OFFICE LOG is a research-based design studio working across architecture, design and art. The studio works from Los Angeles and Mexico, with a focus in investigating the historical, political and social aspects that shape architecture and its subjects. Established by Luis Ortega Govela in 2020, the practice has a broad approach to its output, spanning a range of scales and methods, from  theoretical projects through spatial design, design consultancy and films. Whether working directly with a client’s brief or carrying out self-initiated projects, the studio’s focus is the production of space.

The projects include a wide spectrum of arts, residential and commercial projects, spanning a range of scales from books,  interiors, exhibitions, scenography to new-build houses and films. All our projects promote diversity within contemporary forms of life, designed to address and inspire new ways of being with a focus on historical understandings.  We believe that through the process of carrying out research and writing alongside commercial work, the studio develops singular projects that inform each other.

Completed projects include Garage, a book published by MIT Press on the history of the American Garage, a Suburban development proposal for communal housing in Palo Alto and a documentary on contemporary forms of domesticity titled Garage that premiered at CPH:DOX in 2020. Current projects include a relocation and reconstruction of Case Study House 18 in Los Angeles, a documentary on the invention of mirror glass facades, a book on the development of Preshipanic Suburbias in Mexico, and a hotel in historic Tampico.