Marcelo López-Dinardi is an Associate Professor of architecture at Texas A&M University. His work explores architecture’s entanglements with culture. He is the editor of Architecture from Public to Commons (Routledge, 2023) and Degrowth (ARQ, 2022), and co-editor of Promiscuous Encounters (GSAPP Books, 2013). López-Dinardi’s words and works have been featured in the JUMEX Museum, MoCAD, Istanbul Design Biennial, Citygroup, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Old Armory of the Spanish Navy of Puerto Rico’s National Gallery, MAC-PR, CAAPPR, The Avery Review, The Architect’s Newspaper, Domus, Art Forum, URBAN_NEXT, PLAT, ARQ, Materia, and Bitácora Arquitectura.
López-Dinardi is 2025-26 TAMU Melbern G. Glasscock Humanities Research Center Fellow elected to advance his cement research. Before that, he was a 2023-2024 Bridging the Divides: Post-Disaster Futures Fellow for CENTRO-Hunter College with a project examining cement’s entanglements with culture in Puerto Rico. Before joining Texas A&M, he was a Fellow for the New Museum’s Ideas City Athens and Arles, and taught at Barnard+Columbia, NJIT, Pratt Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, RISD, and the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (PUPR 2005-2011) where he co-founded the research and exhibition platform CIUDADLAB and the school’s journal Polimorfo. His work as a partner of A(n) Office was exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2016. His architectural design work has been awarded several times by the AIA and the Puerto Rico Architect’s Association. In 2022, he was nationally elected At-Large Director for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s (ACSA) Board of Directors for 2022-2025. At Texas A&M he is an affiliated faculty for the Humanities and the Anthropocene group. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the PUPR (cum laude) and an MS in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices for architecture from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University.
Past collaborators include: MILM2, Tyrene Calvesbert, Isabelle-Kirkham Lewitt, Harrison Ratcliff-Bush, Marina Otero Verzier, Nina Valerie Kolowratnik, Francisco Díaz, Oscar Oliver-Didier, Pier Paolo Pala, Chau Tran, Yuliya Veligurskaya.
Marcelo López–Dinardi 