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)                             Giuseppe Lignano (Italy)                   Virginie Stolz (France)


            Reza Zia (Iran)                                  Tala Salman (Lebanon)                       Hector Song (China)


            Manolo Freneix (France)             Maya Luthra (England)                     Thomas de Monchaux (US)