Patterns is an award-winning and innovative architectural practice led by Argentinian-American partners Georgina Huljich and Marcelo Spina. The firm brings a critical and progressive approach to projects across scales, agendas, and geographies, insisting on the cultural and social relevance of architectural form, emerging technologies, and contemporary aesthetics. Based in Los Angeles, PATTERNS takes advantage of the city’s decidedly global stance and idiosyncratic identity to create equally engaging and speculative architectural projects that operate beyond their required functionality becoming civic and cultural landmarks within the public realm.
Founded in 2002, the firm approaches design and architecture with a deep working knowledge of nascent technologies and materials integrated into thoughtful form making. Closely working with each client and their needs as well as the characteristics of a site, each design follows a distinctive approach to massing, material articulation and spatial aesthetics, while responding to their context, considering local materials, building methods, ecological, social and cultural conditions. Often the architecture is iconic and operates beyond its functional program to become a landmark for the community, city and greater public realm.
Patterns has worked across the globe with built projects in the United States, Europe, South America and Asia. The firm has worked on multiple scales and program types that include residential, commercial, mixed-use, cultural, healthcare, hospitality and urban planning projects. Notable completed projects include residential building Jujuy Redux in Rosario, Argentina, the mixed-use building Chengdu Eye of Time in Chengdu, China, the Prism Gallery in Los Angeles, California, the recently completed Victory Healthcare in North Hollywood, California (AIA/LA Design Award 2016), and completed and ongoing private residences in Argentina and California.
