[1][2][3] After founding WAI Architecture Think Tank in 2008, Cruz García and Nathalie Frankowski relocated their practice to Beijing in 2009.
[4][5][6][7][8] WAI Architecture Think Tank has been selected as finalist in several museum design competitions, including the shortlisted design for the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, in Moscow, Russia and the Museum of Gardens in Suzhou.
[12][13] In 2014 Pure Hardcore Icons was translated into German and published by the quarterly magazine ARCH+.
[14] Since 2008 WAI Architecture Think Tank founders Cruz García and Nathalie Frankowski have been collaborating on the art collective Garcia Frankowski, creating exhibitions, curatorial projects and publications including the book Shapes, Islands, Texts: A Garcia Frankowski Manifesto.
The work of WAI Think Tank has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester and in St. Petersburg, Moscow, New York, Los Angeles, Columbus, Chicago, Michigan, Barcelona, Madrid, Bratislava, Buenos Aires, Zurich, Basel, San Juan, Montevideo, Guadalajara, London, Manchester Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Osaka, Milan, Venice, Istanbul, Prague, Helsinki, Paris, Zurich, Sydney, Melbourne, Lisbon and Porto.