about LaN

Passionately forwarding distributed & diverse design education and practice…

• // LaN directs global workshops on digital design + fabrication in architecture for academics & professional practice.  LaN trains emerging software & technologies delivering application strategies while maintaining a theoretical perspective.
  

• // LaN  connects designers to fabrication resources internationally.  LaN translates industry expertise to a designer frame of mind.
  

• // LaN experiments to prove the value of building firms to invest in temporal project development teams for  project-specific aspects integrating academic minds & professional experience.

• // LaN  produces via 3d parametric modeling, a design mindset in congruence with automated fabrication means (cnc milling / laser cutting / 3d printing). We find creative potential in limitations of time economy & materiality through data-driven form.

• //   LaN mobilizes education.  LaN curates experiences with leading people & real worthwhile spaces. And dreams of a partnership with Virgin Airlines to ensure education moves with a 2012+ pace.

LaN approaches architectural development through interdisciplinary collaborations enabled by DIGITAL DESIGN + FABRICATION. LaN recognizes the power of digital fabrication, not merely as a toolset of a high technical caliber, but as the driver of particular groupings of resources–an organization of human, economic, and material assets–varying widely based on project circumstances. LaN’s mode of operation is PARAMETRIC in nature, and seeks to re-associate architecture with a flexible, collaborative, & data-rich practice of SPATIAL DESIGN.

//  LaN people

• co-founders
• Luis Fraguada / Shane Salisbury / Monika Wittig

• director
• Monika Wittig

• network  _ LaN tutors, initiators & feeders of our forward motion
  
• Mariano Arias-Diez mexico / Carlomaria Ciampoli hong kong / Aaron Willette detroit /  Bianny Poueriet valencia / Ron Shvartsman la /  Filippo Moroni roma / Vittorio Menna Roma  / Stuart Fingerhut la /  Andrea Graziano turin  / Diego Camargo miami  /
  
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  collaborators     LaN likes to keep them close
  
• IAAC – Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia barcelona
• Solido 360 prototyping roma
• Club Workshop denver

• founding inspiration 2007      the catalyst of our compound
• IAAC – Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia -
• Postgraduate studies in Digital Architecture Production Luis / Shane / Monika
  
• Program directed by Marta Malé-Alemany

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• fresh faces    LaN hopes to add these innovators to an upcoming LaN workshop, lecture, en-route experience, virtual mode or otherwise…
• Alessio Erioli / Ari Kardasis /  Skylar Tibbits / Michael Silver / Paul Kassabian / Behrokh Koshnevis / Peter Lu / Erez Ella / Rodrigo Medina / Emmanouil Zaroukas / David Menicovich /

• generous supporters
  
• we thought we loved architecture + technology. we do. although we are amazed more by …. the power of passionate people willing to share their craft, knowledge & personality. for educating and motivating, we are still thinking how to thank you. technology is ever-changing; its the people using tools that shape our world.
  
• 2012 LaN flight EU
• 2011 LaN flight USA east
• 2011 LaN flight USA west
• 2010 LaN flight USA east
• 2008 LaN flight USA east

• www- our world wide web