The slow but inexorable march of history reserves for architecture a sequence of alternate phases, each lasting about thirty years, at the start of which each generation takes up a critical attitude towards the previous one. Contemporary architectural culture is now in this transitional phase: today’s paradigms will gradually lose their importance, disappear or be replaced by what we today considerer as values opposed to the established values of these years. It is to be hoped that architecture will reacquire a radical formal identity.
LOKOMOTIV.archs office - LKMV is a multidisciplinary Practice devoted to design in all of dimensions and scales. The primary ideal of the practice is based on the analysis of global elements, a process that consists of different approaches to the dynamic behavior of contemporary society, the flow of the economy and the cultural development. The LKMV has collaborated with recognized offices like Aurelio Galfetti, Mario Botta, Elia Zenghelis and Peter Zumthor. Founded by Anita Bulloni & Alberto Julio Fresco (Master of Science in Architecture degree from the Universita della Svizzera Italiana – M Sc arch. USI), further expanded with the inclusion of Juan Campopiano (M Sc arch. USI) in 2005.
Throughout the process we have developed a standard of quality and aesthetic-cultural versatility, which creates interpretation of our work, creativity and experience. The technology broadens the picture to us with new solutions and aesthetic quality, taking advantage of new techniques and processes to develop a critical-futuristic vision for the changing needs of contemporary society. The identity of year unfolds with converging parts of society as the events in the city or bodily movements, analysis, which is linked by digital media and decisions supported by advisers of sustainable design, structural, aesthetic, functional and constructive criteria.