FIRM DESCRIPTION______

Charter
The firm's charter calls for transforming environments into sustainable and poetic places.
We believe that by listening carefully to our clients, and integrating research as part of our design process, we can create inspiring and transformative spaces.

PLA Staff Description
The staff of PLA consists of highly skilled and talented individuals whose enthusiasm and energy are matched by their commitment to design of the highest quality. In addition, the firm prides itself in its ability to assemble and work collaboratively with a wide array of consultants, engineers, scientists, contractors, artists, craftspersons and allied professionals in order to achieve project synergy

Paul Lukez AIA Leed AP Biography
Paul Lukez is a graduate of MIT with over twenty five years experience in a range of urban and building design types. He is the recipient of numerous professional and academic awards, and has been published in regional, national and international publications. He is the author Suburban Transformations (Princeton Architectural Press 2007), and multiple articles on urban transformation. He has over 20 years of teaching experience as a (Visiting) Professor at MIT, Washington University, Tsinghua University, TU Delft, Zhejiang University, and Miami University among others. Before starting his own firm, he worked with SOM, William Rawn, Arrowstreet, Wallace Floyd and Coop Himmelblau.

DESIGN
walsh-glass
new england residence
sudbury river house
caribbean retreat
logan residence
maine retreat
indigo
open cycle, China
new england collections
cambridge bus stop
kadis
lowell housing
monsoon restaurant
graham residence
jetsetter spa miami
dover residence
wayland residence
stepheny residence
anderson residence
tidor office - MIT

URBAN DESIGN
burlington
north end traces
shenzhen district
seattle's waterfront
e-Mall
transforming akureyri
eco-auto-tek

CHINA PROJECTS
open cycle
spine
generative housing

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
spine, China
eco-auto-tek
open cycle, China
underground house
burlington
rolling bridge
not-so-big-house

SUBURBAN TRANSFORMATIONS
www.suburban-transformations.com
Smart Growth advocates, environmentalists, and New Urbanists have all tried in various ways to spread the message of reforming current land use patterns.

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.

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