Marcelo López-Dinardi is an Associate Professor of architecture at Texas A&M University (TAMU). His work explores architecture’s entanglements with culture. He is the editor of Architecture from Public to Commons (Routledge, 2023) and Degrowth (ARQ 111, 2022), and co-editor of Promiscuous Encounters (Columbia GSAPP Books, 2014). López-Dinardi’s words and works have been featured in the Venice Biennale, JUMEX Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Istanbul Design Biennial, Citygroup, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Old Armory of the Puerto Rico’s National Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art-PR, CAAPPR, The Avery Review, JSAH, The Architect’s Newspaper, Domus, Art Forum, Planning Perspectives, URBAN_NEXT, PLAT, ARQ, Materia, among others.
Recently, López-Dinardi was a 2025-26 TAMU Melbern G. Glasscock Humanities Research Center Fellow selected to advance his research project about the role of cement as a cultural agent in Puerto Rico. Before that, he was a 2023-2024 Bridging the Divides: Post-Disaster Futures Fellow for CENTRO-Hunter College and Princeton University initiating his project examining cement in Puerto Rico. Before joining Texas A&M, he was a Fellow for the New Museum’s Ideas City Athens (2016) and Arles (2017), 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 city-research and exhibition platform CIUDADLAB and the school’s journal Polimorfo. His work while a partner of A(n) Office was exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2016. His earlier 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 was also 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 in the city of New York.
