We strive to create sustaining spaces,
liveable and
loveable.
We work on a diverse range of projects including housing, private homes, remodels, renovations, and public spaces such as skateparks, playgrounds, spatial installations, and furniture.
By integrating urban, architectural, and interior design, we strive to create spaces that are both visually and physically engaging, fostering social interaction and enhancing well-being.
Lagado Architects was founded in 2011 by Maria Vasiloglou and Victor Verhagen in rotterdam.
Our
name
represents
an openminded
design approach
We named ourselves after the architect of the Grand Academy of Lagado in the story of Gullivers’ Travels, who studied how to be able to build a house starting from the top and working downward to the foundations.
We are openminded and playful while at the same time seriously focussed on getting our projects built.
We question conventions
with unconventional
answers.
Hi
from
Historic
Delfshaven
in Rotterdam!
LAGADO architects
Voorhaven 23C
3025 HC Rotterdam
+31(0)6 54 600 440
EMAIL@LAGADOARCHITECTS.COM
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Our work got
widely published
Nominated for the
Rotterdam Architectuurprijs 2023
Volkskrant
Magazine interviewed
and photographed us in our
Work-Home Play-Home in 2022
Emerging European Practice
studio profile published in
in Newgenerations book in 2022
Archdaily
featured us as
Emerging
Practice in 2020
Architectuur NL
wrote about us in
their November 2013 issue
Architecture
Institute Rotterdam
made this video profile
in 2012 when we just started
Selected
publications
and interviews
2024 Workhome-Playhome featured in Financial Times Magazine
2023 Workhome-Playhome featured on Dutch TV show ‘Binnenstebuiten’.
2022 Emerging European Practices (2022) book by newgenerationsweb.com, featured as one of 95 selected practices from over 500 studios with a profile and interview about our design approach, early steps, current work and future challenges
2022 Volkskrant Magazine 16 april 2022 nr 1075, Binnenkijken featuring our Workhome-Playhome with an interview
2020 Emerging European Practice Profile on Newgenerationsweb.org
2020 Workhome – Playhome published on Dezeen, Frame, Archdaily, Archello and Architectenweb and more
2019 Atlas of Emerging Practices – Being an European
Architect in the 21st Century – featured practice,
participation in research project
2018 Forum Magazine #02 – De Keuken
2016 Forum Magazine #12 – Beste gebruiker/Dear user
2016 AMC Magazine – temporary pavillions – Easehouse
2016 Buitenspelen Magazine special Urban Sports – interview
2016 Grote Rotterdamse Kunstkalender
2015 De Architect.nl – interview skatepark Westblaak II
2015 A10 Magazine for new European Architecture,
Skatepool Heemraadssingel
2014 ZigZagCity ‘Door de ogen van LAGADO’ routemap
2014 NRC Handelsblad – ‘Sporten in de stad’
2014 Grote Rotterdamse Kunstkalender
2013 Architectuur NL magazine – interview
2013 Rdamse Nieuwe x Vers Beton – interview
2013 Haacs magazine – skatepool Heemraadssingel
2012 Jonge Architecten Prijs Catalogus
happy
to work
together
Selections,
special projects,
awards and nominations
2024 Nomination for ARC24 Interior Award with Gatehouse home remodel
2023 Nomination for Rotterdam Architectuurprijs with Curves, Colours and Cutouts interior transformation as one of 10 finalists
2021 Building Of The Year nomination by Archdaily for Work Home Play Home
2021 Selected to design wooden Sluisbuurt Pavillion and participate in masterclass ‘Building with Wood’ by Architectuur Lokaal and Municipality of Amsterdam, to be exhbited at Arcam
2020 Invited to participate in Mirabilia exhibition in Matera,
Italy by Antilia Gallery, a curatorial project by Profferlo
Architecture with a model that reinterprets Italo
Calvino’s Invisible Cities
2019 Invited to participate in Atlas Workshop and Speaking
Corner at New Generations Festival in Rome
2019 Selected as one of the emerging European practices by
Itinerant Office and participation in ‘Atlas of Emerging
Practices’ research and book publication
2019 Shortlisted for participation in international
competition for a skatepark and landscape park
integrated within a recycle facility, together with OpenFabric.
2019 Shortlisted for the design of a gymnastics hall,
Heijplaat, Rotterdam, together with Vlot Architecten
2018 Participation in Nacht van de Kunsten Tilburg with a
parametric pavillion designed and built by our Fontys
Master of Architecture students
2018 Participation in Next Step Program by BNA and
Synchroon at TUDelft
2017 Participation in Nacht van de Kunsten Tilburg with
Surface Symphony pavillion, designed and built by our
Fontys Master of Architecture students
2017 Selected for urban design atelier Egyptische Poort
Bladel by Architectuur Lokaal
2016 Nominated for Rotterdam Architectuur Prijs with self
initated skatepark Westblaak II
2014 Selected for participation by ZigZagCity festival
2013 Selected for Plug Rdam by Air and municipality of
Rotterdam
2013 Self initiated research on skateboarding and public
space honoured with startsubsidy by Creative
Industries Fund NL
2013 Shortlisted for Talent Development programme by
Creative Industries Fund NL
2012 Finalist Jonge Architectenprijs – competition
2012 Finalist Stadsmeubel Turnhout – competition (Belgium)
2012 Self initiated skatepool Heemraadssingel longlisted for
Van der Leeuwprijs
