college station TEXAS

Marcelo Spina, is co-founder of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, a Los-Angeles based design/research architectural practice.

lecture: Marcelo SPINA, “Current Dichotomies and the Predicament of the Whole.”
Monday, 03/31
5.45 p.m. / Geren Auditorium
Texas A&M Department of Architecture
College Station, TX

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2011

Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich are principals of the office PATTERNS founded in Los Angeles in 1999. The research and collaborative based approach of the practice seeks to move between digital and material expressions. PATTERNS describes its form-making as Driven by digital techniques and advanced computation. . . .

los angeles CALIFORNIA

Marcelo Spina talks piling, flexible composites, the role of precedent and new media in architecture education today, SCI-Arc’s ESTm post-professional degree program, and much more.

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san luis obispo CALIFORNIA

Marcelo Spina is a Design Professor at SCI-Arc and the Coordinator of the newly launched Emerging Systems and Technologies post-graduate program. Along with Georgina Huljich, Spina is the Principal of PATTERNS, a design research architectural practice based in Los Angeles that has gained worldwide recognition for its inventive approach to design and architecture, fusing advanced computation with an extended understanding of form, tectonics and materials. Recent commissions include pavilions for SCI-ARC and MOCA.

Marcelo SPINA
Friday, 02/01
4.00–5.00 pm / 
Business Rotunda (03-213)
Cal Poly — San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405

los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S: This building is a proposal for a 120-bed student dormitory for the Pontificia Catholic University of Puerto Rico in Ponce, the second largest city of the island and the old capital before San Juan. As part of a larger master plan aiming to attract students from the whole Caribbean region and fulfill the current demand of 500 apartments, the proposal aims to create a new presence within the campus. Articulating a vertical mass with a figural void that encapsulates the main social areas of the program, our proposal aims to induce human interaction among students and visitors in a vertical environment while enhancing unprecedented urban vistas from and to the historic center of the city just beyond the university campus.

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The LA Forum will host an event marking the publication of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S’s new book, EMBEDDED, bringing together authors, contributors, mentors and confabulators to discuss some of the most relevant issues haunting contemporary architectural practice and discourse today, such as the perceived divide between progressive design culture, the politics of form and social responsibility. EMBEDDED is P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S’s long awaited book that reflects on the evolution, actualization and conclusion of certain lineages of design and material research, while signaling the initial stages of others.

EMBEDDED: Marcelo Spina, Georgina Huljich, Marcelyn Gow, Michael Osman, and Todd Gannon
Thursday, 02/23
6.00–9.00 pm / LA Forum
Vitra Showroom
8753 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232

new york NY

Ball-Nogues Studio; P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S
Benjamin Ball & Gaston Nogues; Marcelo Spina & Georgina Huljich
Introduced by Paul Lewis
Wednesday 30 March 7:00 pm
New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY