LOT-EK founding partners, Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano, have degrees in Architecture and Urban Design from the Universita’ di Napoli, Italy (1989), and have completed post-graduate studies at Columbia University, New York (1990-1991). Besides heading their professional practice, they also teach at Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York and lecture at major universities and cultural institutions throughout the US and abroad.

2003 - present
> COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation - GSAPP

2012
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT - Graduate School of Architecture

2005
> SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, School of Architecture

2000-03 
> PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Architecture Department