Works Progress Architecture is a progressive architectural design studio with offices in Portland and Los Angeles. Carrie Strickland, FAIA, launched W.PA in 2005. W.PA has since established a design approach rooted in clear conceptual diagrams applied across a wide spectrum of project types while responding to the unique qualities of the Northwest. W.PA’s approach walks a line between sexy and stern and echoes simplicity in the face of ever evolving complexity; a quiet amid the cacophony of the newest desires.

Over the past 14 years, W.PA has been presented with more than 35 design awards and has been lauded on a national scale for their work and contributions to design; including the AIA NW&P Emerging Firm Award in 2013, a place in Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard publication, the Sustainability in Design award from the AIA, as well as the Progressive Architecture award in 2010.

We work to find the simplicity in things; for in that simplicity there will be an economy of means, and in that economy there is often a truth. And in that truth, there can be a profound beauty.