ARTURO LUJAN
SAY IT LOUD - North Carolina Exhibitor
North Carolina Based Designer
Who or what inspires you professionally?
All of my mentors, professors and co-workers. Individuals in pursuit of innovative ideas.
ARTURO LUJAN
Bio:
The great designer, Arturo Lujan is a graduate and currently a Teaching Fellow from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He was also part of the DesignLAB in Charlotte from 2017-2019 and has worked for several design studios in Charlotte North Carolina. He is currently an active member of the Integrated Design Research Lab (IDRL) lab in the School of Architecture at UNCC.
How did you first learn about architecture and when did you decide that built environment profession was an area of interest for you?
Realized at a very young age that design could alter our individual living conditions.
What do you do?
I simultaneously practice in Charlotte, NC and teach at UNC Charlotte, School of Architecture .
What excites you in the work you do?
The reciprocal ability for my ideas to fluctuate between an academic and professional environment.
Who or what inspires you professionally?
All of my mentors, professors and co-workers. Individuals in pursuit of innovative ideas.
What is your proudest professional accomplishment or achievement?
Being involved in the development of the next generations of future designers.
Featured Project Name:
_PLAY
Featured Project Location:
Charlotte, North Carolina
Featured Project Completion Date:
December 2019
Role in Featured Project:
Noushin and Arturo designed, wrote and directed the sequence of assignments that enable the production of each step of this project. The assignment series is part of a class titled; Recording Observations 1601, that took place in the School of Architecture at UNC Charlotte.
Featured Project Description:
_Play is a design assignment series that questions the interactions of architecture, through a simultaneous act of play as a design strategy. It delivers sensibilities about our understanding of scale by evolving an idea though or from a playful event. This methodology offers an alternative that is willing to connect our understanding of architecture as a purified experience that becomes a revealing endeavor towards capturing architectonic forms.
Photography Credit:
All the work and photography was produced by UNC Charlotte, School of Architecture First Year Students Class of 2023.
Featured Project Name:
Mh20
Featured Project Location:
Anywhere
Featured Project Completion Date:
July 2020
Role in Featured Project:
All digital work was produced by Francisco Ceron Maza & Arturo Lujan.
Featured Project Description:
Mh20 is an advantageous way of approaching modular construction as it thinks of the building process with practicality and glamour. The project aims to allow occupants maximize the possibilities of their unique space with a panelized system that can be built by anyone. The notion of mass-production starts to evoke a resurgence of the assembly line similar to those of the automobile industry. Mh20 has the ability to contextualize and scale itself in any environment in the world.
