What if architecture, informed by scientific inquiry, could spark our imagination and redefine our understanding of the built world? Founded by Chris Bosse, Alexander Rieck, and Tobias Wallisser, LAVA—the Laboratory for Visionary Architecture—is a global network practice that questions, explores, and innovates through architecture.

Since its inception in 2007, the practice has evolved into a global, cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary network with studios in Berlin, Ho Chi Minh City, Stuttgart and Sydney. In an era of digital acceleration and evolving ecosystems, we combine new technologies, speculative explorations, research, and the knowledge of many regions, cultures, and topographies to achieve more progressive space with less material, energy, time, and cost. This approach reveals architecture’s capacity to respond to the ‘flowing lava’ of spatial and social complexities while positively influencing the ever-changing environments of a planet striving for balance.

Embracing a symbiotic philosophy that focuses on an integrative vision of life, where the human habitat is an extension of the landscape, LAVA creates spaces that foster well-being and meaningful interaction—spaces that inspire creativity. Each building emerges as a possibility 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, please visit www.l-a-v-a.com.