Together with her husband Shu Wang, Wenyu Lu founded Amateur Architecture Studio in 1997. There are three significant periods in her career, Firstly is the design of the first and second phases of the Xiangshan Campus of the China Academy of Art, which she designed with her husband Shu Wang from 2001 to 2007, using the typical Chinese colours of the south of the Yangtze River – green bricks and white tiles – and an unconventional architectural form with a varied exterior and interconnected interior spaces using corridors. The second is the Ningbo History Museum, designed also with her husband from 2003 to 2008, which features a large number of recycled materials, such as old bricks and tiles, and uses antique design ideas combined with reinforced concrete to create a tiled wall with Chinese characteristics. This building has made their amateur architecture studio known and has gained some international attention. Thirdly, the Ningbo Art Museum, completed in 2005, is a typical transformation of an industrial landscape building, originally located in the disused shipping building of Ningbo Port on the riverside, and features public spaces stacked on top of each other, starting at ground level and bifurcating upwards to form a kind of rhizomatic labyrinth structure.