12.31.2011 - “Twins: Houses in Five Parts” is recognized as #18 of Yatzer’s 50 Most Liked Articles of 2011.
12.30.2011 - “Totems: Silhouettes and Iconographic Pluralism,” an exhibit of proto-architectural towers to open at The Zoellner Arts Center on February 2, 2012.
12.19.2011 - WOJR receives 2011-2012 ACSA Faculty Design Award Honorable Mention for “Twins: Houses in Five Parts.”
11.19.2011 - WOJR work published in SPARK Journal, New Expressions: On Housing.
11.01.2011 - WOJR featured in Schöner Wohnen Magazine.
10.20.2011 - WOJR work published in Zapp Urbanism Journal, No. 25, Storm.
10.15.2011 - William O’Brien Jr. named Klein Visiting Artist at Lehigh University.
10.12.2001 - William O'Brien Jr. interviewed for Código Magazine.
09.26.2011 - WOJR featured on Yatzer.
09.15.2011 - WOJR work published in Testing to Failure: Design and Research in MIT's Department of Architecture.
08.22.2011 - WOJR featured on Fast Company's Co.Design.
08.15.2011 - WOJR featured on designboom.
08.09.2010 - William O'Brien Jr.’s project, “Twins” featured on ArchDaily.
06.22.2011 - William O’Brien Jr. gives Architectural League Prize Lecture at the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery in New York.
06.16.2011 - William O’Brien Jr. is session chair at the ACSA Performative Practices Conference, June 16-18, 2011 in New York.
06.15.2011 - The Architectural League Prize Exhibition opens at the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, Parsons The New School for Design, and will be on show from June 15-July 29, 2011.
04.14.2011 - William O’Brien Jr. receives lifetime nomination for the American Institute of Architects Young Architects Award.
03.31.2011 - William O’Brien Jr. is awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts in support of the book project, “Cycles,” to be published in 2012.
02.26.2011 - William O’Brien Jr. wins the 2011 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects & Designers, themed “It’s Different.”
06.30.2010 - MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program Exhibition opens at The Museum of Modern Art featuring William O’Brien Jr.’s proposal “Weathers Permitting.”
05.01.2010 - The 2010 Design Biennial Boston book is released featuring several of William O’Brien Jr.’s design projects.
04.30.2010 - The 2010 Design Biennial Boston exhibition opens at pinkcomma gallery.
04.30.2010 - William O'Brien Jr.’s project, “Allandale House” featured on ArchDaily.
04.05.2010 - William O’Brien Jr. selected as one of five recipients of the 2010 Design Biennial Boston Award.
01.30.2010 - William O’Brien Jr. to participate in panel discussion, “ARCHITECTURALLY.../” at the Hendershot Gallery in New York.
01.26.2010 - William O'Brien Jr.’s MoMA PS1 proposal, “Weathers Permitting” featured on ArchDaily.
12.01.2009 - William O’Brien Jr. is selected as a Finalist for the 2010 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program.
11.06.2009 - William O’Brien Jr. wins Rotch Travelling Scholarship to fund “CYCLES | Geological and Cultural Resonances along Iceland’s Golden Circle,” an options-level graduate design studio to be held at MIT this spring.
11.01.2009 - “Experts in Expediency,” an essay by William O’Brien Jr. published in Log 17 - The Superficial Issue, guest-edited by Mark Foster Gage and Florencia Pita.
10.20.2009 - William O’Brien Jr. presents “Approaching Irreducible Formations,” at the ACADIA 09: reForm() conference hosted by The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.