Works Progress Architecture is an innovative architectural design studio with offices in Portland and Los Angeles. Formed in 2005, W.PA has established a design approach rooted in clear conceptual 

responses to each projects site, program, and environmental requirements. W.PA s approach integrates extensive experience across a wide spectrum of project types, producing evocative and 

conceptually clear designs, threading a line between specificity and self-evident expression.



We have embraced a methodology that operates within the dimension of traditional architecture and a shared human experience. The simplest of gestures can describe the most ambitious of structures.



We continue the search for an expression based on a common denominator, a collective sensory empathy. We believe that there is a meaningful truth held within collective understanding.



We advocate for simplicity in the face of ever evolving complexity, for quiet amid the cacophony of the newest.



When a simple but comprehensive analogous construct evolves from an architectural program and is portrayed candidly, it can convey a deeper cultural and universally humanistic meaning.