Maxi Spina

Background

About Maxi Spina

Maxi Spina, a graduate of the National University of Rosario (B.Arch with Honors) and Princeton University (M.Arch), 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. In 2007 he founded Maxi Spina Architecture, a design office in Los Angeles. MSA’s work focused on drawing as a tool inextricably linked to the formal and material constitution of the architectural object and the sensory world created by it. In 2016, Maxi and partner Jia Gu co-founded Spinagu, a creative studio dedicated to architecture and design. The studio produces traditional architectural projects, such as rooms, houses, and towers, alongside non-traditional objects, such as text, exhibitions, and chess sets. Spinagu is interested in architecture as a conceptual practice through which to engage culture, technology, materials, and form. Spina is the recipient of numerous accolades from the Chicago Athenaeum, AIA-LA, Architect Magazine and ACSA; a finalist in Architizer A+ Awards; and recipient of a Graham Foundation Grant and three Maxine Frankel Awards for Research. Maxi’s work has been exhibited in Sci-arc gallery; Wurster Gallery in Berkeley; A+D Museum; WUHO and Jai & Jai in Los Angeles. Maxi has worked for Neil Denari Architects and Studio Daniel Libeskind.