{"id":5508,"date":"2024-02-21T06:44:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T06:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/?p=5508"},"modified":"2024-02-21T06:44:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T06:44:26","slug":"a-discussion-with-marcelo-spina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/en\/a-discussion-with-marcelo-spina\/","title":{"rendered":"A Discussion with Marcelo Spina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday Feb. 20<sup>th<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;Material Beyond Materials: Composite Tectonics &amp; PATTERNS: Embedded.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5510 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"857\" height=\"643\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using Patterns\u2019 most recent book <em>\u2018Mute Icons &amp; other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture\u2019<\/em> as well as recent buildings and projects by the innovative Los Angeles-based studio, Marcelo Spina\u2019s lecture addressed his office\u2019s 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\u2019s changing world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5511 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"824\" height=\"618\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5512 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"887\" height=\"665\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5513 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dr-Alia-Spina.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1430\" height=\"1073\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday Feb. 20th Marcelo Spina, an Argentinean-American architect and educator, co-founded the award-winning firm PATTERNS in 2002 in Los Angeles&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,151,19],"tags":[172],"college-department":[{"term_id":10,"name":"College of Engineering","slug":"college-of-engineering","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":10,"taxonomy":"college-department","description":"","parent":0,"count":272,"filter":"raw"}],"class_list":["post-5508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-lectures","category-students","tag-patterns-in-2002","college-department-college-of-engineering"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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