Laa Architecture

30/03/2026

Happy extended evenings! What do you think about British Summer Time? Do you enjoy it, or would you prefer to keep the same time year-round?

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

23/03/2026

Sometimes, the reasons to keep a television at home simply fade away.

18/03/2026

Allow passersby to recognise the team behind the project. Is displaying the RIBA banner an effective method to promote your practice? Let us know your thoughts.

17/03/2026

AI has become a pervasive subject; everyone is discussing and sharing opinions about it.

A recent Anthropic paper highlights AI’s impact on the labour market, though given the fast pace of this technology’s evolution, the timing of this “future” remains unclear.

We made this video t to help start a discussion on this topic (and, to be honest, also to test our skills with the tool).

Do you have a clearer perspective on this topic than we do?

23/02/2026

The aerial spaces, the green and the blue, the wind and the sun. It’s difficult to capture Salento’s essence in a few lines or in a single architecture. This video offers a glimpse of our exciting journey through this project. The rest cannot be told on paper or, more precisely, on screen. You must take the long way there to truly taste the magic and take it back with you.

Salento is one of the most charming areas in southern Italy, renowned for its beautiful sea, baroque architecture and hundred years old olive trees. The orig...

29/01/2026

Elevation study for a hotel project, or how you make a massive facade look domestic by exploring rhythm, materiality, and a sense of quiet permanence.

16/12/2025

Another passing year, watching the world turning into a dark place, the darkest our generation has ever experienced.
Looking at what once was a civilisation losing its sense of history, and all those tragic lessons we should have learned from the past, sadly forgotten.
Another passing year observing the planet disintegrating because we can't, or we don't want, or choose not to act.
Stealing the future from the youth generations, whether due to unwillingness, ignorance, or laziness.
Another passing year where we stubbornly try to turn mirrors into windows, looking for a word that humanity seems to have obliterated:
Empathy.
We wish you all a peaceful Holiday Season
So the next one won't be just "another passing year".

27/10/2025

Wrapped in the softness of the "brouillard des Alpes vaudoises", our second Swiss chalet stripped itself of the scaffolding, clearly revealing its shape for the first time. The windows will be installed before Christmas, enabling us to continue working inside throughout the winter.

23/10/2025

We live in the digital age, and we're becoming digital beings living digital lives. However, there are still particular areas where analogue communication is the only way forward: a few reminders written on a piece of plasterboard provisionally fixed to the wooden structure, a couple of calculations scribbled on columns, a doodle scrawled on a strut - the building site, a free zone for analogue communication.

28/07/2025

To be a good architect, or a decent one at least, you have to hone and develop the art of listening, a skill that is more and more difficult to find nowadays.

You must listen to your clients, what their desires and ambitions are, where their goals and needs lie. How do they live and how do the people they love. How they interact and socialise, what's their relationship with the clouds above them and the rain outside their window.

You must listen and remain silent for as long as possible, concentrating on their words, because the architecture you'll produce will be none other than the clothing that will dress their dreams.

30/06/2025

What is experience? It is that knowledge that everyone acquires through studying, working, and living the good and bad in life. It increases with the passage of years; the more it gets richer and more extensive, the more life is wearing thin.

All your expertise, if kept inside your secret box of life, is something that won't help anyone else but you; it could turn into merely a personal point of pride or a trivial market asset. If we don't partake in it, it "will be lost in time like tears in the rain".

It has been a while since I started with the opportunity to share my professional experience with young students at the University of Westminster by working with them as a mentor.

The most engaging part about mentoring is what I can learn from the younger generations.

I had the honour of working with some incredibly bright people who helped me open a window into their world and life perspectives, allowing me to understand what the young generations of architects are concerned about, what they expect, and what their dreams are - dreams that we should help them realise.

The Future Ready Mentoring Awards Celebration was a great moment to share our experiences, engage in insightful conversations, learn from one another, and, why not, enjoy some delicious food accompanied by a sip of red wine.

Thanks again to the Future Ready mentoring scheme for this opportunity; it has made, and continues to make me a better person.

05/06/2025

I've been asked several times what an architect does and whether we really need architects.
"Is it not architecture an expensive, unnecessary extravagance?"

The answer is that there are multiple answers.

No, we don't need architects; they are superfluous figures who simply exist to discuss how to organise a space and select materials, reflecting on the principles of Vitruvian proportion and the historical contexts of buildings from different eras.

No, we don't need architects, as a kitchen extension is essentially a cube added to another cube, and a loft conversion is merely a triangular prism applied on another—something we commonly refer to as a roof.

No, we don't need architects, just as we don't need psychologists, relationship therapists, sociologists, or anthropologists because, at our core, human beings are simply a collection of vital organs functioning together.

Here lies the essential point, then: once a human body is mechanically able to function, what governs its perception of the world or its relationships with other human beings?

A building is like a living organism among others; it must adhere to specific rules providing the backdrop for the lives of people in a city, village, or hamlet.

While a badly executed painting may only affect those who gaze upon it, a poorly designed building can disrupt the entire community that interacts with it for years to come.

Moreover, a building serves as an envelope containing various spaces, each designated for different activities at different times of the day and across the seasons.

These spaces exist in a delicate balance, and when this balance is disrupted, it can have a profoundly negative impact on the daily lives and moods of their inhabitants for years.

So, yes, we need architects because a kitchen extension is not just a cube, a loft conversion is not just a triangular prism, and a building is not just a random object placed in a vacant plot.

What do you think about this? Are architects necessary, or can we live without them?