Marcelo Spina – Actar Publishers

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Architect AIA [Rosario, Argentina, 1970]

Architect and educator Marcelo Spina holds a Professional Degree from the National University of Rosario, Argentina and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University in New York. He worked for RUR / Reiser+Umemoto and Keller Easterling in New York and for Gerardo Caballero in Rosario before opening his own office. Spina has been part of the design faculty at SCI-Arc since 2001 and was the coordinator of the Architectural Technologies Program from 2011 to 2019. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania; Yale; Syracuse; Harvard; University of California, Berkeley; Tulane; Washington University, St. Louis; University of Vienna; University of Innsbruck; and Di Tella University, among others. Mr. Spina has been a member of the Board of Trustees at SCI-Arc since 2016 and has served in national juries for the Progressive Architecture Awards (P/A Awards), The Architectural League of New York, and Mies Crown Hall America’s Prize, among others.
Marcelo Spina founded PATTERNS in Los Angeles in 2002 as a speculative platform to explore an increasingly global design culture.

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Mute Icons

Marcelo Spina, Georgina Huljich/ P-A-T-T-E-R-N-SInterrogating historical, contemporary, and speculative images, the book aims to construct a viable alternative to the icon’s cliché.

& Other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture Marcelo Spina & Georgina Huljich with Constance Vale/ P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S Interrogating historical, contemporary, and — more importantly— speculative images, ‘Mute Icons & Other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture’ aims to construct a viable alternative to the icon’s cliché and exhausted form of communication, positing one that is decidedly introverted and withdrawn. Developing a language and a sensibility for discovering simultaneous, contradictory, and even unexpected readings of architectural form, Marcelo Spina & Georgina Huljich / PATTERNS’s new book Mute Icons, aims to carve out a niche in contemporary culture and history by suggesting that far from being a crowd-pleaser, architecture can persist within society as a constructive cultural and social irritant. No longer concerned with narrative excesses or with the "shock and awe" of sensation making; the mute icon becomes intriguing in its deceptive indifference towards context, perplexing in its unmitigated apathy towards the body. Object

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Against the Grain

Marcelo Spina, Georgina Huljich, Dan Wood, Lisa Gray, Alan OrganschiAgainst the Grain, features the work of three studios of the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at Yale

Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship series Marcelo Spina, Georgina Huljich, Dan Wood, Lisa Gray, Alan Organschi Against the Grain, features the work of three studios of the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at Yale. Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich in Brutal Beauty: Piles, Monoliths and the Incongruous Whole explored ways to make mute icons through monolithic form so that the buildings were foreign to their context and difficult to read formally for a film center in Los Angeles. Dan Wood in Boulevard Triumphant: ecological infrastructure, architecture, modernization, and the image of the city a studio for a civic center in Gabon that challenged the architectural language in Africa beyond the clich's and nostalgia to create an architecture that embodied a new ambition. Lisa Gray and Alan Organschi in 'Timber Innovation District: new timber technologies and contemporary high performance wood architecture researched wood as a material for larger-scale projects for a

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