Thoughts

Essays, provocations, and reflections on architecture and urbanism by Lex te Loo Architects.

• (All) Aluminium. A Manifesto. (2026-04-21). Architecture thinks it needs twenty materials. It needs one. A manifesto for mono-material building in aluminum: panels that carry air, electricity, waste, water and heat; rooms that become weather; cities that carry their own light.
• What HARIBO Teaches Us About Façades (2026-04-12). The analysis of HARIBO packaging reveals insights about façades in architecture. The tension between representation and reality is examined through candy and traditional building materials.
• Hospital Green (2026-04-12). The piece critiques the limitations of language in describing spaces, particularly in hospitals. It argues for a future where architecture communicates through gradients and sensations rather than fixed terms.