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Marcelo Spina, is a licensed Architect in Argentina and in the United States. He is one the principal of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S. He received his B.Arch from the National University of Rosario, Argentina [1994], and a M.Arch from Columbia University, New York [1997]. In New York, he worked for Reiser+Umemoto and Keller Easterling before starting on his own. Spina is a Design Faculty at SCI-Arc since 2001, and the coordinator of the Architectural Technologies Program. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Yale, Syracuse, Harvard, Berkeley, Vienna, Innsbruck, and Di Tella among others. He is the Co-Author of Embedded [ACDCU, 2010], Co-Editor of Material Beyond Materials [SCI-Arc 2012] and Co-Curator of "Matters of Sensation" at Artists Space [2008]. His work has been published and exhibited widely and Spina has given more than 70 lectures around the world. Georgina Huljich is an architect and one the principals of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S. She received her B.Arch from the National University of Rosario, Argentina [2001], and a M.Arch from University of California, Los Angeles [2003]. Georgina has previously worked at the Guggenheim Museum, Dean/Wolf Architects in New York, and Morphosis in Los Angeles. Huljich is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture at UCLA and the Director of the Summer Program Institute. She has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Yale, UPenn and Syracuse, a Maybeck Fellow at UC Berkeley and a Visiting Critic at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She is the Co-Author of Embedded [ACDCU, 2010] and Co-Curator of "Matters of Sensation" at Artists Space [2008]. Her work has been widely published and exhibited around the world.