ABOUT

Architecture is currently in search of a multidimensional approach to our future environment. As its professional boundaries are expanding into other fields, a new trajectory of the architectural discipline considers the overlaps between physical reality, technology and entertainment.

xLAB is an international think tank initiative that examines architecture’s elastic boundaries and considers new possibilities through interdisciplinary collaboration in the study of the future built environment.

xLAB encourages partnerships with a range of industries-including business, technology and science-creating a vast network of possibilities that expands architecture’s role and potential to serve as an active platform in which to “Research, Test, Share” ideas between fields, people, and places.

 

PEOPLE

  • Hitoshi Abe

    Director
    Professor, UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design
    Principal, Atelier Hitoshi Abe

  • Carlo Sturken

    Program Coordinator
    Researcher, UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design

  • Toshiki Hirano

    Program Coordinator (Tokyo)
    Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo Department of Architecture
    Founder, Toshiki Hirano Design

  • Kaz Yoneda

    Program Coordinator (Tokyo)
    Assistant Professor, Keio University for Architecture and Urban Design
    Principal, Bureau 0-1, Inc.