Giuseppe Lignano

Giuseppe Lignano (September 5, 1963 -) is an Italian-born architect and co-founder (with Ada Tolla) of the New York City architectural firm LOT-EK in 1993. LOT-EK was the first architecture firm to employ large scale industrial objects like shipping containers, airplane fuselages, water and oil tanks, etc. as construction materials.LOT-EK's "Goree Memorial" (1995) is the first project in history to ever use ISO shipping containers to create a complex and complete Architecture and it remains a seminal project in the field. The Guzman Penthouse and the Miller-Jones Studio (1996) which employ alluminum truck containers, The Morton Loft (2000) which employs a water tank, the Mixer which employs a concrete mixer, the Bohen Foundation (2002) and the MDU, or Mobile Dwelling Unit, (exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Artin 2003) are more seminal projects of the LOT-EK philosophy based on the re-use of industrial objects. LOT-EK's objects are "extracted" from their URBANSCAN, a work in progress, a photo survey of the contemporary urban and suburban environment and also the title of their first monograph published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2001 and of their lecture that has brought the LOT-EK vision around the world. The "next generation" of LOT-EK projects include 4 recently completed buildings: Sanlitun South and Sanlitun North in Beijing, China; the Weiner Townhouse in the West Village, New York and the PumaCity, 11,000 sqft mobile reatil/entertainment building scheduled to travel around the world for several years

As of 2003, Lignano has acted as an adjunct professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.