[English text below] Joe Sebastian Willendra lahir di Sukabumi, 1978. Ia menempuh pendidikan sarjana di University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Amerika Serikat (AS), dan lulus tahun 2000. Ia kemudian meraih gelar master dari University of California- Los Angeles, AS pada 2004. Joe memulai kariernya di Lieber Cooper Associates, Chicago (2000) dan berlanjut di Skidmore, Owings and Merill (2002), dan Neil M. Denari Architects (NMDA), Los Angeles (2004- 2010). Ia juga pernah bekerja di Atelier Hitoshi Abe pada 2009. Dengan pengalamannya tersebut, Joe kemudian mendirikan bironya sendiri yang bernama W Office (WOFF), tahun 2011.
Berkomitmen pada inovasi desain dan keahlian konstruksi, W Office telah mengerjakan berbagai skala proyek, antara lain Haliman House (Jakarta), Kayu-Kayu (Tangerang), Sama Kamu (Jakarta), dan Melodia Music Showroom (Jakarta). Beberapa di antaranya telah dimuat di publikasi arsitektur, seperti ARCHINESIA #7.
Selain aktif merancang, Joe Sebastian Willendra pernah menjadi pengajar dan dosen tamu di beberapa universitas, seperti Universitas Pelita Harapan, Universitas Tarumanagara, Universitas Podomoro, BINUS University, serta menjadi juri untuk penghargaan Asian Young Designer Award Nippon Paint 2013 – 2018.
Joe Sebastian Willendra was born in Sukabumi, 1978. He studied at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, USA, and graduated in 2000. He then achieved his master’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, in 2004. Joe began his career at Lieber Cooper Associates, Chicago (2000), followed by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (2002), and Neil M. Denari Architects (NMDA), Los Angeles (2004-2010). He also worked as a project designer at Atelier Hitoshi Abe in 2009. With this experience, Joe later established his own firm, W Office (WOFF), in 2011.
Committed to designing innovation and construction expertise, W Office has worked on projects of various scales, including Haliman House (Jakarta), Kayu-Kayu (Tangerang), Sama Kamu (Jakarta), and Melodia Music Showroom (Jakarta). Some of them have been published in architectural publications, such as ARCHINESIA #7.
Besides that, Joe Sebastian Willendra used to be a lecturer and guest lecturer at several universities, such as Pelita Harapan University, Tarumanagara University, Podomoro University, and BINUS University. He also was one of the judges for the 2013 Nippon Paint Asian Young Designer Award Competition.
W Office
Category: Architect
Location: Jakarta
Founded: 2011