
A vision for a future where nature and built environment grow together. (Published in CityVisionMag Issue#3) Quito, Ecuador | Thursday, January 14th | 2121 More than a century after the initial dream of MIT architect Mitchell Joachim and his team at Media Lab’s Smart Cities group; the EIT (Ecuador Institute of Technology) discovered the secret [...]

Project Architect: Quim Girbau & Neus Mateu Design Consultation and Fabrication: Medio Design Parametric Design and Geometry Consultation: Luis E. Fraguada – LaN This project for the design the UDON Chueca restaurant in Madrid was recently completed by Arquitects Quim Girbau & Neus Mateu. Medio Design and LaN collaborated on the ceiling which traverses the [...]

Collaborative Cloud is an installation which investigates distributed and decentralized design and fabrication. The interface (in the link above) allows you to design and give information to a piece of the cloud, thus anyone can participate in the project’s growth over the next 8 months. The physical construction will take place at the Disseny Hub [...]

Photos By Tom Verebes These images show a recent collaboration between Ocean CN, Crystal Design, and LaN for the Hong Kong – Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale 2009. LaN was asked to develop a custom user interface for an associative urban model in order to provide visitors to the biennale with the experience of designing their own [...]

Thank you to Andrea Graziano and Davide del Giudice for their invitation to participate in the aast/// advanced architecture settimo tokyo exhibition. As LaN, we presented our global distribution and activities as a departure from the conventional concept of an architectural office. Samples of three projects were provided in the form of STL models which [...]

‘Vertical Neighborhood’ MoMA Tower Proposal July 2009 PARAMETRIC CONSULTATION NEW YORK TOWER PROPOSAL Vertical Neighborhood is a mixed Use New York high rise scheme conceived by the New York based architecture Firm – Axis Mundi with Parametric modeling and digital design by Live Architecture Network members Carlo Ciampoli and James Coleman. “A more diverse, complex, [...]

ARCHEOGRAPHY IV April 30 2009 – June 30 2009 Live Architecture Network with Biba Bell SUPERFRONT architecture gallery and project space is proud to present ARCHEOGRAPHY IV, a performative installation produced in conjunction with Movement Research Festival 2009: ROLL CALL. The exhibition features new works of architecture and performance conceived collaboratively by Live Architecture Network [...]

Project Credits: TUTORS | LaN Live Architecture Network: Luis Fraguada, Shane Salisbury, Monika Wittig MSU GRAD STUDENTS | Andy Brandt, Seth Burwash, Katherine Carey, Audya Darmawan, Nathan French, Shawn Gould, Michael Somerfeld, Ron Shvartsman, ShandraWeaver, Adam Zetterquist FABRICATION CONSULTANT | Bill Clinton
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Denver Int’l Airport Emerging Artist Program Winners Announced Denver, Colorado; May 2008 – Denver International Airport (DIA) and the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs (DOCA) announced the winners of their Emerging Artist Program in its inaugural year. The commission called for a temporary installation in the highway median en route to Denver’s International Airport. The [...]

UPT | Urban Purifier Towers LaN associate CarloMaria Ciampoli toughts on urban ecosystems, vertical structures and the equilibrium between built and unbuilt environments. By 2030, 80% of the world’s population is going to inhabit mega cities. Our need to understand the meaning and the dynamics of urban ecosystems has become paramount to our survival. Envisioning [...]

LaN co-director Luis Fraguada produced a set of pieces in collaboration with Nuru Karim[LIVE] for an exhibition called ‘Relative Visa’ held in Mumbai. The main idea was to develop a physical resonance in response to the brief of the exhibition and also to forward LaN’s 2009 agenda of SOUND. A script was written which takes [...]