Research
& News.
Field notes, research, case studies, and firm news from Atlas Lantz Studio — published as we go. The studio publishes in four registers: News for announcements, Research for in-progress investigations, Case Studies for completed work, and On Curiosity for the questions that shape practice.
Jalan Basar — Kwong Soon & Co Hotel
A 1933 Art Deco foundry on Cavan Road, ninety-one years later. Why an industrial building wore the architectural language of a civic one — and what that has to do with the Greater Southern Waterfront.
Toyi-Toyi: The Travelling Dance of Refusal
Opening the research phase of a KwaZulu-Natal project: the southern African protest dance, its origins in the liberation-war drill camps, and its long afterlife in democratic-era streets, stadiums, and stages.
Seeing the Moon Before We Touched It
Gene Shoemaker mapped the geology of another world from telescope photographs in 1961. The framework he built under constraint is still in use today — a case study in disciplined curiosity.
Waikiki Student Center
Not a building that references Hawaiʻi. A building that participates in it — its ecology, its educational culture, and its students' ongoing inquiry into the place they call home.
On the Boards — Alpha26 Private Residence
Early Design Development on a single-family hillside residence in Southern California — cross-laminated timber, V-column perimeter framing, and an asymmetric roof that pushes back on LA's placeless stucco box.
Certified as an LGBTBE through the NGLCC
Atlas Lantz Studio is now certified as an LGBTQ+ Business Enterprise through the National LGBTQ+ & Allied Chamber of Commerce.
Atlas Lantz Studio Founded
Andy Lantz launches an ideas-driven architecture and design practice — built for a world that no longer waits.