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We are thrilled to announce the release of our new book, Nature | Place | Craft | Restraint, published by the University of Texas Press.

Nature | Place | Craft | Restraint features some of our large-scale pursuits: arresting, airy and sustainable public buildings. Featuring more than three hundred stunning color photographs, the book explores sixteen projects from across the United States. The  images—of  Mississippi’s ecologically resilient Marine Education Center, the Witte Museum and Confluence Park projects in San Antonio, and the daylit Austin Central Library among other spaces—are grouped by themes reflecting our firm's ethos: nature, place, craft and restraint. 

Today, architecture is a delicate dance in a time of immense envrionmental and cultural challenges. Lake|Flato faces the gravity of these challenges head on. They design honestly, openly, and without fear. -David Miller

Architects Kengo Kuma, David Miller FAIA, Warren T. Byrd Jr. FASLA, Stefanos Polyzoides, Vivian Loftness FAIA, and Lance Hosey FAIA provide guest commentary, delving into the works and themes and connecting them to Lake|Flato’s larger mission of creating a meaningful architecture that connects people with the natural environment and fosters culture and community.

Nature | Place | Craft | Restraint is available now through the University of Texas Press, Amazon, and select local bookstores.

We are honored Aegean Pool House, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation and the New Mexico School for the Arts were recognized with AIA San Antonio People + Place Awards. Congratulations to all who were recognized this year! See the full list of recipients here. 

Located in the heart of Austin's South Congress District next to the new Music Lane development, Hotel Magdalena, the latest hotel for Bunkhouse Group, is the first mass-timber boutique hotel constructed in North America. Hotel Magdalena's five-building complex was designed around the site's existing Live Oak heritage trees, which became the focal points for outdoor gathering spaces and private suite gardens.

Read about Hotel Magdalena in The New York Times Style Magazine, Texas Monthly, Forbes and Condé Nast Traveler.

Lake|Flato is honored to partner with industry-leading peers who share our mission to create workplaces focused on the health and wellbeing of occupants. The WORKWELL Coalition is an integrated team offering turnkey multidisciplinary expertise to reshape and re-imagine high-performance workspaces and bring your staff back to work safely during this new normal.

The WORKWELL Coalition, consisting of architecture, interior design, strategic planning, engineering and construction firms, has assembled a menu of services and a roadmap to navigate healthy and sustainable workplace re-entry in response to COVID-19. The Coalition consists of Lake|Flato Architects, AEI Affiliated Engineers, Dialog, EcoAmmo, Entro, PLASTARC, stok and Zetlin & De Chiara.  

For decades, Lake|Flato has approached each client and project as an opportunity to create more vibrant and collaborative spaces that improve the health and well-being of our clients. The WORKWELL Coalition is an extension of this mission and is uniquely positioned to respond to the specific workplace requirements of each client. Our approach to human centered environments and biophilic design enables us to positively affect both human and ecological well-being as we thoughtfully reimagine workplaces for the utmost health and safety of their occupants.

Safe and effective return to work strategies should consider a multitude of multi-disciplinary factors ranging from individual behavioral training, workspace configurations and telework, and building systems performance. These policies and systems must be coordinated to address the needs of the future workplace. The WORKWELL Coalition offers a menu of services and a clearly defined process to navigate healthy and sustainable workplace re-entry in response to the unique culture of each organization.

The WORKWELL Coalition is an outgrowth of The Global Design Alliance (GDA), an international network of AEC Industry thought leaders with experience collaborating on projects ranging from design and construction to diversity and inclusion initiatives. With a shared set of values and a history of collaboration, the WORKWELL Coalition is poised to address the challenges facing corporations, institutions and nonprofits across North America.

For more information, please email marketing [at] lakeflato.com.