LOT-EK’s projects range in scale and complexity from building and urban design to art installations and design objects. LOT-EK's clients range from residential to institutional and commercial all over the world. Their sustainable approach to construction through upcycling has been the basis of structural projects at all scales. They are committed to ecologically responsible and intelligent methods of building. To that end, they leverage the technological properties of existing industrial objects to create architecture.

LOT-EK has achieved high visibility for its sustainable and innovative approach to construction, materials and space, through the upcycling of existing industrial objects and systems not originally intended for architecture. LOT-EK is also recognized for the use of technology as an integral part of architecture, for addressing mobility and transformability in architecture and for working across art and architecture. LOT-EK’s projects have been published in national and international publications, magazines and books, including The New York Times, The London Times, Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Domus, A+U, Wired, Metropolis, Mark and more.

Ada Tolla has a master’s degree in architecture and urban design from the Universita’ di Napoli, Italy, and has completed postgraduate studies at Columbia University. In addition to teaching at Columbia GSAPP, she also lectures at major universities and cultural institutions globally.

In December 2011, Ada Tolla was recognized as USA Booth Fellow of Architecture & Design by United States Artists (USA).