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LAN (Local Architecture Network) was founded in 2002 by Benoît Jallon and Umberto Napolitano with the idea of exploring architecture as a field of activity at the intersection of several disciplines. This attitude has evolved into a methodology that allows the LAN to explore new territories and develop a vision that encompasses social, urban, functional and formal issues. LAN's projects aim to find elegant, contemporary answers to creative and pragmatic questions.
LAN has received several awards: the Nouveaux Albums de la Jeune Architecture (NAJA) prize from the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (2004), the International Architecture Prize of the Chicago Athenaeum and the European Urban Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies, the Archi-Bau Award, the special prize of the 12th World Triennale of Architecture, Sofia (2009), the AR Mipim Future Projects Award and the Europe 40 Under 40 Award (2010). In 2011, the studio was awarded the Best Sustainable Development in Keeping with its Environment at the LEAF Awards, the SAIE Selection Awards 2011 and the AMO Fondation d'Entreprise Excellence SMA special prize.
LAN was nominated for the Prix de l'Equerre d'Argent in 2011. LAN won the silver medal for the International Prize for Sustainable Architecture in 2012 for Fassa Bortolo. In 2013, LAN was awarded an award for the Civic Trust Awards, the WAN Residential Award and the first prize for BigMat France. In 2014, the Euravenir Tower was nominated for the Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent and the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2015, the EDF Archive Centre was nominated for the Philippe Rotthier European Prize for Architecture, and the New Hamburg Terraces received the International Architecture Awards (Chicago Athenaeum) and the Carl-Friedrich Fischer Prize 2014 - Humanes wohnen. In the same year, the French Academy of Architecture honored LAN with the Le Soufaché Award.
