The act of making architecture is the act of communicating to the body, mind, and place. It is the choreography of the delicate relationship between art and shelter, the translation of function into poetry. The process is one of synthesizing all thoughts and observations into an essence that can unlock an expanding consciousness about our present, while simultaneously engaging memories of our past and visions of our future.

The goal is to create a life of balance
- In the Balance.

LI WEN AIA 1039 Elkgrove Ave. #4 Venice California 90291 310-450-2810

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WORKS______________________________________
AZ Productions - Los Angeles, CA (1998)
House and Guest House - Santa Maria, CA (1992)
Garage - Southbury, CT (1990)
House/Gallery - Southbury, CT (1986)

exhibitions: UCLA Extension Faculty Show - group
exhibition: UCLA Extension Gallery (1997)
1996 LA AIA Awards - travelling group
exhibition (1997)
Ten Years Out - group exhibition: Yale
Art and Architecture Gallery (1995)
WHITE-LINING: Steering between fantasy
and reality - solo exhibition: Form Zero Gallery (1994)

EDUCATION__________________________________
master of architecture: Yale University, School of Architecture, New Haven, CT (1988)

bachelor of arts:Wesleyan University, Middletown,
CT (1984) with high honors Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York, NY

Undergraduate Certificate (1983)
Beijing University, Beijing, People's Republic of China Literature Certificate (1979-1980)
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Graphic Art Certificate (1978)

OTHER______________________________________
symposium director: Developing the American City: Society
and Architecture in the Regional City Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT (1987)
guest design critic:Architectural Studio: USC, UCLA, Cal
Poly Pomona guest lecturer: Visual Studies: UCLA Extension (1996-97)

HONORS_____________________________________
The LA AIA Next/LA Award - Theoretical Citation for the Shower-Truck,1996
The Eero Saarinen Memorial Scholarship - Yale, 1988
Board of Alderman Citation - For the symposium Developing the American City: Society and Architecture in the Regional City, 1987

publications:LA Architecture Forum: spring 1997
San Francisco Vision: 1993 LA Times: 12/24/96
Architecture: 8/88 LA Architect: 1996

Li Wen

born: 1961 in Philadelphia, PA; moved to Santa Barbara, CA in 1963.
registered:1991 - State of California

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EXPERIENCE_______________________________
project designer: DMJMKeating/Keating Mann
Jernigan Rottet- Los Angeles, CA (1990-present)

LAPD 911 Communications Dispatch
Center - Los Angeles, CA

BMC Software Headquarters, Phase II -
Houston, TX
10100 Santa Monica Blvd. Renovation -
Los Angeles, CA

Tokyo Electron America Headquarters -
Austin, TX

INS Administration
Building & Checkpoint Canopies - San Clemente, CA

First Interstate Bank (now Wells
Fargo) - Marina Del Rey, CA

designer: Jean Nouvel, Emmanuel Cattani & associes
- Paris, France (1989)

Opera de Lyon - Lyon, France: Fixed
furniture; auditorium plaster shell.
Foster Associates - London,
England (1988)

Stansted Airport - London,
England: Concourse Cabin cladding and structure.
design assistant:Gwathmey Siegel & Associates -
New York, NY (1987)

1585 Broadway Office Tower - New
York, NY: Lobby floor and window wall.
Roth & Moore Architects - New
Haven, CT (1986)

Audubon Court Office Building -
New Haven, CT
Hardy, Holzman, Pfeiffer &
Associates - New York, NY (1983)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Los Angeles, CA

research assistant: SITE inc. - New York, NY (1984)
De-Architecture - the book.intern: Skidmore Owings & Merrill - New York, NY (1978) Interiors Department

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