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systems has been the basis of projects at all scales. Committed to ecologically-responsible, intelligent methods of building, LOT-EK’s focus is to bring new life to industrial objects, and to preserve and honor the intelligence and history that went into their development. They specialize in inadvertent elegance and unexpected beauty, in bringing together old and new, generic and specific, natural and artificial, local and global, familiar and strange, "we seek to show how the ordinary can be extraordinary".
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After successfully submitting their dissertation in Italy, Ada and
Giuseppe founded a studio in Naples. On the basis of their work, as well as introductions during their time at Columbia, Ada and Giuseppe began receiving commissions in the US. In 1995, they decided to open another studio in New York
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LOT-EK’s ongoing research has focused on man-made objects and systems and the way they proliferate, accumulate, overlap and interfere with the built, and natural, environment around the globe. LOT-EK’s sustainable approach to construction through the adaptive reuse of existing industrial objects and
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Over the years, LOT-EK has collaborated with various artists, designers, and institutions to create spaces that blur the lines between architecture, art, and functionality. These collaborations have resulted in innovative installations and spaces that serve multiple purposes and engage with their
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They also lecture at universities and cultural institutions in the US and abroad, and have presented at conferences and meetings about sustainability and the built environment, including the Holcim Forum on
Sustainability 2010 (Mexico City), and the Kyoto Institute of Technology (Kyoto, Japan),
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In addition to utilizing containers as building blocks for architecture, LOT-EK has upcycled other objects – including truck bodies, airplane fuselages, and reclaimed wood or steel doors – as structural interventions to design buildings and interiors. Their stated goal is to not only recycle an
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Ada and
Giuseppe traveled extensively throughout the United States upon finishing architecture studies in Italy. Inspired by the American landscape – both natural and urban – they won a scholarship to conduct post-graduate work at Columbia University. This allowed them to experience both the
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LOT-EK is a design studio based in New York, known for its innovative approach to architecture and design through the adaptive reuse of industrial materials. Founded in 1993 by
Italian architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano, LOT-EK has been involved in a wide range of projects, including
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each have a master's degree 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). In addition to heading LOT-EK, they currently teach at Columbia University, Graduate School of
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experimental academic environment of
Columbia, as well as the urban complexity of New York City. The work they produced during that year was compiled in a book, which served as the foundation of the primary idea behind LOT-EK as a design studio.
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residential, commercial, and institutional projects both in the US and internationally. LOT-EK has also undertaken projects for major cultural institutions and museums, such as MoMA, the
Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim, the MAXXI and many more.
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City, and secured a loft in the then raw and unglamorous Meat
Packing District. This further established their practice as a hands-on, artistic investigation into the creative reclaiming of the industrial and man-made.
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As a studio, LOT-EK is committed to ecologically responsible and intelligent methods of building. They have built a critical architectural practice through research into the
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TOLEDO ART FIELD, permanent light installation, commission: Toledo Arts Commission with Inbar Barak
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