Lpa Studio

Building the warm side of sustainable life. Lab for Planning & Architecture (LPA) is a leading planning and design firm focusing on the sustainable and organic urban development of southern regions and territories —the so-called subtropics that feature semi-arid and Mediterranean environmental regimes. l-p-a has a deep commitment to the specific (economic, social and environmental) potentialities of the subtropics, which are deployed in line with the principles and protocols of the philosophy of eco-system thinking. The firm is structured into three divisions that enable the integration of strategic, design and execution phases of the urban development process. With the understanding of urban environments as a complex symbiosis of (ecological, political, infrastructural, nervous…) systems, l-p-a provides services in the fields of strategic development, master planning, urban design, infrastructure and landscape design. LPA has accumulated extensive experience in the practice of subtropical urbanism