The MassArt Department of Architecture invites you to join the Fall 2024 Tuesday Talks Speaker Series featuring LOT-EK, at 4:00pm on Thursday*, September 12 at the Design and Media Center Lecture Hall. 

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.

Image: Drivelines Studios, LOT-EK was commissioned by Propertuity to design a live-work building with ground floor retail in the Maboneng Precinct in Johannesburg. 

This event is free and open to the public.

The Tuesday Talks series was first established in 2008 by MassArt's Architecture program. This visiting lecture series brings a wide range of design professionals who are engaged in creative endeavors to our community of students, staff, faculty and guests.

*Please note this LOT-EK Tuesday talk is being held on Thursday 09/12.