The P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S agency was founded in Los Angeles in 2002 by Marcelo Spina, a graduate of the National University of Rosario and Columbia University and educator at the SCI-Arc, who in 2006 was joined by Georgina Huljich, a fellow graduate of the National University of Rosario, and of the UCLA. P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S envisages design at all scales, from an everyday object to a master plan. The agency has completed projects in the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia. Its work has been published and exhibited worldwide, most notably at the Venice Biennale, the Chicago Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco MoMA, and the MAK Museum Vienna, where it is also part of the permanent collection. Embedded, P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S’s first monograph, was published in 2010 by ACDCU. A forthcoming publication entitled Mute Icons: A Pressing Dichotomy in Contemporary Architecture will be released in autumn 2019 by ACTAR Press. Marcelo Spina is and Georgina Huljich is an adjunct associate professor at the Department of Architecture at UCLA.
