Marcelo López–Dinardi

Tag: housing

  • ARCHITECTURE META-MATTERS

    ARCHITECTURE META-MATTERS

    ARCHITECTURE META-MATTER(S) is a first year M.Arch studio focusing on introducing why architecture matters and what is the matter of architecture. As an initial course in the graduate program, the course will look at multi-scalar conditions and will find the role, opportunity, and limits of architecture. ARCHITECTURE META-MATTER(S) will research the territorial conditions in our immediate context of Bryan and College Station, TX including technology, bodies, and natural/built environments, to help find clues to reimagine our living environment. The analysis of mobility, communications, energy, ecology and built-objects will set the framework for the proposal of a new meta-matter for architecture.…

  • PROMISED AIR AT MoCAD

    PROMISED AIR AT MoCAD

    Promised Land Air, A(n) Office’s contribution to the 2016 US Pavilion for the architecture Venice Biennale, is now on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit in its first tour stop. Projects will be on display in Detroit until April 16 and will continue their tour to Los Angeles. More about the project here. Researcher, Designer, 2016. Photo Courtesy of MoCAD.

  • US PAVILION 2016 PROMISED L-A-N-D AIR

    US PAVILION 2016 PROMISED L-A-N-D AIR

    Promised L-a-n-d Air, the A(n) Office proposal for Mexicantown/Southwest Detroit, engages the consequences of North American infrastructure for urban housing, industrial plants, international institutions, and air quality. The program for the almost 10-acre site is conceived as layers of remediation–remediating the displacement of nearby residents, remediating the proliferation of trucks in residential neighborhoods, and remediating the air pollution emitted by industry and diesel engines. Exhibited in the U.S. Pavilion for the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. Researcher, Designer, 2016.  

  • ARCHITECTURE OF INDUSTRIOUSNESS

    Architecture of Industriousness is a short text part of House Housing: An Untimely History ofArchitecture and Real Estate in Nineteen Episodes, exhibition’s pamphlet, made for the traveling exhibition Venice’s Casa Muraro during the summer of 2014, and off-Venice Biennale site. Also available on the web at http://www.house-housing.com.  Research and Production Coordinator for the Venice part of the exhibition by the Buell Center of the Study of American Architecture, 2014.