About

W. W. Designs, Inc. was founded by Mr. Wister Wenbing Wu in 1998. Over the course of a professional career spanning more than forty years, Mr. Wu has designed a wide range of projects. His design works and competition entries—whether completed as lead designer or as a key team member—have received approximately sixty design awards. These include multiple Excellent Architectural Design Awards from China’s Ministry of Construction and Ministry of Education, the Zhejiang Provincial Excellent Architectural Design Award, Excellence in Design Awards from the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Interior Designers, and numerous honors from international design competitions. During the past two and a half years alone, Mr. Wu has received nineteen international design awards.

Mr. Wu’s work has been featured in prominent professional publications, including Forty Years of Chinese Architecture: Selected Excellent Architectural Designs, Architectural Record China, Architectural Journal, Architecture of Twentieth-Century China, and 101 Best New Buildings in the World.

Mr. Wu graduated from Zhejiang University in 1984 and subsequently joined the university’s Architectural Design and Research Institute (UAD), where he served successively as Project Architect, Project Manager, and Deputy Director of an Architectural Design Studio. In late 1989, he enrolled at the University of Oklahoma, where he earned a Master of Architecture degree in 1992.

His professional experience in the United States includes serving as an Architectural Designer at the renowned architecture and engineering firm HTB, as well as Senior Designer, Director of International Development, and Executive Vice General Manager at the prominent architecture and engineering firm FSB. He also served for several years as a visiting design critic and adjunct instructor at the University of Oklahoma College of Architecture. He currently serves as a member of the Planning and Design Committee of the Global Forum on Human Settlements.