William Lane

William Lane brings an interdisciplinary perspective to the studio.

His diverse body of work includes both public and private spaces with a particular attention on expressing the potential of the surreal in the city. The iconic Lifeguard Towers for the City of Miami Beach colorfully hover as individualized figures that demarcate the edge between city and ocean. Similarly, his oval antennaed multi-use pavilion at South Pointe Park on Miami Beach tucks itself into a serpentine dune evoking a sea creature’s migration at the bottom of the sea. Lane’s use of narrative is paired equally with an attention to expressive fabrication and detail where all components are considered within a poetic whole.

Prior to him establishing his own practice in 1990, he worked in the studio of artist Dennis Oppenheim in New York, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in London, and I.M. Pei and Partners in New York.

William Lane attended the School of Cinematic Studies at New York University and continued his education in art and architecture at The Cooper Union in New York, and the Architectural Association in London.