2021 - Beom Jun is giving a talk called Space Matters: the Overlooked Importance of Architecture in XR on the importance of architecture in the creation of space in XR on 4.26

2021 - Check out Letícia Wouk Almino’s piece in New York Review of Architecture, “Ballet Ditches Theater, Embraces City”.

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2021 - WA.K Studio is Artist in Residence at Further On (FOAIR) in Amagansett, NY… Check out waks.works for more

2021 - Check out the final reviews for Special Topics: Virtual Augmented & Built Realities at Barnard + Columbia Architecture!

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2020 - WA.K Studio’s Beom Jun Kim will give a lecture as part of the Spitzer School of Architecture’s Lunchtime Lecture Series on 11.6

2020 - WA.K Studio’s Desert Stop-Motion (click to watch!) a film accompanying our competition entry for the Black Rock City Municipal Airport has been published in the latest TRANS-journal issue on the topic of Fiction

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2020 - WA.K Studio has been invited to be competition jurors at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janiero, Brazil. We are honored to be selected among such an esteemed list of architects, thinkers, and educators.

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2020 - Check out Letícia Wouk Almino’s piece in PLAT 9.0 Commit, “Pedregulho and Carmen Portinho: Pioneer of Brazilian Modernism”.

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2020 - Check out Beom Jun’s piece Cannabis Virtualis kicking off CLOG + Cannabis which looks into the hidden reality behind its il-legalization as we navigate today’s opaque process of legalization and access in conjunction with our project for a medicinal marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles.

2019 - Beom Jun’s (Jason’s) final review for his Special Topics in Architecture: Virtual, Augmented & Built Realities at Barnard College

2019 - Check out Letícia Wouk Almino’s piece in PLAT 8.0 Simplicity titled “Plasticity and Influence in 1950s Brazilian Art and Architecture”.

2019 - Beom Jun is teaching the Special Topics in Architecture seminar at Barnard College called Augmented, Virtual, & Built Realities this Fall.

2019 - Beom Jun is coordinating the first year CORE 1 undergraduate studio at CCNY this Fall.

2019 - Beom Jun is teaching the Virtual Reality component of 1019c Visualization & Computation at Yale University this Summer.

2018 - WA.K Studio and WAKS.WORKS was featured on the Apatodeco design blog.

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2014 - WA.K Studio was a finalist and received an honorable mention for their Triangle Fire Memorial competition entry.

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2013 - WA.K Studio was recognized by the Architecture League of New York for their competition entry Unfolly.

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