Marcelo López–Dinardi

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  • CEMENTED DREAMS ON RADIO

    CEMENTED DREAMS ON RADIO

    I was interviewed about my ongoing project CEMENTED DREAMS for the radio program Arquitectura HOY (Architecture Today) hosted by architect Elliot Santos at WIPR, the radio station of the University of Puerto Rico. In the hour-long conversation I introduce the various themes surrounding the development of the cement industry in Puerto Rico and its unfolding […]

  • ECOLOGIES OF THE MACHINE: EXHIBITION REVIEW

    ECOLOGIES OF THE MACHINE: EXHIBITION REVIEW

    My review of the exhibition, Ecologies of the Machine: Landscapes of Cement and Power, led by Erika Loana and Kim Förster with Tania Tovar from the gallery Proyector in Mexico City is out in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Link here.

  • COMMONING POLICIES

    COMMONING POLICIES

    Commoning Policies was a conversation between Pilar Finuccio of the CUP, Damon Rich from HECTOR urban design and myself as part of KoozArch’s New Rules for School series. Read the exchange here.

  • MAKING THE PUBLIC–COMMONS

    MAKING THE PUBLIC–COMMONS

    MAKING THE PUBLIC–COMMONS was an installation and a conversations-marathon project motivated by the ambition and need to elaborate our positions towards the making and building public–commons, primarily through an act of appearance and conversation much required in our cultural context. The project relied mainly on direct dialogue and embodied engagement. It proposed dialogue and conversations […]

  • ABOUT

    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 […]