Why LPA?
We integrate strategy, design and construction action
We at LPA understand urban design and planning as the spatial and territorial codification of a previously defined strategy. Our vision is that this strategy should be defined within the inclusive framework of sustainable development, and must set the vision and actions for a desired and feasible future. This strategy should be defined at the level of economic, environmental and social dimensions…
We integrate strategy, design and construction action
We at LPA understand urban design and planning as the spatial and territorial codification of a previously defined strategy. Our vision is that this strategy should be defined within the inclusive framework of sustainable development, and must set the vision and actions for a desired and feasible future. This strategy should be defined at the level of economic, environmental and social dimensions…
We think and design implementing the principles of living systems
LPA is an urban and landscape development firm practicing strategic planning, urban design, landscape architecture and infrastructure design. What distinguishes LPA is that it operates under the principles and methodologies of an emerging disciplinary trend called bio-urbanism. This alternative mode of practice understands reality and the territory as a complex and living organism in a continuous exchange of materials, energy, and information with its surroundings…
We are experts in subtropical life and its dynamics
LPA has focused its professional action in a particular bio-regional condition: the subtropical south, and its singular natural and cultural conditions. This geography of cities and territories are linked by a common climate regime: the subtropics. In contrast with other interpretations of the term regionalism, we support the idea of a “grand regionalism of regions classified by climates,” as the architect and urbanist Josep Lluís Sert claimed…
We are equipped with cutting-edge computational technologies
Urban landscapes have become a complex matrix of information and relationships. As a result, reality cannot be addressed (and designed) as a fixed entity, but as a living organism in continuous evolution by feedback processes. This new complex and dynamic condition has forced planning and design practices to modelling systems and patterns, rather than fixed entities. In this new scenario, the mediation of digital (intelligent) technologies has become a critical issue…
We are equipped with cutting-edge computational technologies
Urban landscapes have become a complex matrix of information and relationships. As a result, reality cannot be addressed (and designed) as a fixed entity, but as a living organism in continuous evolution by feedback processes. This new complex and dynamic condition has forced planning and design practices to modelling systems and patterns, rather than fixed entities. In this new scenario, the mediation of digital (intelligent) technologies has become a critical issue…
Strategy + Design + Construction
Urban and territorial development has become a complex enterprise where strategic and technical aspects intermingled from the very beginning of the Project. With the idea of managing this new professional and cultural condition, LPA has set out three professional divisions: LPA Strategy, LPA Design and LPA Construction. The combination of these three divisions enables LPA to envision the whole process of development…
