Johan Wijesinghe
The field of architecture is advancing at an incredible pace. Today's architects are no longer constrained by location, time, or events, thanks to the abundance of information available to them. Instead, they play a vital role in shaping communities, politics, the economy, culture, and the environment, utilizing new tools like computation, materiality, and social intervention.

My name is Johan Wijesinghe, and I'm a designer and researcher at LEVER Architecture in Los Angeles and Portland. Prior to joining LEVER, I worked with the Gilles Retsin Architecture in London, where I collaborated on various competitions and pavilions, including the Invisible Landscapes III - Real Virtuality exhibit at the British Royal Academy. While working with Escher GuneWardena in Los Angeles also contributed to cultural art productions such as The Jewelled Isle exhibition at LACMA and Flora Animalia's Studio, as well as various historic conservation projects .

I hold a Bachelor of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc) and an MSc in Architecture and Computation from the University College London. During my studies, I participated in several installation and outreach programs, including the Central Hub for the Opera "Hopscotch," the Pop Arch workshop at Inner-City Arts Los Angeles, and the Augmented Timber Construction at Tong-Ji University in Shanghai. I was also part of Kazuyo Sejima's project for redeveloping Inujima, which was showcased at the 15th Venice Biennale.