Tuesday Feb. 20th
Marcelo Spina, an Argentinean-American architect and educator, co-founded the award-winning firm PATTERNS in 2002 in Los Angeles. His work emphasizes cultural and social relevance, contemporary aesthetics, and emerging technologies. Spina teaches at SCI-Arc and other prestigious universities, and is an author of “Material Beyond Materials: Composite Tectonics & PATTERNS: Embedded.
Using Patterns’ most recent book ‘Mute Icons & other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture’ as well as recent buildings and projects by the innovative Los Angeles-based studio, Marcelo Spina’s lecture addressed his office’s unique position and take on the complex balance between the need for cultural identity, the continuing pursue of the new, the relevance of history and the environmental implications of architecture in today’s changing world.
