Dwayne Oyler is the co-founder of Los Angeles design firm Oyler Wu Collaborative. The firm is recognized for its experimentation in design, material research, and fabrication, and has won numerous awards, including 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture, 2017 The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize, and the 2013 Design Vanguard Award from Architectural Record.
Oyler Wu Collaborative approaches architecture with a critical and rigorous intent that challenges the typical vision of the built environment. The office relies on the constant exchange between large architectural proposals and small architectural installations.. Their recent projects include the competition winning entry for the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan, the Los Angeles River Greenway/Bikeway project, The Monarch Tower, a 16 story residential high rise in Taipei, Taiwan, and a finalist for the Cold War Veterans Memorial.
Oyler has worked in the office of Toshiko Mori, and has collaborated with Lebbeus Woods on several projects. In 1996, he was awarded the Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill Traveling Fellowship. Prior to relocating to Los Angeles in 2004, he taught in the Thesis Design Studio program at Cooper Union for the Advancement for Arts and Sciences in New York City. He has also taught at SCI-Arc’s Research Institute for Experimental Architecture in Vico Morcote, Switzerland.
He is a member of the design faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and has previously taught at various other institutions such as Harvard GSD, Pratt Institute, and Columbia GSAPP.
Oyler received a B.Arch. from Kansas State University in 1996 and an M.Arch from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2001.
