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5 March 2020
PARA selected by Domus for 50 best firms 2020! Thank you, Domus!

4 December 2019
Stump House receives an Honorable Mention Award from the Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design 2019!

26 November 2019
Jon Lott lectures at UEL, School of Architecture, London —part of the Sto Foundation lecture series

21 November 2019
Jon Lott in conversation with Go Hasegawa, part of the Five on Five series, curated by Mark Lee, Chair of Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design

17 October 2019
Jon Lott lectures at AHO, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway

14 August 2019
Jon Lott participates on AIANY’s New Practices NY panel, “Something In-Between” -together with panelists Seán Canty, Elaine Molinar, and Jonathan Jackson; moderated by Ryan Brooke Thomas and Benjamin Cadena –hosted by The Center, in New York City

28 June 2019
Stump House receives a Special Mention Award from Architizer!

6 May 2019
Jon Lott lectures at CSU Florence, Italy –followed by conversation with Gianni Pettena, moderated by Marco Brizzi

11 April 2019
Jon Lott lectures at Helms Bakery in Los Angeles

11 February 2019
Stump House receives a P/A Award!

30 October 2018
Pioneertown House wins an AIA|LA Merit Award!

8 October 2018
Jon Lott lectures at Kent State University

10 September 2018
Haffenden House is part of the group show 44 Low-resolution Houses at Princeton University’s School of Architecture, curated by Michael Meredith –opens 11 September thru 9 November– exhibition design by MOS, graphics (and image here) by Studio Lin

30 July 2018
Pioneertown House wins an A+ Award!

01 July 2018
Roche/Dinkeloo Double opens at the Fine Arts Center, UMASS, Amherst –up thru October

26 March 2018
Live Feed opens at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Curated by Jon Lott and John May of MILLIONS

12 February 2018
Pioneertown House receives a P/A Award!

22 January 2018
PARA included in the group show, Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design –curated by Andrew Holder and K. Michael Hays –open 22 Janurary thru 11 March  (image: Justin Knight / Harvard GSD)

10 November 2017
Work in progress for a new house in Pioneertown, California

18 October 2017
Jon Lott lectures at Wentworth Institute of Technology

17 October 2017
Jon Lott participates on AIANY’s New Design Directions panel –moderated by Julian Rose, with panelists Christian Wassman, Miriam Peterson, and Ryan Brooke Thomas –organized by Koray Duman and Benjamin Cadena –hosted by Design within Reach, Soho, NYC

15 October 2017
Jon Lott offers a tour of the Van Alen Institute — part of Open House New York weekend

10 October 2017
CLOK interviews with MVT Journal

05 September 2017
Another Distortion included in the exhibition: When in Rome, at RIBA, curated by Jacobo Costanza, Giulia Leone, and Valentino Danilo Matteis –open from 5 September thru 8 October at the RIBA in London

25 May 2017
Jon Lott lectures at the Art Institute Chicago

24 May 2017
Jon Lott participates on the Schiff Foundation Fellowship selection jury at the Art Institute Chicago

12 May 2017
Reconstructivist Architecture, curated by Jacobo Costanza, moves to Casa Dell’Architettura, in Rome –open 12 May thru July 2017– the show includes PARA’s Another Distortion –a hypothetical villa– and works by MAIO, False Mirror Office, Something Fantastic, UNULAUNU, Warehouse of Architecture, et al.

03 April 2017
CLOK presents recent work as part of the Harvard Graduate School of Design Alice review series at the Philip Johnson Thesis House

14 March 2017
Balls in the Air –deliberations on the board room begin

16 December 2016
CLOK selected as Finalist for the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery in Washington DC

07 December 2016
Another Distortion –a hypothetical villa– included in the group show: Reconstructivist Architecture, curated by Jacobo Costanza and Giovani Cozzani –open from 7 December thru 10 February 2017 at Ierimonti Gallery in NYC, including works by MAIO, False Mirror Office, Something Fantastic, UNULAUNU, Warehouse of Architecture, et al.

27 September 2016

15 July 2016

Roof on roof – plans for Moran Moran, LA

22 April 2016

Jon Lott discusses Interior Matters with William O’Brien Jr. and Sarah Oppenheimer at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (photo by Justin Knight)

01 April 2016
Jon Lott to present at the MCHAP symposium at IIT in Chicago

28 March 2016
Haffenden House on display at Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s exhibition: Interior Matters –curated by Kiel Moe, including works by Megan Panzano, John May, and Jon Lott –open 28 March thru 13 May (photo by Justin Knight)

22 March 2016
Jon Lott gives Emerging Voices lecture with the Architectural League of New York at the Sheen Center in New York City

18 March 2016

Haffenden House selected as Finalist for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Emerging Architecture

29 February 2016

Van Alen receives an Award of Honor from the American Institute of Architects!

09 February 2016

Heart of Hearts opens in Times Square, New York City!

03 February 2016

Jon Lott receives the Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York

11 November 2015

CLOK’s proposal, Heart of Hearts, selected as winner of the Times Square Valentine Pavilion! –opens 9 February 2016 – 6 March 2016

10 November 2015

Jon Lott talks on Holes and Clokwork  at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design

14 September 2015

Collective–LOK is selected as a Finalist for Performa Prospettiva, their proposal to the Performa 2015 Biennial Competition

22 August 2015

Headspace in Jai & Jai’s group exhibition, BUST – curated by William O’Brien Jr, including works by Andrew Kovacs, Bureau Spectacular, CODA, First Office, MILLIONS, MOS, Norman Kelley, PARA Project, Pita + Bloom, SO-IL, WOJR – opens 22 August thru 19 September (image by Eric Minh Swenson)

13 August 2015

Jon Lott invited to participate in Storefront’s group show, “Measure” – opens 13 August thru 12 September. 30 drawings by 30 architects. Bid on a drawing to support Storefront!

10 August 2015

Haffenden House featured in New York Magazine

01 August 2015

Van Alen Institute opens Gentrification Lab exhibition

30 June 2015
Collective-LOK receives Honorable Mention for Mappa Mundi, their proposal for the Peace Corp Commemorative Work Competition

19 June 2015
Jon Lott receives an AZ Award from AZURE

11 June 2015
PARA is listed in Wallpaper*s 2015 Architects Directory

14 April 2015

Haffenden House receives an Architizer A+Award!

09 March 2015

Haffenden House receives an Award of Merit from the American Institute of Architects! (photo: Rick Bell)

01 February 2015

Haffenden House featured in MARK #54 and awarded Best of 2014 by Domus 

05 December 2014

Van Alen Institute preview party!!

–write-ups in Architectural Record by Fred Bernstein, the Architect’s Newspaper, ARCHITECT, and MARK

(photo: Cameron Blaylock)

01 October 2014

PARA profiled as Best New Practice in AZURE magazine 2015 Trends Issue — by Tim McKeough

01 October 2014

PARA‘s recent work is in the show “New Practices New York” – designed by Natasha Jen at Pentagram

— open from 01 Oct 14 – 17 Jan 15 at the Center for Architecture  in New York City (image courtesy of Pentagram / photography: Max Yanwney)

01 June 2014

Haffenden House is featured in a+u #526

–on the “primal concept and experimental design of retreat”

06 February 2014

Jon Lott, William O’Brien Jr., and Michael Kubo, in the partnership Collective-LOK, selected as finalists in MoMA’s Young Architects Program

17 January 2014

PARA receives the New Practices New York award from the American Institute of Architects New York

23 September 2013

Jon Lott, together with William O’Brien Jr. and Michael Kubo, in the partnership Collective-LOK, win competition to design the new Van Alen Institute!

01 December 2013

PARA receives the Design Vanguard award from Architectural Record

17 October 2013

Haffenden House nears completion…

28 August 2013

PARA selected to design Syracuse University Architecture Info Spot

13 May 2013

After 40 years of no front entry, Huntington Hall opens its doors

28 September 2011

La Casita opens to the public, Syracuse NY

15 February 2011

PARA designs exhibition for the Marcel Breuer and Postwar America at the Syracuse University School of Architecture — the show will be open 15 Feb – 29 Mar 2011 // curated by Barry Bergdoll and Jonathan Massey

15 January 2011

PARA wins competition to design Syracuse University’s Huntington Hall Commons and Auditorium

20 December 2010

PARA commissioned to design La Casita’s new cultural center in Syracuse NY