What if architecture, informed by scientific inquiry and imagination, could redefine our understanding of the built world? Founded by Chris Bosse, Alexander Rieck, and Tobias Wallisser, LAVA is a laboratory network that explores and innovates through architecture. Since its inception in 2007, LAVA has evolved into a global network that spans cultures and disciplines, with studios in Berlin, Ho Chi Minh, Stuttgart, and Sydney. In an era of technological disruption and environmental flux, we leverage advanced digital tools, speculative thought, research, and knowledge from many regions and customs to address complex architectural spaces with resource efficiency.

Embracing a symbiotic philosophy and an integrative vision of life, LAVA recognizes the human habitat as an extension of the landscape that considers its larger ecological conditions. This ethos fosters the design of synergetic spaces that nurture well-being and meaningful interaction—spaces that inspire harmony, creativity, and a sense of community. Our design process engages with contemporary challenges, revealing architecture's ability to respond to the 'flowing lava' of spatial and social intricacies. By reconciling human needs with environmental imperatives, LAVA co-shapes the dynamic ecosystems of a planet striving for balance. To us, every building is an opportunity to recast architecture as a culture that inspires the evolution of a built environment that is both progressive and enduring. LAVA was awarded the European Prize for Architecture as a practice that has “changed and challenged the direction of contemporary architecture.” For more information about us, please visit l-a-v-a.com.