LAAM is a landscape architecture studio founded in 2018, rooted in a collaboration between Lorenzo Acciai and Daniele Morini, both Landscape Architects, which began during their university years. The studio operates with offices in Florence and Shanghai.
Their professional experience, shaped by past and ongoing projects and enriched by international influences, comes together in a dynamic, contemporary and essential design approach. Their work is deeply attentive to the historical identity of each place, while allowing the power and uniqueness of natural elements to take centre stage and guide the creative process.
They believe that good design begins with an in-depth understanding of a place and its history. These elements provide the foundation for a coherent architecture, in harmony with its surroundings, capable of enhancing every nuance and distinctive quality of the site. Their projects are characterised by the use of strong and distinctive gestures, giving each intervention its own identity and character.
Committed to a sustainable approach that respects both the landscape and its history, LAAM explores innovative techniques, makes use of local materials and carefully selects native plant species.
Lorenzo Acciai
Co-founder of LAAM since 2018.
He graduated in Forest and Environmental Sciences from the University of Florence, and subsequently obtained a degree in Landscape Architecture from Sapienza University of Rome in 2009.
After a period of professional experience at Studio Vegetazione&Paesaggio in Rome, he moved to China in 2011, working as a Landscape Architect first in Hangzhou for the Sorara Group, then in Nanjing at Jiangsu Weixin Engineering, and finally in Shanghai, where he founded 5M Architects in 2014.
During the 2017–2018 academic year, he was invited to work as an assistant and tutor at Shanghai’s Donghua University and at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) in Suzhou, where he taught courses in Urban Design, Landscape Architecture and Architecture.
Daniele Morini
Co-founder of LAAM since 2018.
Passionate about landscape architecture from an early age, he studied at the Agricultural Technical Institute of Florence, before graduating with honours in Garden and Landscape Architecture in 2006, and in Landscape Architecture from Sapienza University of Rome in 2009.
After graduating, he began his professional career at A&P Architettura del Paesaggio, led by architects Emanuele Von Norman and Flavio Trinca.
He subsequently gained professional experience in the United States, before pursuing his independent practice between Rome and Florence.
