Rather than looking back on 15 years of major global work, this book engages its readers to consider architecture as a profound human endeavour by exploring six universal themes: future cities, biodiversity, energy transition, the social impact of architecture, new digital processes and the evolution of the workplace. These six ideas become the lens through which LAVA’s founders Chris Bosse, Alexander Rieck and Tobias Wallisser, as well as visionaries from architecture and adjacent disciplines, ask thought-provoking questions about the built environment and its future.

I advised the architects that a theme-driven book would be more meaningful, contextualising their work within the six themes and highlighting the creative vision and concept that underpin each project. The result is a sophisticated, magazine-style publication that interweaves features, interviews and short articles with contributors' essays that expand on the main themes, each answering a speculative ‘what if’ question.

Throughout the process, I created a detailed editorial concept reflecting the magazine-like approach, interviewed the architects to contextualise their ideas and served as the Managing Editor and Editor in Chief, responsible for shaping and refining each narrative, guiding a curated team of writers, whose work has appeared in publications like Frame, Mark, Dezeen and DAMN, and collaborating with forward-thinking contributors and the design team from NODE Berlin-Oslo. The book has successfully established a platform for new thinking, ideas and ways of presenting these in book form. It has initiated a series of conversations that explore architecture and the future of life on earth.