Marcelo Spina | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Architect, Educator |
Spouse | Georgina Huljich |
Children | 2 |
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]
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]
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]
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]