Design Philosophy
Lot believes good Architecture and Design refine the experience of being alive.
Aspiring to Enlightened Design tied to place with inspired spaces and detailing, he works with an essentialist design approach based on context, reduction and sensation. Subtle and rich, his architecture is testament to the discipline of pushing simplicity and clarity to their limits.
The designs are a place of reserved theater with a sense of mystery that captures our imagination and holds our attention. The provocative works express the ability to take the everyday and transfigure it into mystical elegance, making it lyrical and sensuous.
Lot strives for beautifully designed solutions that adapt to the surrounding environment, culture, climate and ecosystem. This architectural approach evolves from the principal that each site has a unique context or situation and requires an individual solution to address these parameters.
As the character and climate are very different from one locale to another, Lot believes that these differences lead to distinct solutions that will enhance the qualities of place and create a rich and diverse architectural experience. This includes a strong understanding of designing for urban and rural environments and the stimulating juxtaposition of one upon the other at appropriate junctures. He brings a progressive, and well-traveled, worldview that is essential for creating a strong initial concept based on a design's contextual and cultural influences.
Lot's work can be characterized by experimentation, refined simplicity, and brave dynamic formal solutions. He elegantly weaves the modern with the past, the exquisite with the ordinary and is well versed in a multitude of aesthetic languages. Lot's Architecture plays with the simplification of form, the equilibrium between enhancing the physical tactile properties of materials, and the calibrated rendering of proportions. This essentialist approach to design is visible on a multitude of scales including his furnishing elements, which become a natural complement to the architecture.
Lot provides solutions that are visually engaging while enlisting progressive ideas of architecture and design as a driving force for each project. He is enthusiastically committed to achieving excellence in the pursuit of Art in Design.