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POST DISASTER–FUTURES
Very excited that the book Post–Disaster Futures: Ruin, Repair, and Decolonial Imagination in Puerto Rico will be published by Haymarket Books on November 17, 2026. The book includes my text “Undoing Cemented Dreams” part of a project that explores cement not solely as a construction material, but as a cultural agent implicated in the shaping of Puerto Rico’s modernist aspirations and national imaginaries. Cement became central to governmental development strategies and symbolic of progress, embedding itself in both physical and ideological infrastructures. In the wake of this now-historic enterprise, the work asks: to what extent were Puerto Rico’s visions of…
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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 as a cultural agent until today. You can listen to the recorded conversation, in Spanish only, here.
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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.
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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.
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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 around topics of—but not limited to, how and what constitutes the public and the commons, and: institutions, commoning, landscapes, justice, measures, cooperation, water, ecologies, language, and appearance. Guests included Marina Otero Verzier, Pelin Tan, Elise Hunchuck, Bryan Lee Jr., AD-WO (Emanuel Admassu, Jen Wood), COOPIA…
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ABOUT
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.…
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