“Architecture is about Human Experience”: Diego Cano-Lasso on Designing with Nature in Los Angeles
Second Home Hollywood. Image © Iwan Baan
Contemporary architecture is increasingly created as a product of the market. Human experience and natural systems are traded for convenience and the bottom dollar, resulting in buildings that become commodities rather than spaces for daily life. When architect Diego Cano-Lasso of SelgasCano set out to design the new Second Home in Los Angeles, he aimed to challenge the status quo. In doing so, he was part of creating one of the city’s most inspiring developments in recent memory.
