Based in Los Angeles and London
Her work misreads and appropriates artistic, academic and architectural milieus exploring the ways our subjectivities are produced and structured as a result of both linguistic codes and spatial gestures. Lila investigates cultural phenomena weaving history with mythology, political philosophy with psychoanalysics and architectural theory with popular culture.
2. Out of Office
From capitalist realism to domestic realism, architecture has played a major role in the standardization of work as well as in the engulfing of time dedicated to labour. Read more
6. Is it a strike?
This chapter re-writes the last chapter within the times of global lockdown. Read more
3. Looks like harmonizing growth and desire is gonna be a tricky business
From 1960’s utopian re-imaginings of the house of the future, to Wages Against Housework, this chapter explores the versatile and invisible character of female labour. Read more
5. Just Do It
This chapter explores the blurred boundaries between work and leisure entangling the sources of the social, political and cultural stigma of leisure as laziness. Read more
4. Ora et Labora
This chapter departs from automation of labour and the evolution of work landscapes from factory counters to office cubicles. Read more
1. Introduction
Work, we love to hate it as we pay tribute to, sing about, reflect on and whine about it. Read more