Jenny Wu

Robert Garland Treseder Fellow 2022 / Co-director, Oyler Wu Collaborative Inc. / Faculty, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI_Arc)

Jenny Wu

Jenny is the founder and principal of the Los Angeles based architecture firm, Oyler Wu Collaborative. The firm is recognized for its innovative designs that span multiple scales and project types, ranging from small scale urban activations to large scale infrastructural projects. Her office was the winner of 2013 Design Vanguard Award from Architectural Record, 2018 ACADIA Digital Practice Award of Excellence, 2017 The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize recipient, and most recently the 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. Their recent projects include the competition winning entry for the Cold War Veterans Memorial in Wisconsin and the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan, The Exchange for Exhibit Columbus, the Los Angeles River Greenway/Bikeway project, and The Monarch Tower in Taipei, Taiwan. In addition to her architectural practice, she also founded LACE by Jenny Wu, a line of 3D printed fine jewelry in 2014. Since its launch in 2014, LACE has been widely featured in publications such as Forbes, Fast Company, Los Angeles Times, etc. Her work, the Catena Necklace in steel, was recently acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in their permanent collection. Jenny is a senior design faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and has previously taught at various other institutions such as Harvard Graduate School of Design and Columbia GSAPP.

Session:

Keynote 1: Inlays, Loose Fits, and Other Puzzling Forms of Assembly