Lanza Atelier

AGO Projects presents Azul y Verde, the second solo exhibition by LANZA atelier at the gallery.

Azul y Verde explores the shared origins of blue and green across cultures and languages. In classical Greek literature, blue was never named; glaukós could mean blue, green, or bright. Similarly, multiple ancient and contemporary languages used a single term to describe both colors, revealing color as a fluid and evolving concept shaped by perception and culture.

LANZA is an architecture studio founded in 2015 by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo, based in Mexico City. The leitmotif of their practice is to seek out and contribute to the beauty of the world. For LANZA atelier, architecture is a medium through which one can contribute to reality and take an ideological position.

LANZA’s first solo exhibition, New Work, took place at SFMOMA in San Francisco in 2018. The studio’s work has also been exhibited at the 2023 Latin American Architecture Biennial, the 12th São Paulo Architecture Biennial, the Concéntrico Festival 2021, and the Lisbon Triennale 2019. The studio has presented its work at Syracuse University in 2025 (where they served as project professors), Yale University (Bilbao Studio) in 2024, the University of Colorado Denver in 2024, ETSA Madrid in 2023, and Cal Poly Pomona as part of the VDL House Residency Program in 2022, as well as at the Constructing Practice Symposium at Columbia University in 2019, among others. LANZA has been nominated for the Ibero-American Architecture Biennial Award (2016), the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Emerging Architecture at IIT Chicago (2016 and 2022), and the Brick Award (2021).

The duo are recipients of the Emerging Voices Award 2023 and the Architectural League of New York’s Young Architects Prize 2017, which described their multimodal work as one that “expresses inventiveness, contextual sensitivity, and compositional refinement across many scales and forms.” Today, the studio works across industrial design—represented by AGO Projects—residential architecture, cultural spaces, and public infrastructure projects. LANZA atelier has been selected in 2026 to design the 25th Serpentine Pavilion.

— AGO Projects