LANZA atelier
Pavilion Catalogue 2026
LANZA’s first monograph brings together new and insightful contributions from the fields of architecture and literature to reflect on LANZA atelier’s Pavilion and wider practice.
- Medium:
- Paperback
- Dimensions:
- 27 x 14 cm , pp. 136
- ISBN:
- 978-1-918731-01-9
Description
The Serpentine Pavilion 2026, a serpentine, is designed by Mexico City-based LANZA atelier, founded by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo, and takes its name from the serpentine wall. As is typical of LANZA’s practice, the architects reimagined a familiar material – brick – which is used throughout the Pavilion and is the inspiration behind the design of the accompanying catalogue designed by Estudio Herrera.
LANZA’s first monograph brings together new and insightful contributions from the fields of architecture and literature to reflect on LANZA atelier’s Pavilion and wider practice. Generously illustrated in colour throughout, it features essays by curator José Esparza Chong Cuy; Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cristina Rivera Garza; and a poem by Ocean Vuong. Alongside these contributions, the book features hand-drawn site plans from LANZA’s design process; an essay by Isabel Abascal; and an in-depth interview with Serpentine Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Published by: Serpentine and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln
Edited by: Tamsin Hong and Liz Stumpf
Contributors: Isabel Abascal, Alessandro Arienzo, Iwan Baan, José Esparza Chong Cuy, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Cristina Rivera Garza, Ocean Vuong
Designed by: Estudio Herrera
Printed by: Roy Killen, UK
Pages: 136
Dimensions: 27 x 14 cm
Artist
LANZA atelier
Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo founded LANZA atelier in 2015 in Mexico City with the purpose of making meaningful contributions to the beauty of the world. Since then, they have been nominated for the 2016 Ibero-American Architecture Biennial Award and the Mies Crown Hall Award for Emerging Architects, IIT Chicago in 2016 and 2022, and for the Brick Award 2021. The studio is one of the winners of the Young Architects Prize 2017 and the Emerging Voices Award 2023 from the Architectural League of New York which described their multimodal work as one that “expresses an inventiveness, a sensitivity to context, and a compositional refinement that spans scales and forms.” Following LANZA atelier’s first solo show, New Work at SFMOMA in 2018, the atelier’s work has been exhibited at the 12th São Paulo Architecture Biennale (2019), the Lisbon Triennale (2019), the Concéntrico Festival in Spain (2021), and the Latin American Architecture Biennial (BAL) 2023. Additionally, they have presented their work at Syracuse University (2025), Yale University (2024), CU Denver (2024), UTSA (2023), Cal Poly Pomona as part of the VDL House Residency Program (2022), the Constructing Practice Symposium at Columbia University (2019), among others. LANZA atelier’s 2026 projects include a solo exhibition of their furniture designs at AGO Projects in Mexico City as well as the design of the 61st Venice Art Biennale’s Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo, curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy and presenting a new commission by Brilant Milazimi titled Hard Teeth (Dhëmbë të Fortë).
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