About
LAIA is an innovation lab focused on cities, infrastructure, and construction technologies to sustain our society beyond the 21st century. LAIA brings ecology into the construction industry to promote its core values: resiliency, productivity, health, digitization, and diversity.
At the Lab we study technologies, mediums, and cultures to democratize the well-being of citizens and foster sustainable growth. Our research areas include automation systems, data science, and digital fabrication domains. LAIA also explores cultures and their relationships with the natural environment to project future developments.
For each project, the Observatory researches the place in depth: its geography, society, climate, ecology, and history. The result is proposals that fit people and place together.
Today that work reaches clients in three ways: three products (Footing, FloodLink, and Parcely), fixed-scope studies from the Lab, and a network that connects startups, companies, and investors.
LAIA was founded by Gabriel Muñoz Moreno, an architect and Harvard graduate, and Jordi Muro Naya, an internet entrepreneur, to change how cities are built.