Aranda\Lasch is a studio, founded by Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch, that creates buildings, art and software by exploring algorithmic processes across physical and digital materials.,Its first project, the Brooklyn Pigeon Project, strapped small cameras to pigeons to study the city from their point of view. Comparing real flock behavior with agent-based flocking simulations became a founding interest in the gap between generative models and the material world.
Aranda and Lasch met while studying architecture in graduate school, and by the early 2000s had founded the studio in New York City and Tucson to explore algorithmic systems.,,Since 2006, the studio has collaborated with the Tohono O'odham basket weaver Terrol Dew Johnson on woven sculptures that pair algorithmic form with Native basket-weaving traditions, work that entered the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.,In 2008, the studio's Rules of Six, inspired by photographer Wilson Bentley's proof that snowflakes are six-sided yet never identical, was shown at the Museum of Modern Art as part of “Design and the Elastic Mind”, curated by Paola Antonelli.,
In 2022, the studio released Primitives on Art Blocks Curated, combining Albrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving Melencholia I with the geometry of quasicrystals, aperiodic structures whose patterns never repeat.,Each token can be rotated to reveal that its engraving-like surface is a three-dimensional object, with variations drawn from Dürer's hatching and sketch techniques.The related series Henge reimagines prehistoric stone circles such as Stonehenge as an alternate algorithmic history, with skies adapted from Giovanni Battista Piranesi's eighteenth-century engravings of Rome.
In 2024, Enlace paired the studio's weaving algorithm with the Parisian chair maker Maison Drucker, releasing 100 tokens as part of the Bright Moments Paris Collection, each redeemable for a handwoven chair or canvas.,In 2025, the studio showed an algorithmic labyrinth rendered as a plaster tablet in the group exhibition “Groundwork” at Heft.
