This collection presents snapshots of our contemporary work environments through an examination of the ways in which architecture and design have conceived the idea of the office and other workspaces since the turn of the 21st Century.
The xLAB Summer Program is a cross-disciplinary catalyst for architectural education that develops strategies for our built environment through experimental exchanges, the testing of ideas, and the sharing of knowledge.
WORKHOUSE: Office of the Future examines the office as an architectural type that is as politically, economically, and culturally charged, as it is technical and tectonic.
The WORKHOUSE Research Studio studies creative workplaces through the analysis of creative offices and coworking spaces.
Each year a new programmatic theme offers a research topic on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Community (2017), Mobility (2018), and […]
While digital tools allowed architects to animate spaces by creating visual dynamism, technology had no significant change to the underlying goals of the architect: however, the thinking about architecture changed,
On July 31, 2017, Greg Lynn gave the Keynote Lecture at the inaugural xLAB Summer Program. The lecture was titled, Localization: Static […]
Cloud of Thoughts is a participatory exhibition and alternative gathering place to meet with other people and exchange ideas about our future built environment.
While it seems that technology, community, and aesthetics are unrelated to each other, architectural aesthetics of each era has developed as representations of technologies of the eras.
The Future Living Project extracts broad but workable themes from an analysis of the Future's long history and configurations of contemporary environments.