LAB—OR is a self-incriminating design practice that works as an ongoing record of the teaching and scholarly work of Jessica Garcia Fritz and Federico Garcia Lammers. Jessica and Federico are faculty members in the School of Architecture (SoA) at the University of Minnesota. They are active members of The Architecture Lobby, and they align with other action-based programs. More details about their work are shared in news and events. Please say hello, contact us.
Texts (articles, papers, long and short essays, and more)
The Specification as an Instrument for Colonizing Oceti Sakowin Lands
A Church, a Silo, and a Warehouse: Eladio Dieste’s Gaussian Vaults and the Workers of the Encofrados
Labor Movements: From the Specifications of the Panama Canal to Robotic Patents
Cosmic Labor: Eladio Dieste and the Workers of La Iglesia de Cristo Obrero
Labor Histories and Carbon Futures
Shifting Practices in Twentieth-Century Specification Writing: The Case of the R. Guastavino Company
Theory and Practice: The Formulation and Delivery of Teaching Professional Practice
Political Turns: From Spaces of Detention to Spaces of Consumption in Montevideo, Uruguay
Matter over Materiality: Lessons on Authority from Eladio Dieste
Synchronic and Diachronic Labor: Deconstructing Eladio Dieste's Ruled Surfaces
Automated Comprehensiveness: Sectional Practices and the Misuse of Revit
Written Architecture: How Specification Standards Dissolved the Role of the Master Builder
Eduardo Torroja and the Engineering of Technocratic Authority in Franco’s Spain
Dull Professional Data from Ordinary Precedents
Professional Landscapes at the End of Education
Specification Species: How the Standard Shaped the Guastavino System
The Post-orthographic Tinkerbell Effect
From Master Builder to Subcontractor: The Guastavino Company and the Role of Specifications
The Art of Labor: Collaborative Practices in the Work of Eladio Dieste
Gaussian Vault Construction During the Civico-Military Dictatorship in Uruguay
Unmediated Matter and Catenary Practices
Four Centuries Across Four Weeks for One Book
Master Building Complex Forms in the Absence of Graphics
Sectional Practices: Between Archaeology and Generation
Eladio Dieste: A Network of Precise Errors
Material Labor: Eladio Dieste and Ruled Surfaces
Matter of Ruled Surfaces: Eladio Dieste for Beginners
The Dark God of Efficiency and the Economical Forms of Eladio Dieste
The Decline of the Guastavino Company and the Rise of Eladio Dieste
Origins from Washun Niya: Sacred Space as Contested Territory