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Robert Marino was initially trained as an engineer at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He later completed his graduate studies in architecture at Princeton University. He served his architectural apprenticeship in the office of Michael Graves where he worked on numerous projects including the addition of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
He is currently teaching design studio at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1985. From 2003-2008 he taught design studios at Harvard University, and from 1991 to 1998 at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a distinguished vistiting critic at the Technische Universität München, the Ecole d'Architecture de Nancy, City College of New York, and the University of Arizona. At the University of Pennsylvania, he developed a course, Forms of Process, dedicated to the exploration of the possibility of manual techniques as the initiator form. His work has been extensively published in periodicals and books in Europe and the United States. A monograph, Robert Marino, has recently been released by Rockport Press as part of a series, "Contemporary World Architects". |
Reprinted from "Robert Marino, Contemporary World Architects"
Robert Marino, architect, engineer, and teacher has built an amazing array of residential projects within a two hour travel radius of New York City. These elegant structures are situated within, and sometimes attached to, the relatively unenergized housing fabric of the city and suburb. Understood individually, each project presents itself as a unique architectural proposition; understood as a body or work, the common themes within various projects begin to appear. While he has many intuitive tools at his disposal, his projects always begin with the potential for unencumbered structure to be the best means for architectural expression.
"Committed to the practice of architecture as a practical/cultural service in an everyday sense- an article of faith that is not without its wider political implications- Marino's work always seems to gravitate towards the creation of form and that is structural cellular at the level of enveloping membrane; the moire, the laminate, the pleat, the egg crate, and the folded plate, these are the building blocks out of which his surprising and exuberant inventions are invariably made"
Kenneth Frampton
Robert Marino, architect, engineer, and teacher has built an amazing array of residential projects within a two hour travel radius of New York City. These elegant structures are situated within, and sometimes attached to, the relatively unenergized housing fabric of the city and suburb. Understood individually, each project presents itself as a unique architectural proposition; understood as a body or work, the common themes within various projects begin to appear. While he has many intuitive tools at his disposal, his projects always begin with the potential for unencumbered structure to be the best means for architectural expression.
"Committed to the practice of architecture as a practical/cultural service in an everyday sense- an article of faith that is not without its wider political implications- Marino's work always seems to gravitate towards the creation of form and that is structural cellular at the level of enveloping membrane; the moire, the laminate, the pleat, the egg crate, and the folded plate, these are the building blocks out of which his surprising and exuberant inventions are invariably made"
Kenneth Frampton