Architecture as Inquiry and System

Founded in 2011, Architecture Field Lab is the research and pedagogical organization, dedicated to architecture as method of investigation. We study how space, governance, ecology, and technology intersect—treating architecture not only as a built discipline but as a way of understanding systems and change.

Our work operates at the boundary between design and research. Each project begins with a question: how do infrastructures shape life, and how can design reveal their hidden logic? From coastal resilience to typological futures, our inquiries unfold through mapping, fieldwork, and prototyping—producing frameworks that connect social, ecological, and spatial intelligence.

We approach architecture as evidence and hypothesis. Drawings, models, and data are not final images but arguments—tools for testing relationships between policy, landscape, and form. This analytic rigor is balanced by a narrative sensibility: even the most technical investigation seeks clarity, coherence, and human meaning.

Sustainability in Architecture Field Lab is understood as reciprocity—between natural and artificial systems, between communities and institutions, between present need and future care. Each study asks how resources, knowledge, and responsibility can circulate more equitably through the built environment.

Collaboration is integral to our method. We work with universities, civic agencies, and cultural organizations to build cross-disciplinary teams where designers, researchers, and citizens share authorship. Architecture becomes a platform for dialogue—linking analysis to action and theory to practice.

What unites our projects is a commitment to clarity, ethics, and continuity. We treat research as design and design as research, believing that the future of architecture lies in its capacity to make complex systems visible and negotiable. Architecture Field Lab transforms inquiry into form—turning abstract data into spatial intelligence and revealing the architectures that organize contemporary life.

Architecture Field Lab has collaborated with academic and civic partners internationally, with work presented at leading institutions and publications spanning architecture, urbanism, and environmental design.

For inquiries, please contact:

Architecture Field Lab

325 Canal Street, 4th Floor

New York, NY 10013

info@studiostigsgaard.com