Lex te Loo Architects

International architecture and urbanism bureau working at the scale of the city, the territory, and the ground. Metropolitan Intelligence, Geological Presence.

Lex te Loo Architects is building a public architectural practice defined by Metropolitan Intelligence and Geological Presence. We begin with the precise reading of urban, territorial, and cultural forces, and transform them into architecture that is clear in its logic, strong in its form, and deep in its atmosphere.

The bureau is brought in when the essential questions of a project are still open — when form, program, landscape, identity, and direction have not yet been fixed, and architecture can still shape the project fundamentally.

What we do

  • Metropolitan Frameworks — masterplans and urban concepts for dense situations where movement, density, phasing, economics, public life, and identity collide.
  • Territorial Concepts — work on sites where landscape is structure, not background. Architecture begins from terrain, atmosphere, sequence, access, and territorial presence.
  • Architecture of Presence — buildings and ensembles that need more than efficiency or image. Strong form, spatial depth, cultural weight.
  • Places of Stay — hospitality and resort concepts shaped by landscape, movement, sequence, and atmosphere.
  • Experimental Methods — digital tools, physical prototypes, and research collaborations that push the practice forward.

Sectors

  • Masterplanning and urban design
  • Mixed-use developments (up to 250,000 m²)
  • Residential
  • Hospitality and resort concepts
  • Cultural and public space
  • Infrastructure and territorial studies

Founder

Lex te Loo is an architect with 10+ years of professional experience across Europe and Russia. MArch (Cum Laude) Delft University of Technology, with exchange studies at ETH Zurich and the office of Prof. Balkrishna Doshi (Sangath, India). PhD candidate in Architecture at the University of Porto (FAUP), 2018–2019. Academic teacher and researcher at The Why Factory (TU Delft, 2017–2022) in the core team of Prof. Winy Maas, with collaborations including MVRDV, IAAC Barcelona, GSAPP New York, RMIT Melbourne, UTS Sydney, AMS Institute, and Manifesta 13.

Where we work

Europe, Russia, the Middle East, and Africa. Based in the Netherlands. Founded 2018.