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Mute Icons and Other Dichotomies in the Real in Architecture
Marcelo Spina
Marcelo Spina is an Argentinean-American Architect and Educator. Along with Georgina Huljich, he is a partner in Los Angeles-based PATTERNS, which he founded in 2002 as a speculative platform to explore an increasingly global design culture. The firm brings a progressive approach to projects and buildings across scales, agendas and geographies, insisting on the cultural and social relevance of architectural form, contemporary aesthetics and emerging technologies.
As a licensed architect in Argentina and in the United States, Mr. Spina has more than twenty years of experience designing and executing distinctive buildings worldwide, gaining a reputation as one of the most innovative architects in contemporary design culture. He received his BArch from the National University of Rosario, Argentina and a M.Arch from Columbia University, New York. Mr. Spina is a Design Faculty at Southern California Institute of Architecture [SCI-Arc] since 200. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Yale, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, Harvard, Berkeley, Innsbruck, and Di Tella among others. PATTERNS’s built and unbuilt work has received many important awards including Local and National AIA awards, American Architecture Award, Young Architect of the Year, Architectural League’s Emerging Voices and the prestigious USA Artists Fellowship, an endowment that recognizes America’s most accomplished and innovative artists.
Spina’s work has been widely published and exhibited worldwide, most notably at the Venice Biennale, The Chicago Biennial, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, The Art Institute of Chicago, The San Francisco MOMA and The MAK Museum in Vienna, where is also part of the permanent collection. He is the Co-Author of Embedded [ACDCU, 2010], Co-Editor of Material Beyond Materials [SCI-Arc 2012] and Co-Curator of Matters of Sensation at Artists Space [2008]. His forthcoming book Mute Icons and other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture [ACTAR] will be released to the public in Summer 2020.
Mr. Spina is the author of ‘Material Beyond Materials: Composite Tectonics, by SCI-Arc Press, the co-author ‘PATTERNS: Embedded’, PATTERNS first monograph published in 2010 by Shanghai based ACDCU and the forthcoming ‘Mute Icons & other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture’, by ACTAR Press, Barcelona
Born and raised in Rosario, Argentina, Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich are both renowned architects and distinguished educators. Together, they lead the Los Angeles-based and award-winning architectural practice PATTERNS, which they founded in 2002 as a speculative platform to explore an increasingly global design culture. Their work reveals a rigorous and progressive approach to projects and buildings across materials, scales, agendas and geographies, insisting on the cultural and social relevance of architectural form, contemporary aesthetics and emerging technologies. Their books include ‘PATTERNS: Embedded’, the studio first monograph published in 2010 by Shanghai based ACDCU and ‘Mute Icons & other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture’ recently released by ACTAR Press. Marcelo Spina is a Design Faculty at SCI-Arc and Georgina Huljich is an Associate Professor at UCLA AUD. They are also visiting professors at the Weitzman School of Design.
Georgina Huljich
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PATTERNS is a leading architectural practice led by partners Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich. The studio brings a critical and progressive approach to projects across scales, programs, and geographies, insisting on the cultural and social relevance of architectural form, contemporary aesthetics, and emerging technologies. Based in Los Angeles, the forward-looking studio takes advantage of the city’s decidedly global stance and idiosyncratic identity to create engaging and speculative architectural projects that become civic and cultural landmarks within the public realm.
PATTERNS gained international recognition as one of the most intriguing and broadminded firms in contemporary architecture with work exhibited worldwide, most notably at the Venice Biennale in Italy, The Chicago Biennial, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, The Art Institute of Chicago, The San Francisco MOMA, The MAK Museum in Vienna, and The FRAC in Orleans, where it is also part of their permanent collections.
PATTERNS work has been published extensively and has been the subject of numerous essays, books, magazines, newspapers, and catalogues.
PATTERNS is a registered Women Owned Business, Minority Owned Business and Small Business Enterprise.
