At the vanguard of a nonconformist and inventive new generation in architecture, LAVA bridges the gap between the future and the real world.
At the time LAVA was founded in 2007, each of the three directors, Chris Bosse, Alexander Rieck and Tobias Wallisser, had already gathered extensive experience in practice, research and teaching.
Bosse and Wallisser met at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2004 where two projects they had designed won awards (the Mercedes-Benz Museum and the Beijing Watercube). Rieck’s groundbreaking work as senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Occupational Economics and Organisation in Stuttgart was a perfect fit for their goals.
Right from the beginning the target was to embark on a new architectural approach whilst learning from each other’s experience and expertise.
Alexander Rieck brings vital knowledge of innovations in the fields of working environments and building processes of the future. Tobias Wallisser researches and teaches cutting edge, digital planning technologies as Professor of Digital Design at the Academy of Arts in Stuttgart. Chris Bosse bases his work on the computerised study of organic structures and resulting spatial conceptions.
LAVA operates as a unique think tank with about 30 staff in branches placed strategically worldwide - Sydney, Shanghai, Stuttgart and Abu Dhabi. LAVA operates on a ‘augmented network office’ platform, a mobile and highly flexible network of specialist designers, collaborators and external consultants. Directors Tobias Wallisser and Alexander Rieck are based in Stuttgart/Berlin and Chris Bosse is based in Sydney.
At the time LAVA was founded in 2007, each of the three directors, Chris Bosse, Alexander Rieck and Tobias Wallisser, had already gathered extensive experience in architectural practice, research and teaching.
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