LOT-EK

Objects + Operations

• Author(s): Ada Tolla, Giuseppe Lignano, Thomas de Monchaux,
• Publisher: Monacelli Press
• Pages: 400
• ISBN_10: 1580934838
  ISBN_13: 9781580934831
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / Monographs , Architecture / Methods & Materials , Architecture / Adaptive Reuse & Renovation ,

Description:... LOT-EK is a design practice that believes in being unoriginal, ugly, and cheap. Also in being revolutionary, gorgeous, and completely luxurious. LOT-EK’s work reveals extraordinary transformations of ordinary things—from their famous shipping container projects onward—combining maker culture and hacker culture into beautiful and radical visions for sustainable and meaningful living. LOT-EK: Objects + Operations surveys dozens of projects—built, unbuilt and in-progress; polemical, practical, and in-between—complemented by photographs from LOT-EK’s multi-year URBAN SCAN project, a vast photographic document of infrastructure and incident, as well as essays by Thomas de Monchaux and interviews with founding partners Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano.