Lanza Atelier
The architecture studio LANZA Atelier was founded in 2015 by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo and is based in Mexico City and Madrid. In their architectural projects, there is a prevalence in the use of local, industrial, or artisanal, materials and construction techniques, looking to give users a spirit of presence and identification with the place.
In 2019, LANZA Atelier started experimenting with ideas on a smaller scale. Furniture projects are approached as architectural projects. These pieces test spatial themes, apply simple geometry, and are built with basic materials. The purpose of LANZA furniture is to establish close links with the space in which it lives and the people with whom handles it. The leitmotiv of the practice of Isabel and Alessan- dro is to “nd and contribute to the beauty of the world.
Isabel Martínez Abascal graduated as an architect from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. She studied at the Technische Universität in Berlin and at the Vastu Shilpa Foundation in Ahmedabad (In- dia). She collaborated with the studios SANAA (Tokyo), Aranguren and Gallegos (Madrid), Anupama Kundoo (Berlin), and Pedro Mendes da Rocha (Sao Paulo).
Alessandro Arienzo is an architect who graduated with honors from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He collaborated with Taller de Arquitectura Rocha + Carrillo, Taller Tornel, and Frida Escobedo, with whom he developed the conceptual project for the Mexico Pavilion at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London Design Festival 2015, the renovation of the Fondo de Cultura Octavio Paz bookshop 2013 and the Public Stage Pavilion for the Lisbon Triennial, 2013. Eager to explore the different possibilities of architecture, he develops research and publishing projects. He was a recipient of the FONCA Young Creators Grant Program in 2017.
