Mekan Konuşmaları no: 106 Marcelo Spina

Mekan Konuşmaları No.106 Marcelo Spina // 04.03.2024 @13.00, KD6 - Kazandibi

"Mute Icons & Other Recent Works"

We are pleased to announce that Marcelo Spina will be our guest with his talk "Mute Icons & Other Recent Works" in the 106th episode of Mekan Konuşmaları, hosted by the students of the Graduate Programs in Architecture at Istanbul Bilgi University.

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 will address his office’s unique position and take on the complex balance between the need for cultural identity, the continuing pursuit of the new, the relevance of history and the environmental implications of architecture in today’s changing world.

Part history, part theory, and part monographic atlas, ‘Mute Icons’ 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alternative to the icon’s cliché and exhausted form of communication, positing one that is decidedly introverted and withdrawn.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, PATTERNS’ book 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.

Marcelo Spina is an Argentinian-American Architect and Educator. Along with Georgina Huljich, he is a partner in the award-winning architectural firm PATTERNS, which he founded in 2002 in Los Angeles 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 professor at SCI-Arc since 2001 and has taught at many other institutions including UPenn, Yale, Harvard GSD, Syracuse and Di Tella in Buenos Aires. He is the author of ‘Material Beyond Materials: Composite Tectonics’, ‘PATTERNS: Embedded’, the studio’s first monograph published in 2010, and the recently released ‘Mute icons & other Dichotomies of the Real in Architecture’.

The talk will be in English and is open to everyone.

Date: 04.03.2024 Monday

Time: 13:00

Place: santralistanbul Campus, KD6 - Kazandibi