Space Popular

Space Popular is an architecture and media studio that explores the future of spatial experience through research, design, and artworks. The studio works with virtual reality, film, exhibitions, and writing, as well as buildings and objects, and is directed by architects Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg, both alumni of the Architectural Association in London (2011). They founded the practice in Bangkok (2013) and have been based in London and Spain since 2016. The studio has completed projects across Asia and Europe, as well as virtual architecture for the immersive internet (aka. the metaverse). Clients, collaborators, and commissioners include national institutions such as MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy; The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design –ArkDes, Stockholm, Sweden; Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea; MEET digital culture Center in Milan, Italy; as well as independent galleries such as MAGAZIN, Vienna, Austria; and Sto Werkstatt, London, UK.