Maxi Spina, a graduate of Princeton University (M.Arch) and the National University of Rosario (B.Arch with Honors) and, he taught at UC Berkeley (where he earned a Maybeck Fellowship), CCA, Woodbury and UNR, before joining Sci-Arc, where he teaches Design Studio and Applied Studies. Spina is the recipient of numerous accolades from the Chicago Athenaeum, AIA-LA, Architect Magazine and ACSA; and recipient of a Graham Foundation Grant and three Maxine Frankel Awards for Research.
Spina’s work has been exhibited in Wurster Gallery in Berkeley, A+D Museum, WUHO and Jai & Jai in Los Angeles. In 2007 he started his independent studio Maxi Spina Architecture, and in 2016 together with partner Jia Gu they founded Spinagu, a creative studio interested in architecture as a conceptual practice through which to engage culture, technology, materials, and form.
At MacDowell, Spina completed the design of an architectural installation focused on the intersection between scenographic production and architectural display. The project is scheduled to open at a gallery in New York’s Hudson Valley in the summer of 2019. The project follows Spina’s recently completed exhibitions ¡Momento!, designed for The Getty Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA; and Thick, recipient of a Graham Foundation Grant and nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Award for Emerging Architecture.
