“Mute Icons & other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture”

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Marcelo Spina

Marcelo Spina, AIA, 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. His work reveals a rigorous and 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. Spina has been a design faculty at SCI-Arc since 2001. He is the editor of Material Beyond Materials: Composite Tectonics and PATTERNS: Embedded, the studio’s first monograph, published in 2010 by Shanghai-based ACDCU.

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