STUDIO

Architecture is everywhere—not only in built work. The work of an architect can take many forms, through designing and building, and also repairing, inquiring, and re-aligning.

Spinagu is a Los Angeles-based architecture practice that builds, curates, writes, researches, questions, and organizes—towards a systems repair of our field. Our practice is a process, one focused on ideas and inquiries, and also relationships. In our work, we are experimenting with what it means to be a small, critical, and independent practice.

Our work engages in building as an extension of architectural thinking, where we can invest in liveliness, tending, making, and advocating. We see architecture as a form of knowledge production — developing ideas, processes, and working conditions that lead to the built work and our shared environments—and we learn from and think through various lines of inquiry, asking how to re-rebuild our material ecologies; situate work within feminist ethics of care; advance systems repair in our field; design housing for equitable equity; and re-envision institutions as propositions. The output takes many forms, durable and ephemeral: housing, institutions, exhibitions, books, furniture, dialogues, gatherings, experiments, workshops, and social technologies. 

Spinagu is directed by Jia Yi Gu and Maxi Spina. Get in touch.