Founded by Puerto Rican designer, artist, curator, educator, author, and theorist Cruz Garcia and French designer, artist, curator, educator, author, and poet Nathalie Frankowski, WAI Architecture Think Tank is invested in the development of design experiments and new curricula that support public engagement with the built, destroyed, and imagined environments. Practicing with their child Ema Yuizarix, WAI is one of several platforms of public engagement that include the alternative trade school LOUDREADERS and the anti-disciplinary collective Post-Novis.
Their work has been part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial and exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou Metz, Neues Museum Nuremberg, Museum of Modern Art New York, and the Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology Lisbon.
They are authors of The Pocket Universal Principles of Architecture; Universal Principles of Architecture: 100 Archetypes, Methods, Conditions, Relationships, and Imaginaries; A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education, Narrative Architecture: A Kynical Manifesto, Pure Hardcore Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture; and editors of Reparations! (Journal of Architectural Education), Networks of Solidarity (InForma Journal), The Planetary Wretched: A Post-Colonial Narrative Architecture Poetry Book, and From LandGrab to LandBack / LandBack Landscape Poems.