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Ada Tolla and
Giuseppe Lignano

Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano
Architects
New York, NY
2011 USA Fellow

This award was generously supported by Suzanne Deal Booth.
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Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano both studied at the Universitá di Napoli, where they met, before moving to New York to complete post-graduate studies at Columbia University. In 1993, they founded their architectural firm LOT-EK, which is known for the adaptive reuse and up-cycling of infrastructural and industrial structures, most notably the standard 40-foot shipping container, but also airplane fuselages, oil truck tanks, and cement-mixer drums. Tolla and Lignano both teach at Columbia University.

Portrait photo courtesy the artists.

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  • Artwork by Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano
    Puma City, 2008, by LOT-EK; photo credit Danny Bright
Artwork by Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano