STUDIO
LOT-EK
is a team of architects, thinkers, and makers. They gather around their love of
people and objects—all things made, unmade, seen, unseen, dismissed. LOT-EK
upcycles. LOT-EK makes sustainable, soulful architecture through the transformation
of industrial infrastructural objects and systems. They work with the ordinary.
LOT-EK’s
projects range from artists’ installations with artists; through families’
houses families; through communities’ cultural projects, civic institutions,
and museums. LOT-EK’s practice has developed work from their hometown of New
York City around the world, from Australia, through China to South Africa.
LOT-EK’s
team is a tight-knit group of designers who bring their diverse voices, sensibilities,
and heritages to this common project. LOT-EK’s founding partners, Ada Tolla and
Giuseppe Lignano, live and work in New York; grew up in Naples, Italy; teach at
Columbia University’s GSAPP; and have been practicing together since 1993.
LOT-EK’s
work has been recognized by awards and accolades, from the Architecture
League’s Emerging Voices, to The New York American Institute of Architects
(AIA) Honor Awards; and is featured in the permanent collection of the Museum
of Modern Art. LOT-EK’s second monograph, in collaboration with Thomas de
Monchaux and published by The Monacelli Press, is O+O: Objects +
Operations.
LOT-EK SCANS THE PLANET FOR MANMADE OBJECTS
LOT-EK UPCYCLES OBJECTS THROUGH TRANSFORMATIVE OPERATIONS
TEAM
Ada Tolla (Italy), architect
Giuseppe Lignano, (Italy) architect
Virginie Stolz (France), architect
Tala Salman (Lebanon), architect+designer
Reza Zia (Iran), architect
Hector Song (China), architect
Thomas de Monchaux (US) architect+writer+critic
Maya Luthra (England), social media manager