Laura Linsi and Roland Reemaa founded LLRRLLRR in 2016. The practice works on research driven projects in art and architecture. As a duo, Laura on Roland always aim to collaborate with people in professional fields, students and wider audiences. Their work often involves physical architectural interventions as stages for discussion both metaphorically and literally. Architecture plays a central role in their practice, not only as a goal, but as a means to investigate topics of informal inventiveness. Their professional experience spans academic work, exhibition making, editorial and curatorial projects and designing of buildings and public realm.
Together with Tadeas Riha, Roland and Laura curated «Weak Monument», the Estonian Pavilion at the XVI Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018. They are the authors of the book «Weak Monument - Architectures Beyond the Plinth» (Zürich: Park Books, 2018). Roland and Laura are the leading architects for the forthcoming 2020 Riga Biennial of Contemporary Art(RIBOCA 2). They were recently guest-editors of the quarterly Estonian Architecture Review MAJA, which they centred around the theme «Author». Amongst executed projects are the installation «Dance of the Dilettanti» for the Estonian Art Museum KUMU, research into informal everyday spaces titled «Found Space» executed during the London Summer Intensive residency programme, the exhibition «Futures That Never Happened» at the Heimtali branch of the Estonian National Museum and an invited participation at the Drawing Matter Archive’s exhibition «Alternative Histories» in London.
Laura and Roland have taught at the Estonian Academy of Arts and at the TU Delft in the Netherlands and the USA. In 2019 Laura and Roland received the biennial «Estonian Young Architects Prize»
Projects
2021 • Refurbishment of a residential house. Tallinn, EST
2020 • Copy. 7th Artishok Art Biennale. Tallinn, EST.
2020 • RIBOCA2. Leading architects for Riga International Biennale of Contemporary Art. Riga, LVA. LINK
2020 • Design for a family house. Pärispea, EST.
2020 • Competition for an elderly house. Mustjala, EST.
2019 • Guest editors of Estonian Architecture Review #98 – Author (Tallinn: Arhitektuurikirjastus, 2019). LINK
2019 • Weaker Monument. XVI Venice Architecture Biennale Estonian pavilion at the Gallery of Estonian Academy of Arts. Tallinn, EST.
2018 • Weak Monument. Estonian pavilion at the XVI Venice Architecture Biennale together with Tadeáš Říha. Venice, ITA. LINK
2018 • You Have Become the Space. Installation for Ingel Vaikla’s solo exhibition in Museum of Contemporay Arts EKKM. Tallinn, EST. LINK
2018 • Futures That Never Happened. A self-initiated research and exhibition at the Estonian National Museum Heimtali branch. Heimtali, EST. LINK
2018 • Shed. Residential extension of a two-storey shed with a sauna. Tartu, EST.
Exhibits
2021 • Othernity. Hungarian pavilion at the XVII Venice Architecture Biennale. Venice, ITA. LINK
2020 • Old Building New Life. Exhibition at Editional Studio. Manchester, GBR. LINK
2019 • Alternative Histories. Exhibition by Drawing Matter, Veldwerk and The Architecture Foundation. London, GBR. LINK
2019 • A Room of One’s Own: Feminist's Questions About Architecture at Estonian Architecture Museum. Tallinn, EST. LINK
2019 • Open Collection: Artist Takes the Floor at Art Museum of Estonia KUMU. Tallinn, EST. LINK
2017 • Summer Show of Slade School of Arts at Camden Arts Centre. London, GBR. LINK
2016 • Baltic Pavilion. Baltic pavilion at the XV Venice Architecture Biennale. Venice, ITA. LINK
Academic
2020–… • LMAA. MSc theory unit curriculum development and tutors of the new Architecture department at the Art Academy of Latvia. Riga, LVA.
2020–… • Meeting Matters. Studio leaders at UAL Central Saint Martins at BA Spatial Practices programme. London, GBR. LINK
2018–… • Presentation Methods. Architectural representation workshops at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Tallinn, EST.
2018–2019 • Meeting Matters. Studio leaders at Estonian Academy of Arts at BA department of Interior Architectude Design. Tallinn, EST. LINK
2015–2017 • In Chicago. Reemaa studio leader at TU Delft MSc programme in chair Complex Projects. Delft/Chicago, NLD/USA. LINK
2013 • Tales of Žužemberk. Workshop at European Architecture Students Assembly. Žužemberk, SLO.
2013 • Guest critics at Oxford Brooks (GBR), The Berlage (NLD), KU Leuven (BEL), TU Delft (NLD), Estonian Academy of Arts (EST), etc.
Lectures & Talks
2020 • London Festival of Architecture – Power of Place. London, GBR. LINK
2020 • European Architecture Student Assembly – EASA. Valga, EST. LINK
2019 • The Comfort Zone panel discussion as part of the Alternative Histories exhibition. London, GBR.
2019 • SI-SU Interior Architecture Symposium. Tallinn, EST. LINK
2018 • Museum of Estonian Architecture – Space Alive. Tallinn, EST. LINK
2016 • SISU Interior Architecture Symposium. Tallinn, EST.
Writing & Editorials
2021 • Tallinn On A Grasp. With Who’s Hand? Exhibition review by Reemaa in Estonian weekly cultural magazine Sirp (Tallinn: Sirp, 2021)
2020 • You Reap What You Measure. Essay by Linsi & Reemaa in SISU—LINE #5 (Tallinn: EKA & ESL, 2020)
2019 • Who Made This? Essay by Reemaa in Estonian Architectural Review #98 (Tallinn: Maja, 2019)
2019 • A Frame in the Landscape. Essay by Linsi & Reemaa in Estonian Architectural Review #95 (Tallinn: Maja, 2019). LINK
2018 • Weak Monument – Architectures Beyond the Plinth. Linsi, Reemaa, Riha (eds) (Zürich: Park Books, 2018). LINK
2018 • You Have Become the Space. Interview with Caroline Voet for Ingel Vaikla’s solo exhibition catalogue (Tallinn: Lugemik 2018). LINK
2016 • Composite Countryside. Essay by Linsi published in The Baltic Atlas (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016). LINK
2016 • The Place I Know, I Study as a Stranger. Essay by Linsi in Estonian Architectural Review #94 (Tallinn: Maja, 2016)
2016 • Curated Hermit. Essay by Reemaa in Cartha–On Relations in Architecture (Zürich: Park Books, 2016). LINK
2016 • Inside Interiority. Essay by Reemaa in Estonian Archtiectural Theory Review - Ehituskunst #58 (Tallinn: EKA, 2016). LINK
2013 • 39 Town Halls – three years of MSc student projects for Tallinn Town Hall. Reemaa, Linsi, Tiisvelt (eds) (Tallinn: Estonian Academy, 2013)
Media & Publications
2020 • LLRRLLRR minireview Thinkers in Space in Estonian monthly cultural newspaper Müürileht. Tallinn, EST.
2019 • Interview in Carnets – Architecture Is Just A Pretext (Venice: Anteferma, 2019). LINK
2018 • Review A Weak Monument: The Estonian Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale by James Taylor-Foster (Pin-Up Magazine, 2018). LINK
2018 • Review Getting Weak by Aaron Sewards (Texas Architect, 2019). PDF
Awards
2019 • Young Architect Prize. By the Estonian Association of Architects. EST
Collaborators
Tadeáš Říha
Hampus Berndtson
Tõnu Tunnel
Hedi Jaansoo
William Le Gresley
Ingel Vaikla
Stuudio Stuudio
BArt
Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM)
Art Museum of Estonia (KUMU)
Museum of Estonian Architecture (EAM)
Museum of Heimtali (ERM)
Kai Art Centre
Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA)
Laura Linsi and Roland Reemaa founded LLRRLLRR in 2016. The practice works on research driven projects in art and architecture. As a duo, Laura on Roland always aim to collaborate with people in professional fields, students and wider audiences. Their work often involves physical architectural interventions as stages for discussion both metaphorically and literally. Architecture plays a central role in their practice, not only as a goal, but as a means to investigate topics of informal inventiveness. Their professional experience spans academic work, exhibition making, editorial and curatorial projects and designing of buildings and public realm.
Together with Tadeas Riha, Roland and Laura curated «Weak Monument», the Estonian Pavilion at the XVI Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018. They are the authors of the book «Weak Monument - Architectures Beyond the Plinth» (Zürich: Park Books, 2018). Roland and Laura are the leading architects for the forthcoming 2020 Riga Biennial of Contemporary Art(RIBOCA 2). They were recently guest-editors of the quarterly Estonian Architecture Review MAJA, which they centred around the theme «Author». Amongst executed projects are the installation «Dance of the Dilettanti» for the Estonian Art Museum KUMU, research into informal everyday spaces titled «Found Space» executed during the London Summer Intensive residency programme, the exhibition «Futures That Never Happened» at the Heimtali branch of the Estonian National Museum and an invited participation at the Drawing Matter Archive’s exhibition «Alternative Histories» in London.
Laura and Roland have taught at the Estonian Academy of Arts and at the TU Delft in the Netherlands and the USA. In 2019 Laura and Roland received the biennial «Estonian Young Architects Prize»
Projects
2021 • Refurbishment of a residential house. Tallinn, EST
2020 • Copy. 7th Artishok Art Biennale. Tallinn, EST.
2020 • RIBOCA2. Leading architects for Riga International Biennale of Contemporary Art. Riga, LVA. LINK
2020 • Design for a family house. Pärispea, EST.
2020 • Competition for an elderly house. Mustjala, EST.
2019 • Guest editors of Estonian Architecture Review #98 – Author (Tallinn: Arhitektuurikirjastus, 2019). LINK
2019 • Weaker Monument. XVI Venice Architecture Biennale Estonian pavilion at the Gallery of Estonian Academy of Arts. Tallinn, EST.
2018 • Weak Monument. Estonian pavilion at the XVI Venice Architecture Biennale together with Tadeáš Říha. Venice, ITA. LINK
2018 • You Have Become the Space. Installation for Ingel Vaikla’s solo exhibition in Museum of Contemporay Arts EKKM. Tallinn, EST. LINK
2018 • Futures That Never Happened. A self-initiated research and exhibition at the Estonian National Museum Heimtali branch. Heimtali, EST. LINK
2018 • Shed. Residential extension of a two-storey shed with a sauna. Tartu, EST.
Exhibits
2021 • Othernity. Hungarian pavilion at the XVII Venice Architecture Biennale. Venice, ITA. LINK
2020 • Old Building New Life. Exhibition at Editional Studio. Manchester, GBR. LINK
2019 • Alternative Histories. Exhibition by Drawing Matter, Veldwerk and The Architecture Foundation. London, GBR. LINK
2019 • A Room of One’s Own: Feminist's Questions About Architecture at Estonian Architecture Museum. Tallinn, EST. LINK
2019 • Open Collection: Artist Takes the Floor at Art Museum of Estonia KUMU. Tallinn, EST. LINK
2017 • Summer Show of Slade School of Arts at Camden Arts Centre. London, GBR. LINK
2016 • Baltic Pavilion. Baltic pavilion at the XV Venice Architecture Biennale. Venice, ITA. LINK
Academic
2020–… • LMAA. MSc theory unit curriculum development and tutors of the new Architecture department at the Art Academy of Latvia. Riga, LVA.
2020–… • Meeting Matters. Studio leaders at UAL Central Saint Martins at BA Spatial Practices programme. London, GBR. LINK
2018–… • Presentation Methods. Architectural representation workshops at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Tallinn, EST.
2018–2019 • Meeting Matters. Studio leaders at Estonian Academy of Arts at BA department of Interior Architectude Design. Tallinn, EST. LINK
2015–2017 • In Chicago. Reemaa studio leader at TU Delft MSc programme in chair Complex Projects. Delft/Chicago, NLD/USA. LINK
2013 • Tales of Žužemberk. Workshop at European Architecture Students Assembly. Žužemberk, SLO.
2013 • Guest critics at Oxford Brooks (GBR), The Berlage (NLD), KU Leuven (BEL), TU Delft (NLD), Estonian Academy of Arts (EST), etc.
Lectures & Talks
2020 • London Festival of Architecture – Power of Place. London, GBR. LINK
2020 • European Architecture Student Assembly – EASA. Valga, EST. LINK
2019 • The Comfort Zone panel discussion as part of the Alternative Histories exhibition. London, GBR.
2019 • SI-SU Interior Architecture Symposium. Tallinn, EST. LINK
2018 • Museum of Estonian Architecture – Space Alive. Tallinn, EST. LINK
2016 • SISU Interior Architecture Symposium. Tallinn, EST.
Writing & Editorials
2021 • Tallinn On A Grasp. With Who’s Hand? Exhibition review by Reemaa in Estonian weekly cultural magazine Sirp (Tallinn: Sirp, 2021)
2020 • You Reap What You Measure. Essay by Linsi & Reemaa in SISU—LINE #5 (Tallinn: EKA & ESL, 2020)
2019 • Who Made This? Essay by Reemaa in Estonian Architectural Review #98 (Tallinn: Maja, 2019)
2019 • A Frame in the Landscape. Essay by Linsi & Reemaa in Estonian Architectural Review #95 (Tallinn: Maja, 2019). LINK
2018 • Weak Monument – Architectures Beyond the Plinth. Linsi, Reemaa, Riha (eds) (Zürich: Park Books, 2018). LINK
2018 • You Have Become the Space. Interview with Caroline Voet for Ingel Vaikla’s solo exhibition catalogue (Tallinn: Lugemik 2018). LINK
2016 • Composite Countryside. Essay by Linsi published in The Baltic Atlas (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016). LINK
2016 • The Place I Know, I Study as a Stranger. Essay by Linsi in Estonian Architectural Review #94 (Tallinn: Maja, 2016)
2016 • Curated Hermit. Essay by Reemaa in Cartha–On Relations in Architecture (Zürich: Park Books, 2016). LINK
2016 • Inside Interiority. Essay by Reemaa in Estonian Archtiectural Theory Review - Ehituskunst #58 (Tallinn: EKA, 2016). LINK
2013 • 39 Town Halls – three years of MSc student projects for Tallinn Town Hall. Reemaa, Linsi, Tiisvelt (eds) (Tallinn: Estonian Academy, 2013)
Media & Publications
2020 • LLRRLLRR minireview Thinkers in Space in Estonian monthly cultural newspaper Müürileht. Tallinn, EST.
2019 • Interview in Carnets – Architecture Is Just A Pretext (Venice: Anteferma, 2019). LINK
2018 • Review A Weak Monument: The Estonian Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale by James Taylor-Foster (Pin-Up Magazine, 2018). LINK
2018 • Review Getting Weak by Aaron Sewards (Texas Architect, 2019). PDF
Awards
2019 • Young Architect Prize. By the Estonian Association of Architects. EST
Collaborators
Tadeáš Říha
Hampus Berndtson
Tõnu Tunnel
Hedi Jaansoo
William Le Gresley
Ingel Vaikla
Stuudio Stuudio
BArt
Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM)
Art Museum of Estonia (KUMU)
Museum of Estonian Architecture (EAM)
Museum of Heimtali (ERM)
Kai Art Centre
Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA)