Maxi Spina

Maxi Spina is an Argentinian architect, educator, and co-director of Spinagu, a Los Angeles–based architecture and research practice working across buildings, exhibitions, publications, installations, and cultural initiatives. Spina is Design Faculty and Undergraduate Thesis Coordinator at SCI-Arc, where he has helped shape contemporary architectural practice through teaching, research, and public programming. His work operates at the intersection of design, representation, research, and material experimentation, advancing architecture as both a cultural and civic practice. As co-director of Spinagu, Spina has led projects ranging from exhibition design and cultural programming for the Getty Foundation and Craft Contemporary to award-winning built work and research initiatives spanning housing to material experimentation. The studio's projects have been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Getty Foundation, Graham Foundation for the Advanced Study of Fine Arts, and California Council of the Arts. The work has received numerous distinctions from institutions such as the Chicago Athenaeum, American Institute of Architects, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), and the City of Los Angeles.

Maxi is a graduate of the National University of Rosario and Princeton University, and was a MacDowell Fellow and former Maybeck Fellow at UC Berkeley.