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Space Popular is an art
and architecture studio that explores the future of spatial experience through research, design, and artworks. The studio
works with virtual reality, film, exhibitions, and writing, as well as buildings and objects, and is directed by architects
Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg, both alumni of the Architectural Association in London (2011). They founded the practice
in Bangkok (2013) and have been based in London and Spain since 2016. The studio has completed projects across Asia and Europe,
as well as virtual architecture for the immersive internet (aka. the metaverse).
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Clients, collaborators, and commissioners include national institutions such as MAXXI
- National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy; Sir John Soane Museum, London UK; The Swedish Centre for Architecture
and Design –ArkDes, Stockholm, Sweden; Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Art, Seoul, South Korea; MEET Digital Culture Centre in Milan, Italy; as well as independent galleries such as MAGAZIN, Vienna,
Austria; and Sto Werkstatt, London, UK.
Lesmes and Hellberg both have extensive academic experience having
taught architectural design studio since 2011, first at INDA, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok from 2021 to 2016, at the
Architectural Association in London from 2016 to 2021, at Daniels, Faculty of Architecture, University of Toronto from 2020
to 2022, and currently at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design. Their current MArch design and research studio investigates
visions for civic architecture in the immersive internet.
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