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Paul Lukez Architecture was established in 1992. The firm’s charter calls for exploring new forms of architectural practice. Through parallel investigations of ideas explored both in research and practice, lessons learned from both sets of endeavors can inform and enrich one another. Paul Lukez is a graduate of MIT with over twenty years of professional experience in a wide range of building types including; housing, restaurants, interiors, retail, residences, factories, subway stations, and urban design/planning projects. He is the recipient of numerous professional and academic awards. His work has been widely published in local, regional, national and international journals and books. Paul Lukez has taught as a (visiting) professor at MIT, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, TU Delft, Roger Williams University, Miami University, Boston Architectural Center and the Technical University of Prague. The PLA staff consists of highly skilled and talented individuals whose enthusiasm and energy are only matched by their commitment to design of the highest quality. In addition, the firm prides itself on its ability to assemble and work collaboratively with a wide array of consultants, artists, crafts persons, and professionals in order to achieve project synergy. |
DESIGN URBAN DESIGN / TRANSFORM X CHINA VISION PROJECT SUSTAINABLE DESIGN |
SUBURBAN TRANSFORMATIONS Suburban Transformations offers an alternative to these practices while synthesizing many of the ideas and proposals that they put forth. Paul Lukez, architect and former professor of architectural design at MIT, explores a process of planning that embraces the forces of time and change, encouraging the natural transformations that make communities unique. Both a work of theory and a practical tool for suburban community planning, Suburban Transformations introduces the Adaptive Design Process, a method that allows for the organic transformation of communities from suburbs and edge cities that lack a sense of place into communities with their own distinct identity and unique character. In order to stimulate the authentic and fluid evolution of a sustainable community, this process draws important information from a site’s history, building upon it by projecting into the future with a series of transformations of buildings, programs, and infrastructure, to create a more habitable and memorable environment. Five case studies provide fully expressed examples of the process, beginning with a sophisticated system of mapping and culminating in computer projections of likely future outcomes, giving the designer the ability to project changes in the community fabric and adding that knowledge to the designer’s kit of place-making tools. buy the book at Princeton Architectural Press |