You know John Wong’s work even if you don’t. You’ve seen it if you’ve ever visited the Stanford University campus, where over a span of 30 years Wong has evolved and modernized Frederick Law Olmsted’s historic landscape. Or if you’ve stumbled upon Tulsa’s Guthrie Green, an urban park and outdoor amphitheater that supplies district heating and cooling to the surrounding buildings. Or if you’ve ever seen Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, in which Tom Cruise is framed by the elliptical landforms of Wong’s groundscape as the actor scales the Burj Khalifa.
Wong is a design principal in SWA’s Sausalito office, where he has worked since 1978. His
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