Laboratory for Visionary Architecture


Laboratory for Visionary Architecture is an architectural firm set up in 2007. Its stated goal is to combine digital workflow, nature’s structural principles and the latest digital fabrication technologies to build MORE WITH LESS: more with less. It was awarded the 2016 European Architecture Laureate for "a more critical, intellectual, and artistic approach to the design of buildings and cities" by the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design.

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LAVA takes their inspiration from nature, using the principle of biomimetics. Future technologies are merged with the patterns of organisation found in nature to build a smarter, friendlier, more socially and environmentally responsible future. LAVA uses computation to simulate the natural behavior of growth and adaptation of species.
It maintains offices in Stuttgart, Berlin, and Sydney. The group has three directors, Tobias Wallisser is based in Berlin, Alexander Rieck is based in Stuttgart while Chris Bosse is based in Sydney.

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