Marcelo Spina

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Marcelo Spina
Born(1970-07-23)July 23, 1970
Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Nationality American
Occupation(s)Architect, Educator
Spouse Georgina Huljich
Children2

Marcelo Spina (born July 23, 1970) is an Argentinean-American architect (AIA) and educator. [1] He is a partner in PATTERNS, which is a Los Angeles-based architecture firm. He founded PATTERNS in 2002. Since 2001, he has been a Design and Applied Studies Faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, SCI-Arc. [2]

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Education

In 1994, he graduated with a B.Arch. from the National University of Rosario in Argentina. In 1997, he received a Master in Advanced Architectural Design from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University in New York. [2]

Career

Spina's previous employers include Gerardo Caballero Architects, RUR Architects and Keller Easterling in New York. [3] In 1998, he opened his own office Banchini + Spina Arquitectos in Rosario, Argentina. [4] [5] From 2005 to 2009, he served as the coordinator of the Applied Studies Program at SCI-Arc [6] and from 2011 to 2019, as the Architectural Technologies Postgraduate Program. [7] He became a member of the board of trustees in 2016. [8]

He has served on national juries and advisory boards such as the Architectural League of New York, Progressive Architecture Awards and the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize. [9] [10] He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Vienna, Innsbruck, Di Tella, and Syracuse among others. [9] [11] [12] [13] Spina was the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University School of Architecture in 2013. [13]

Spina co-authored PATTERNS Embedded (ACDCU, 2010), [14] Material Beyond Materials (SCI-Arc Press 2012) [15] and Mute Icons and other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture (Princeton 2016). [16] [17] He is co-curator of Matters of Sensation at Artists Space with Georgina Huljich. [18]

Projects

Awards and recognition

Among other places, his designs have most notably been exhibited at the Venice Biennale in Italy, [42] MOCA, [43] The Chicago Biennial, [44] The MAK Museum, [45] The Art Institute of Chicago, [28] and the San Francisco MOMA. [46]

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