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02. 2026MM is now a licensed architect.


12. 2025

MM is invited to participate in Prof. Jennifer Bonner’s final review at Rice University.


10. 2025MM receives a small grant 

 from UC SAID

to attend Mimai Design Week.


04. 2025Stephanie Ahmed, advised by MM, 

receives the Best Thesis Document award upon graduating from

 UC SAID.


02. 2025MM is elected as At-Large Director on the ASCSA Board.&#38;nbsp;


01. 2025
Elections are now open for the ACSA Board of Directors.&#38;nbsp;
11. 2024MM is 

nominated for election for At-Large Director on the ASCSA board
.


10. 2024MM is nominated for ACADIA President.


10. 2024MM and MArch II faculty and students visit The Belden Brick Company, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit, and The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation with the University of Cincinnati SAID as part of a studio funded by The Tri-State Masonry Institute and The Belden Brick Company.
08. 2024
MM teaches thesis writing for the Master of Architecture graduating students at the University of Cincinnati SAID.


02. 2024MM teaches a research seminar on applications of Artificial Intelligence in architecture at the University of Cincinnati SAID.


12. 2023


MM and the MArch II students at the University of Cincinnati SAID present projects that investigate climate action through exuberant material research, biogenic aggregates, and repurposed architecture in Cincinnati's historic neighborhood, Over-The-Rhine. MM and the students greatly appreciated the thoughtful feedback delivered by guest critic John McMorrough form University of Michigan.
10. 2023
MM receives a Faculty Development Grant from the University of Cincinnati SAID.

07. 2023MM is an invited paper reviewer for ACADIA 2023 “Habbits of the Anthropocene” Conference.


06. 2023
MM attends the 2023 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland.


04. 2023MM and students present their research on applications of Artificial Intelligence in architecture at DAAPworks at the University of Cincinnati SAID.

01. 2023MM’s and University of Cincinnati

 MArch students’ cast concrete installation is exhibited at Omya’s headquarters in Cincinnati. 


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12. 2022MM is invited as a special critic for final reviews 

at the Carnegie Mellon’s School of Architecture by&#38;nbsp; Laura 

Garófalo and Heather Bizon.

10. 2022MM receives two Faculty Development Grants from the University of Cincinnati SAID.


09. 2022MM and University of Cincinnati SAID receive sponsorship from Omya for research on lightweight concrete casting.


08. 2022MM teaches a studio focused on concrete casting with Omya at the University of Cincinnati
SAID.
06. 2022
MM is an invited paper reviewer for 

ACADIA 2022 

“Hybrids &#38;amp; Haecceities” Conference.


12. 2021MM is invited for final reviews at the Carnegie Mellon’s School of Architecture by Dana Cupkova.


05. 2021MM is invited for final reviews at California College for the Arts by 

Jason Kelly Johnson

.


04. 2021MM is invited for final reviews at Harvard University Graduate School of Design by 

Jeffry Burchard

.


04. 2021MM is invited for final reviews at 

the Carnegie Mellon’s School of Architecture

by Heather Bizon.


03. 2021MM is invited for reviews at Rice University.

01. 2021MM is invited for final reviews at 

UNAM, México by Marcela Delgado.


10. 2020“BUBBLEgum”, co-written with MingTang and Adam Schueler, is fetaured in the DATA, MATTER, DESIGN: Strategies in Computational Design published with Routledge and edited by Frank Melendez, Nancy Diniz, Marcella Del Signore.


10. 2020
MM chairs the closing paper session entitled “Design
Cultures, Representation, and Aesthetics” at ACADIA 2020: Distributed
Proximities.

05. 2020MM is invited for final reviews at the American University of Beirut’s School
of Architecture by Ghazal Abbasy Asbagh.


05. 2020MM is invited for final reviews on “Design Computation and Fabrication Symposium” at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Architecture by
Heather Bizon.


04. 2020MM is invited for midterm reviews at University of Southern California, School
of Architecture by Alvin Huang.


04. 2020Article entitled “Sticks, stones, pixels, and ink: local architects use digital
tools to shape the built environment” by Julie Carpenter expands on an
interview with MM on education and technology on Soapbox Cincinnati.
04. 2020MM is invited for midterm reviews at The City College of New York in The
Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture by Frank Melendez. 
02. 2020“Freespace/Captivespace” exhibition opens at The Philip M. Meyers, Jr. Memorial Gallery at the
University of Cincinnati.
12. 2019MM is invited for final reviews at the Carnegie Mellon’s School of Architecture
by Dana Cupkova. 
10. 2019Volume 6, Number 5 of the Architectural Science Review Special Issue journal
entitled “Means, Methods, Machines and Making in Architecture”
and co-edited by MM with Mike Christenson, David J. Gerber, Wassim Jabi, and
Andrew John Witt is published with Taylor Francis/Rutledge.
08. 2019MM leads six week long study abroad program, entitled “Freespace/Captivespace”,
in Eastern Europe with the University of Cincinnati SAID.
06. 2019Echos, published with Actar, wins Top 50 Books and Covers in
2018 by the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
06. 2019MM receives tenure at the University of Cincinnati in the College of Design,
Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) and is promoted to Associate Professor at
the School of Architecture and Interior Design (SAID).
05. 2019MM is invited for final reviews at Harvard GSD by Jeffry Burchard. 
04. 2019Images from the project “Augmented Coral” are featured under the “Augmented
Reality” chapter in the book entitled “Drawing from the Model: Digital
Tools, Techniques, and Workflows for Contemporary Architectural Representation”authored by Frank Melendez and published with Wiley and Sons.
03. 2019MM receives UC International Faculty-Led Study Abroad Block Grant for “Freespace/Captivespace”.
12. 2018Echos is published with Actar. You may purchase the 406 page volume here.
12. 2018Volume 16, Issue 4 of the International Journal of Architectural Computing
entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
in Architecture: Autonomy, Agency, and Indeterminacy” and co-edited
by MM with Vera Parlac, Lauren Vasey, Andrew John Witt, Wassim Jabi, Mahesh
Daas, David J. Gerber, and Mark Clayton is published with Sage Publishers.
11. 2018MM is named “Prominent Alumni” by the
University of Houston.
10. 2018MM wins UC International Study Abroad Mentoring Grant and will travel to the
UAE with Distinguished Teaching Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy
Charles Matthews from the Department of Management in the Lindner College of
Business for the United Arab Emirates: Doing Business
in the Middle East program.


10. 2018MM moderates the “Production” Paper Session at the ACADIA
2018: “Re-calibration on Imprecision and Infidelity” Conference in
Mexico City. 
09. 2018MM is re-elected on the Acadia BoD.
08. 2018MM’s interview with Michelle Ralston, featuring the recent exhibit at Palazzo
Bembo with the occasion of the 2018 Venice Biennale, is published on the University of Cincinnati Website.
06. 2018


"Optical Illusions of Volume: Augmented
Bubbles" is featured on the Data &#38;amp; Matter website.
05. 2018


"Optical Illusions of Volume:
Bubbles" is featured on suckerPUNCH.
05. 2018The “Data &#38;amp; Matter” exhibition opens in Italy and is featured in ”Venice 2018: Time, Space, Existence”
catalogue published by the GAA Foundation - European Cultural Center.
 04. 2018Master of Architecture student, Han Shen, receives the DAAP Urban Futures Award
upon graduation for his thesis entitled “A Retreat to Autonomy” advised by MM.


03. 2018MM presents, on behalf of Adam Schueler and Ming Tang, the project entitled
"Augmented Bubbles" at the 106th Annual Meeting of the Association of
Collegiate Schools of Architecture. Additional credits include: Peter Foster,
Anousha Alamgir, and Connor Tutthill. The 106th Annual Meeting: The Ethical
Imperative will be held March 15-17, 2018 in Denver, Colorado. The presentation
will take place in the "DESIGN RESEARCH IN THE STUDIO CONTEXT"
session at 4:30pm on Saturday. March 17th in Tower Court D. For more
information please visit: http://www.acsa-arch.org/programs-events/conferences/annual-meeting/106th-annual-meeting.
03. 2018MM with Han Shen will present the paper, written in collaboration with Ming
Tang, Adam Schueler, Matt Brubaker, and Han Shen, titled "Optical
Illusions of Volume: Simulation-based form finding and fabrication" at the
106th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
The paper will be presented in the "106 Open - Technology" paper
session on Friday, March 16th at 11:00am. For more information please visit: http://www.acsa-arch.org/programs-events/conferences/annual-meeting/106th-annual-meeting.
03. 2018Mara Marcu, Han Shen, and Ming Tang's project "MO.MO" featuring the
additional students Matt Brubaker, Kiana Memarandadgar, and Yasamin Enshaeian
has been accepted for publication, presentation, and exhibition at CAADRIA
2018.
03. 2018MM presents the paper titled "Building from Within/ Building from
Without" at the National Conference for the Beginning Design Student 2018
at UC DAAP in Room 3420 at 10:15am on March 3rd. For the full schedule please
visit http://daap.uc.edu/content/dam/daap/NewsEvents/NCBDS2018/NCBDSBooklet_web.pdf.
03. 2018MM presents and moderates the special paper session titled "Breaking
Ground: Ungendering Design" at the National Conference for the Beginning
Design Student 2018 at UC DAAP in room 3410 at 1:30pm on Friday March 2nd. The
panel features Zaneta Hong (UVa) http://www.arch.virginia.edu/faculty/node/2608and http://beta-field.org/,
Jennifer Bonner (GSD) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/person/jennifer-bonner/,
Heather Flood (Woodbury) https://woodbury.edu/faculty/heather-flood/and http://f-lab.squarespace.com/, Ghazal Abbasy
Asbagh (American University of Beirut) https://website.aub.edu.lb/nfo/new_faculty_profile/Pages/ProfilesFall2016-2017.aspx,
and Wendy Fok (Parsons) https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/faculty/Wendy-Fok/and http://we-designs.com/team/wendy-w-fok. For more
information please visit: http://daap.uc.edu/stories/ncbds-2018.html.
02. 2018Mara Marcu, along with Adam Schueler and Ming Tang will participate in the
‘DATA &#38;amp; MATTER’ Exhibition hosted by the GGA Foundation, European Cultural
Centre that will take place at the Palazzo Bembo as a collateral event of the
Architecture Venice Biennale 2018, from May 24th to November 25th 2018 in
Venice, Italy.
01. 2018MM's students, Adam Schueler, Peter Foster, Anousha Alamgir, and Connor
Tutthill, are featured on suckerPUNCHdaily.com with the project titled
"Optical Illusions of Volume: Bubbles". For more information please
visit: http://www.suckerpunchdaily.com/2018/01/30/opticalillusionsofvolumebubbles/#more-42218.
01. 2018The project titled "Optical Illusions of Volume: Bubbles" done in
collaboration with Adam Schueler and Ming Tang has been accepted for
publication at the 106th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools
of Architecture. Additional credits include: Peter Foster, Anousha Alamgir, and
Connor Tutthill. The 106th Annual Meeting: The Ethical Imperative will be held
March 15-17, 2018 in Denver, Colorado. For more information please visit: http://www.acsa-arch.org/programs-events/conferences/annual-meeting/106th-annual-meeting.
12. 2017MM's paper, written in collaboration with Ming Tang, Adam Schueler, Matt
Brubaker, and Han Shen, titled "Optical Illusions of Volume:
Simulation-based form finding and fabrication" has been accepted for
publication and presentation at the 106th Annual Meeting of the Association of
Collegiate Schools of Architecture. The paper will be presented in the
"106 Open - Technology" paper session. The 106th Annual Meeting: The
Ethical Imperative will be held March 15-17, 2018 in Denver, Colorado. For more
information please visit: http://www.acsa-arch.org/programs-events/conferences/annual-meeting/106th-annual-meeting.
11. 2017MM's special paper session titled "Breaking Ground: Ungendering
Design" has been accepted for publication and presentation at the National
Conference for the Beginning Design Student 2018. The panel features Zaneta
Hong (UVa) http://www.arch.virginia.edu/faculty/node/2608and http://beta-field.org/,
Jennifer Bonner (GSD) http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/person/jennifer-bonner/,
Heather Flood (Woodbury) https://woodbury.edu/faculty/heather-flood/and http://f-lab.squarespace.com/, Ghazal Abbasy
Asbagh (American University of Beirut) https://website.aub.edu.lb/nfo/new_faculty_profile/Pages/ProfilesFall2016-2017.aspx,
and Wendy Fok (Parsons) https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/faculty/Wendy-Fok/and http://we-designs.com/team/wendy-w-fok.
11. 2017MM's paper titled "Building from Within/ Building from Without" has
been accepted for publication and presentation at the National Conference for
the Beginning Design Student 2018.
10. 2017MM will present the project titled "Augmented Coral", done in
collaboration with Ming Tang, at Acadia 2017 hosted by the MIT Media Lab on
Thursday, November 2nd. For more information please visit http://2017.acadia.org/schedule.html.
10. 2017MM is elected on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of
Architectural Computing (IJAC http://acadia.org/features/R6J6JC).
For more information about the journal, please visit: http://www.architecturalcomputing.org/ .
08. 2017MM is nominated for a position on the International Journal of Architectural
Computing (IJAC) Board of Directors. To vote, please visit: http://acadia.org/elections/X99P33.
07. 2017The project titled "Augmented Coral" done in collaboration with Ming
Tang, has been accepted for publication and exhibition at the ACADIA 2017
Conference.
05. 2017Optical Illusions of Volume is on display at the Reed Gallery in Cincinnati.
This exhibition celebrates projects awarded with the Director's Choice Award at
the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnatihttps://daap.uc.edu/galleries/reed_gallery.html. 
04. 2017Mara Marcu's students receive the Director's Choice Award for the research done
in ARCH 4002+8001/Optical Illusions of Volume at UC SAID. This body of work is
sponsored by the Third Century Foundation Research Grant.
04. 2017Mara Marcu received the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award at the University of
Cincinnati http://daap.uc.edu/faculty/2017-faculty-awards.html.
02. 2017KUKA KR-20 arrives at UC SAID "http://ming3d.com/robotic/.
01. 2017MM serves as the Secretary of ACADIA. http://acadia.org/content/organization.
11. 2016MM serves on the ACADIA Board of Directors. http://acadia.org/features/YTYY2P.
08. 2016MM is nominated for a position on the ACADIA Board of Directors. To vote,
please visit: http://acadia.org/elections/4GPZ96.
08. 2016MM with Ming Tang exhibits a set of drawings featuring a sequence of design
transformations exploring the concept of mutation and resolution in
architecture at the Reed Gallery in Cincinnati.
08. 2016Sam Kissing's project completed in the Zoomable World/Misbehaved Tectonics
sequence at UC SAID led by Mara Marcu is featured on http://www.suckerpunchdaily.com/2016/08/25/zoomable-world-misbehaved-tectonics/#more-40400
08. 2016Mara Marcu, in collaboration with Ming Tang, will exhibit on behalf of the
University of Cincinnati SAID at SOFA Chicago in November 2016. For more
information please visit http://www.sofaexpo.com/.
07. 2016MM is an Invited Visiting Assistant Professor at the American University of
Sharjah in Fall 2016.
05. 2016Mara Marcu with Christoph Klemmt and Ming Tang receive the University of
Cincinnati Provost Technology Innovation Grant for the "Architectural
Robotic Lab" at UC SAID.
04. 2016Jillian Blakey’s project submitted to the 2016 Skyscraper Competition done
during the Pseudo Vertical 1 Capstone Studio taught by Mara Marcu at the
University of Cincinnati was selected by the editorial board to be published in
the forthcoming book EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS 3. This book will include the best 150
projects submitted to the skyscraper competition in 2014, 2015, and 2016. EVOLO
SKYSCRAPERS 3 is a limited edition publication and only 500 copies will be
available worldwide. To order, please visit: http://bit.ly/1SdzVv9.
04. 2016Mara Marcu is part of the Wessex Institute of Technology Scientific Committee
and a peer reviewer for the 2016 Design and Nature Conference to be hosted this
fall in New Forest, United Kingdom. For details, please visit http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2016/design-and-nature-2016?utm_source=wit&#38;amp;utm_medium=email&#38;amp;utm_campaign=dn16rem3&#38;amp;uid=1751867.
03. 2016Mara Marcu and Ming Tang present "The Strange Loop" at the 2016 ACSA
Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA. 
02. 2016Mara Marcu and Ming Tang receive the AHSS Third Century Faculty Research Grant
for "Curating Artifacts".
01. 2016Mara Marcu and Ming Tang publish "Physics Simulation and Form Seeking in
Architectural Design Education" in the International Journal of
Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, Vol. 4 No. 4 http://www.iasdm.org/journals/index.php/ijaec/issue/view/17.
11. 2015Computational Ecologies: Inside the 2015 ACADIA Conference in Cincinnati. To
find out more visit the Architect's Newspaper at http://blog.archpaper.com/2015/11/computational-ecologies-inside-2015-acadia-conference-cincinnati/#.VubgYOYsAWs.
09. 2015Mara Marcu's will moderate SESSION 07: ROBOTICS / RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENTS II at
ACADIA 2015 on Thursday, October 22nd at 3:30pm at 21c Museum Hotel.
07. 2015Mara Marcu's project titled "Transmuted Tectonics" done in
collaboration with Ming Tang, has been accepted for publication and exhibition
at the ACADIA 2015 Conference.
07. 2015Mara Marcu's project titled "The Strange Wall" done in collaboration
with Ming Tang, has been accepted for publication and exhibition at the ACADIA
2015 Conference.
06. 2015Mara Marcu's paper on data mapping and ornament, written in collaboration with
Ming Tang, has been accepted for publication and presentation at the ACADIA
2015 Conference.
03. 2015Mara Marcu is part of the team hosting this year's ACADIA 2015 Conference in
Cincinnati, OH. For more information please visit http://2015.acadia.org/.
02. 2015Mara Marcu presents and moderates at the National Conference for the Beginning
Design Student 2015. "Zoomable World/Misbehaved Tectonics" will be
presented on Saturday, February 28 at the University of Houston Gerald D. Hines
College of Architecture in the main auditorium at 11am. http://www.beginningdesign2015.org/
12. 2014Mara Marcu is invited for final reviews at the Ohio State University Knowlton
School of Architecture with Kristy Balliet.
11. 2014Mara Marcu's exhibits with the University of Cincinnati at SOFA Chicago 2015 The
Strange Wall. http://www.sofaexpo.com/chicago/content/2013/connect
06. 2014Mara Marcu's paper titled 'DENDRITIC MALFORMATION: A case study on Adaptable
Tectonic Systems' will be presented at the international conference of science
and engineering Design and Nature organized by the the Wessex Institute [United
Kingdom] in Opatjia - Croatia on Friday 11th July 2014, during the Morning
session.
05. 2014Mara Marcu is invited for final reviews at the University of Virginia School of
Architecture with Karen van Lengen, Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh and Robin Dripps on
May 1 -3rd, 2014.
05. 2014“Sambo’ _[Reconfigured” is exhibited at 3CDC in Over The Rhine, Cincinnati.
04. 2014MM presents “Sambo’ _[Reconfigured” at ACSA 2014 Globalizing Architecture:
Flows and Disruptions, on Saturday April 13 2014 in Miami, Florida. For more
information please visit: http://acsa-arch.org/programs-events/conferences/annual-meeting/102nd-annual-meeting
11. 2013Mara Marcu is invited for final reviews at Georgia Tech College of Architecture
on December 4th, 2013 with Jennifer Bonner.
10. 2013MM's research studio titled "Inter-Dependent Modulation" taught at
UVa is published in "Catalyst: Conditions" edited by Ghazal
Abbasy-Asbagh and published by ACTAR. To order please visit: http://www.amazon.com/Catalyst-Conditions-Ghazal-Abbasy-Asbagh/dp/1940291003/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;amp;qid=1382799759&#38;amp;sr=8-1&#38;amp;keywords=catalyst+conditions
10. 2013MM presents a research poster on “Sambo’ _[Reconfigured” at ACADIA 2013
Adaptive Architecture Conference, on Saturday October 26 2013 at the University
of Waterloo, School of Architecture in Cambridge, Ontario. For more information
please visit: http://2013.acadia.org/
07. 2013MM is invited guest critic at Dynamic Fields Workshop hosted by PARAMETRICA in
Bucharest Romania. For more information please visit: http://www.dynamicfields.ro
06. 2013 MM publishes in LUNCH 8 I Richmond, VA: Carter Printing I “Sambo’
_[Reconfigured” 
05. 2013MM is an invited critic for 2nd Year Undergrad Final Reviews at Virginia Tech
University.
05. 2013MM is appointed as Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati DAAP
04. 2013 MM's work is published in SIZE MATTERS I Barcelona: Actar I “Sambo’
_[Reconfigured”, StrandCITYBeest 
04. 2013MM is an invited critic for Thesis Final Reviews at University of Houston
College of Architecture.
04. 2013MM is an invited critic for Thesis Final Reviews at University of Cincinnati
DAAP.
02. 2013 - 08. 2013MM exhibits “Sambo’ _[Reconfigured” at UVA Fine Arts Library I Charlottesville,
Virginia. Full Scale Installation for “Sambo’ _[Reconfigured”.
02. 2013 MM lectures at the University of Cincinnati, DAAP on “Sambo’ ”.
01. 2013Sambo Reconfigured is in the news at Eloise: http://shopeloise.com/whats-new/vintage-barbie-mara-marcu-art-installation
12. 2012MM is invited for final reviews at the University of Cincinnati School of
Architecture and Interior Design.
12. 2012MM exhibits "Sambo Reconfigured" at Eloise on West Main http://shopeloise.com/.
11. 2012MM gives a gallery talk on "Sambo Reconfigured" at the UVa A-School
at the East Gallery on November 16th.
09. 2012MM's research seminar "Sambo Reconfigured" opening exhibit is
scheduled for September 17th at the UVa A-School at the East Gallery Exhibit.
08. 2012MM's research option studio titled "InterDependent Modulation: Henri
Coanda International Airport Terminal 2" is open for enrollment for Fall
2012 at UVa A-School. This is a vertical comprehensive studio for third- and
fourth-year undergraduates - introducing for the first time in a studio
environment at the A-school - the parametric software Catia, as a new cognitive
environment.
11. 2011MM's research seminar titled "Sambo Reconfigured" is open for
enrollment for Spring 2012 at UVa A-School. This is a full scale fabrication
seminar introducing for the first time at the school the parametric software
Catia as a new cognitive environment.
10. 2011Mara Marcu speaks about "Design Process and Production" at UVa School
of Architecture in Room 153 on November 2nd at 2:15pm.
04. 2011Mara Marcu received the Virginia Teaching Fellowship at the University of
Virginia for the academic period 2011 - 1013 http://www.arch.virginia.edu/.

03. 2011Mara Marcu speaks about "Parametricism" at the University of Houston,
Hines College of Architecture Pecha Kucha.
03. 2011Mara Marcu's work is exhibited at "Sketch.", an exhibition opening
for Tadao Ando's lecture held at Universidad de Monterrey, in association with
New York-based curators d3, Mexico http://www.d3space.org/sketch/.
03. 2011University of Virginia, School of Architecture: MM is an invited guest critic
for the 2nd year design studio midterm review.
03. 2011Lecture: "SAMBÓ: A Collection of Curiosities" by MM at the University
of Virginia, School of Architecture, Campbell Hall, Room 153 http://www.arch.virginia.edu/event/2272. 
02. 2011Lecture: "The Architecture of Glenn Murcutt" by MM at the University
of Houston, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture Theater.
12. 2010Mara Marcu's work is exhibited at "13.3%...", Woodbury University
Project Space on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California ttp://wuho.org/13point3.
12. 2010Mara Marcu is part of DesignLAB Houston, an University of Houston, Hines
College of Architecture work force providing architectural and urban design
services to various clients. MM is currently part of the University of Houston
Downtown Base Camp http://www.arch.uh.edu/special/designlab/index.php.
12. 2010University of Houston: MM is invited as a Guest Critic for the Final Reviews
for the, 5th and 3rd Year Undergraduate Studios, as well as for the Level 2
Graduate Studios at the Hines College of Architecture.
11. 2010Mara Marcu is part of the exhibition "13.3% is an exasperated reply to
those who say, 'there are no women making architecture'" scheduled to open
December 2010 at Woodbury University Project Space on Hollywood Boulevard in
Los Angeles, California. 
10. 2010University of Houston: MM is invited as a Guest Critic for 5th and 3rd Year
Undergraduate Studio Reviews at the Hines College of Architecture.
2010 - 2011Mara Marcu appointed to teach at the University of Houston, Gerald D. Hines
College of Architecture. For more information please visit the school's
website: http://www.arch.uh.edu/.
07. 2010MM is selected to participate in the Glenn Murcutt Master Class in
Sydney Australia with the Pritzker Prize winner, Mr. Glenn Murcutt. Please
visit the Work section of the website. For more information: http://www.ozetecture.org/oze_NEW_index.html.
07. 2010MM receives the Glenn Murcutt Master Class Scholarship.
05. 2010University of Houston: MM is an invited Guest Critic for a Level II Graduate
Studio at the Hines College of Architecture. For more information please visit
the school's website: http://www.arch.uh.edu/.
07. 2009 MM becomes a LEED Accredited Professional.
06. 2009Harvard University GSD: MM's exhibits Reticulated Form at A View on
Harvard GSD Exhibit.
05. 2009MM's Soft Space Agile Involutions is published in "A View on
Harvard GSD" Volume 1, London: Tank Form Ltd, p. 394-395.
11. 2008MM exhibits several graphite isle drawings as part of the Rome Seminar
Exhibit at Harvard GSD.
05. 2008 
Ghost 7 with Brian MacKay-Lyons is published in "Ghost: Building an
Architectural Vision", Princeton Architectural Press, 1 edition, p.143 -
164.
02/04. 2007Ion Mincu University of Architecture: MM is an invited Visiting Critic for a
Third Year Design Studio in Bucharest Romania. For more information please
visit the school's website: http://www.uauim.ro/en/.
11. 2005 "Spirits in the Material World" featuring Ghost 7 with Brian
MacKay-Lyons is published in Metropolis, p.74.
09. 2005MM's Best in Show awarded Tarkett Factory Inc. is exhibited at the
University of Houston Hines College of Architecture. 
05. 2005MM is awarded the highest graduation award at the University of Houston Hines
College of Architecture. The Best in Show Design Award grants the
participation to Ghost Laboratory in Nova Scotia, Canada with architect Brian
McKay-Lyons.
05. 2005MM is awarded the Honor Award for Factory Design at the University of
Houston Hines College of Architecture for the Tarkett Inc. Factory as
part of the thesis competition.
05. 2005Exhibit opening: Louis Kahn - My Architect / MM's Memorial to the
Romanian Revolution is exhibited at the Saintes Art Institute in France.
04. 2005Centre d'Etude d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme, Saintes - France/ MM exhibits Memorial
to the Romanian Revolution of 1989.


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		<description>10.&#38;nbsp;2020&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 
Marcu, Mara; Tang, Ming; Schueler, Adam. “BUBBLEgum”. Data, Matter, Design: Strategies in Computational Design, edited by Marcella del Signore, Nancy Diniz, and Frank Melendez. Taylor &#38;amp; Francis/Routledge. October. Print.
10. 2019&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 
Christenson, Mike; Gerber, David J.; Jabi, Wassim; Marcu, Mara; Wit, Andrew John, ed. Architectural Science Review Special Issue: Means, Methods, Machines and Making in Architecture. Vol. 6, No. 5, Taylor Francis/Routledge. October. Print. 
12. 2018 
                    Marcu, Mara, ed. ECHOS. Barcelona: Actar. December. Print. 

ISBN 9781948765046. Library of Congress Publication Data: 2018942687
12. 2018&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 
Marcu, Mara. “Echos”, “Building from Within/Building from Without”, “Zoomable World/Misbehaved Tectonics II”, “Optical Illusions of Volume”, “The Strange Wall”, “PseudoVertical!”, “SOM Interiors” (an interview with Jaime Velez), in ECHOS, edited by Mara Marcu. Barcelona: Actar. July. p. 6-21, 22, 90, 172, 238, 308, 402. Print.
12. 2018&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 
Clayton, Mark; Daas, Mahesh; Gerber, David J.; Jabi, Wassim; Marcu, Mara; Parlac, Vera; Vasey, Lauren; Wit, Andrew John, ed. The International Journal of Architectural Computing: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Architecture: Autonomy, Agency and Indeterminacy. Vol. 16, Issue 4. Sage Publishers. December. Print.
05. 2018&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 
Marcu, Mara; Tang, Ming. “Optical Illusions of Volume: Simulation-based form finding and fabrication”, ACSA 2018 The Ethical Imperative Paper Proceedings. ACSA Press. May. Print. 
05. 2018&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 
Marcu, Mara; Tang Ming. “Augmented Bubbles”, ACSA 2018 The Ethical Imperative Project Proceedings. ACSA Press. May. p. 61-62. Print. 
03. 2018&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 
Marcu, Mara. “Breaking Ground: Ungendering Design”, The 2018 National Conference on the Beginning Design Student Proceedings. Cincinnati, OH: NCBDS Press. Print.
03. 2018&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 
Marcu, Mara. “Building From Within/Building From Without”, The 2018 National Conference on the Beginning Design Student Proceedings. Cincinnati, OH: NCBDS Press. Print. 
02. 2018&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; 
Marcu, Mara; Shen, Han; Tang, Ming. “MO.MO.”, 2018 CAADRIA Project Proceedings. Beijing, China. Deferred Acceptance due to scheduling conflicts with the Venice Biennale Data &#38;amp; Matter Exhibition.
10. 2017
Tang, Ming; Marcu, Mara. "Augmented Coral", Acadia 2017 Disciplines &#38;amp; Disruption: Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture. Print. To order please visit: https://www.amazon.com/Acadia-2017-Disciplines-Disruption-Architecture/dp/0692965068

11. 2016
Jillian Blakey. “Plaques And Tangles“ (part of “PseudoVertical!”). eVolo Skyscrapers 3 (Limited Edition Book). Ed. Carlo Aiello. USA: eVolo. November 2016. http://amzn.to/2hFctX5

04. 2016
Marcu, Mara/ Tang, Ming. (In Press). The Strange Loop. Shaping New Knowledges: The 104th Annual Meeting 2016 Project Proceedings. p. 57-58.

01. 2016
Tang, Ming/ Marcu, Mara. “Physics Simulation and Form Seeking in Architectural Design Education”, International Journal of Architecture, Engineering and Construction,  4 (4). http://www.iasdm.org/journals/index.php/ijaec/issue/current. February. Print.

10. 2015
Tang, Ming/ Marcu, Mara. (In Press). Data Mapping and Ornament. The 2015 ACADIA Computational Ecologies, Design in the Anthropocene Paper Proceedings, p. 111--121.

10. 2015
Marcu, Mara/ Tang, Ming. (In Press). The Strange Wall. The 2015 ACADIA Computational Ecologies, Design in the Anthropocene Project Proceedings, p. 190--193.

10. 2015
Tang, Ming/ Marcu, Mara. (In Press). Transmutated Tectonics. The 2015 ACADIA Computational Ecologies, Design in the Anthropocene Project Proceedings, p. 164--167.

02. 2015
National Conference for the Beginning Design Student 31 Proceedings. Houston, TX. Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture. “Zoomable World/Misbehaved Tectonics’”.  p. 361-368.

02. 2015
International Journal of Design &#38;amp; Nature and Ecodynamics. Southampton, UK. WIT Press. “Dendritic Malformation. A Case Study on Adaptable Tectonic Systems’”. Volume 10 (2015). Issue 1. p. 40-49. To purchase the paper please visit: http://www.witpress.com/elibrary/dne-volumes/10/1/921

04. 2014
ACSA 2014 Globalizing Architecture Project Proceedings. Washington, DC. ACSA Press. “Sambo’ _[Reconfigured”, p.99-100.

11. 2013
CATALYST: Conditions. Barcelona: Actar. “InterDependent Modulation”, p.129-136.To pre-order, please visit: http://www.amazon.com/Catalyst-Conditions-Ghazal-Abbasy-Asbagh/dp/1940291003 .

10. 2013 
ACADIA 2013 Adaptive Architecture Proceedings. Ontario, CA: Riverside Architectural Press. “Sambo’ _[Reconfigured”, p. 423-424. To order please visit: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Acadia-2013-Philip-Beesley/9781926724225

10 . 2013 
LUNCH 8. Richmond, VA: Carter Printing. “Sambo’ _[Reconfigured”, p.86-91. To order please visit: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0989445305/ref=cm_sw_su_dp.

10 . 2012 
PAPER MATTERS. Charlottesville, VA. Paper Matters Press. “Sambo’ _[Reconfigured”, p.2-4.

10 . 2012
PAPER MATTERS. Charlottesville, VA. Paper Matters Press. "StrandCITYBeest", p 27-29.

2009 
A View on Harvard GSD – Volume 1. London: Tank Form Ltd. Soft Space Agile Involutions, p. 394-395 . To order please visit: http://www.amazon.com/View-Harvard-GSD-Mohsen-Mostafavi/dp/0955573270/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#38;amp;ie=UTF8&#38;amp;qid=1382800656&#38;amp;sr=1-1&#38;amp;keywords=a+view+on+harvard+gsd.

January 2009 
“Shobac Cottages and Studio”. Architectural Record.  Ghost 7, p. 124-127 - directed by Brian MacKay-Lyons.

May 2008 
Ghost: Building an Architectural Vision. Princeton Architectural Press, 1st edition. Ghost 7, p.143 - 164 - directed by Brian MacKay-Lyons.

November 2005 
“Spirits in the Material World”. Metropolis. Ghost 7, p.74 - directed by Brian MacKay-Lyons.
 

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		<title>echos</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2018 11:42:39 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>MMXIVechos


Descriptive Form
Title: ECHOSEditor: Mara Marcu
Size: 6.5in x 8.25inPages: 406Illustrations: ColorCover: HardcoverPublished by: Actar PublishersISBN: 9781948765046Library of CongressPublication Data: 2018942687Languages: English

Order:&#38;nbsp;

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Text: &#38;nbsp;Echos; Mara Marcu

Image: Echos; ed. Mara Marcu


July 2018


SAID In Print.

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About ECHOS:
 The book of student and faculty work, co-op stories, and snapshots from several
events places the reader in the midst of Peter Eisenman’s famous Grand Staircase, the living room of the Aronoff Center for Design and Art. Various constellations
chart our diverse academic and social interactions—visible in the book’s five main themes: anxiety, praxis, trope, chreod, and utopia. Discussed by lead
figures in the discipline—Peter Zellner, Victoria Meyers, Aaron Betsky, Edward Mitchell, Peter Waldman, Nader Tehrani, Shashi Caan, Jaime Velez, and Craig
Dykers—the themes expand on the issues of theoretical anxiety, architectural style, practice, typology, the less-than-ideal, the peculiar, and the sublime.


Anxiety, introduced by Peter Zellner, collects and
synthesizes multiple contradicting theories that entertain with equanimity various solutions to design problems. Praxis, introduced by Victoria Meyers, looks at outcomes—physical, prototypical, digital or analog, multi-dimensional and multi-media, spoken, written or unwritten—as well
as working methodologies that shape design thinking. Trope, introduced by Aaron Betsky, maps out trends,
emergent ideologies, and design expressions. Chreod, introduced by Edward Mitchell, documents and interprets field conditions, rule-based processes, issues of
transgressions, non-smooth and nomadic entities that cut across arbolic-like divisions. Utopia, introduced by Peter Waldman, while suspending various otherwise necessary constraints, allows for an euphoric and unapologetically optimistic view of the world, with the goal of envisioning
daring possibilities otherwise unimaginable. Utopia, therefore, prefigures all other themes and is the ambition
and imaginary locus of the multiple programs and opportunities at the School of Architecture and Interior
Design at the University of Cincinnati.


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	In general, the term echos means sound or voice. In music the concept refers to a chant sang in dialogue by a choir. This melodic structure has specific hierarchy, notes, an intonations. Although not as popular, echos has also become an increasingly accepted plural form of the noun echo. The spelling echoes is however more commonly found. 


The publication ECHOS synthesizes the work done at the University of Cincinnati, School of Architecture an Interior Design, marked by moments of compression and release in our curriculum, which revolves around traditional semester-long sessions and co-op (curriculum-based paid internship) semesters. 


Though intentionally dissonant
at times, our program reinforces the relentless belief that the profession and academia do not need to build on one another in redundancy to reinforce each other. Professional intership semesters weave with a year round schedule of highly theoretical,
experimental, and consequently research based courses.


Indexing student and faculty work, co-op stories, and snapshots from several events, the book places the reader in
the midst of Peter Eisenman’s famous Grand Staircase, the living room of the Aronoff Center for Design and Art, where the many student and faculty voices form a multilayered
chorus of one of the most vibrant and diverse design schools in North America. Part of the College of Design,
Architecture, Art, and Planning, the program benefits from its affiliations with industrial design, fashion design, communication design, art, landscape architecture, and
urbanism. The opportunistic dialogue that inevitably influences the studio environment happens irrespective of
disciplinary boundaries. This relaxes what might become an otherwise dogmatic curricular agenda, breeds new taxonomies and asks questions such as Amanda Lo’s
thesis – “Do buildings dream of swallowed futures?”. In this way we elicit a ludic, nevertheless investigative
attitude towards architecture and education.


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echos

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all roads lead to SAID


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Student Editors: 

Kyle Winston, Alan Alaniz, Chas Wiederhold, Christina Tefend, Jamie Kruer, John Meyer, Anjana Sivakumar, Erin Klein, Daham Marapane, Michael Sullivan, Brady Ginn, Seher Hashmi, Gael Perichon, Farshad Khalighinejad, Kristin Moreno, and Garcia Ghislaine


Editorial Board:&#38;nbsp;
Edward Mitchell, William Williams, Michael McInturf, Udo Greinacher, Elizabeth Riorden, Edson Cabalfin


Graphic Design:

 
Mara Marcu with Student Editors


Copy Editor:

 
Gabriela Sarhos


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		<title>Data &#38; Matter Exhibition </title>
				
		<link>https://maramarcu.com/Data-Matter-Exhibition</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2018 23:52:14 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>MMXIII</dc:creator>

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		<description>MMVIIDATA &#38;amp; MATTER
	EXHIBITION


GAA Foundation&#38;nbsp; EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE“Time - Space - Existence”during the2018 Venice Architecture Biennale
May 26 - November 25, 2018Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy


Exhibition curated by:
Marcella Del Signore,

Associate Professor, New York Institute of Technology, NY, USA
Nancy Diniz, 
Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA
Frank Melendez,

 Assistant Professor, City College of New York, CUNY, NY, USA
	
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Text:&#38;nbsp; Exhibition CuratorsImages: Mara Marcu


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Modes of perceiving, experiencing and inhabiting cities are radically changing along with a radical transformation of the tools that we use to design. Cities, buildings, bodies are complex and systemic organisms requiring approaches that engage new multi-scalar strategies to connect the physical layer with the system of networked ecologies. Over the past two decades we have witnessed a series of projects with an interest in shaping architectural form coining terms such as ‘datascapes’ (1), and more recently, ‘atmospheric thinking’ (2). 
 

 In these projects computational technologies inform new relationships between information and matter, code and space to redefine new urban ecosystems where light, temperature, humidity, and biometric data are pre-conditions for spatial form. 


This exhibition presents a group of projects by leading international designers using emerging and novel forms of reading and producing spatial conditions that connect/visualize data, responsive systems, and sensing/actuation technologies, through micro and macro scales.

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	The exhibition takes the opportunity to exhibit a range of projects, side by side, that transform data as an abstraction into spatial and experiential configurations. It aims at triggering discussion and debate on how the use of data in design methodologies and theoretical discourses have evolved in the last two decades and why processes of data measurement, quantification, simulation, ubiquitous technologies and algorithmic control, and their integration into methods of making architectural form and spatial experiences, are becoming vital in academic and industry practices.


(1) Mass, W. Van Rijs, J. De Vries N. http://www.mvrdv.nl/en/about/Design_Philosophy
(2) ‘Thermodynamic Interactions’ An Architectural Exploration into Physiological, Material, Territorial Atmospheres’ Ed Garcia-German, J. Actar Publishers 2017www.dataandmatter.wordpress.com

www.europeanculturalcentre.eu


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Project Credits: BUBBLEgum; Adam Schueler, Ming Tang, Mara Marcu

Physical Installation:&#38;nbsp; Bubbles; Adam Schueler, Peter Foster, Anousha Alamgir, Connor Tuthill


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		<title>BUBBLEgum</title>
				
		<link>https://maramarcu.com/BUBBLEgum</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2018 11:42:35 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>MMXIII</dc:creator>

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		<description>MMVII
BUBBLE
gum&#38;nbsp;


How do the materials you and your colleagues selected help tell this story?


The project presented in Venice uses virtual materials. The physical 
installation has been presented in various instances: as a triangulated 
artifact using a virtual sheet material, reinterpreted with a marching 
cube algorithm and texture mapped with a variety of patterns, which 
allude to the initial inspiration drawn from two seemingly different yet
 intertwined sources: Islamic geometries and soap bubbles.


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Text: &#38;nbsp; Excerpt from an interview with Michele Ralston for University of Cincinnati; full access here.&#38;nbsp;


Image: BUBBLEgum;&#38;nbsp;Ming Tang, Mara Marcu, Adam Schueler


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Explain how your exhibit&#38;nbsp; examines conflicting attitudes.


Given the ubiquitous proliferation of digital techniques, 
“Optical Illusions of Volume” prompts an exploration of the many 
misalignments inherent in the design and manufacturing process. Through 
computation and augmented reality, a physical artifact is brought to 
life in Venice at Palazzo Bembo.


For this event, we have also incorporated augmented 
reality through the use of a mobile device. Visitors can visualize, 
interact, change textures, modify placement in space and walk through a 
virtual representation of our physical installation exhibited at the 
University of Cincinnati. While in reality certain decisions are frozen 
and limited to the selected material, spatial or budgetary constraints, 
in an augmented reality environment these considerations can be left 
open-ended.


September 2018


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What advice do you have for current and future architecture students?


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To embrace collaboration and exploit the accidental.


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		<title>SAMBÓ, Reconfigured</title>
				
		<link>https://maramarcu.com/SAMBO-Reconfigured</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2018 11:42:38 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>MMXIII</dc:creator>

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MMXII


Eliadean Philosophy and Jeffersonian References


SAMBÓ, RECONFIGURED


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Sambó

 Reconfigured - detail

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Sambó

 Reconfigured - overall


Eliade’s Secret Room


The term Sambó was first used by the Romanian scholar Mircea Eliade as an abbreviation for Shamballa. The term is a metaphor for what he calls the secret room, which refers to a 

lost or denied paradise

.

In the Romanian&#38;nbsp;

vernacular,

 the dining room is replaced by what is called the clean room. This is generally locked and only used to receive guests. Children, who are often denied access due to maintenance considerations, tend to manifest an avid curiosity towards what lies beyond the locked door.&#38;nbsp;


The Jeffersonian Sambó


Commissioned as part of The University of Virginia Teaching Fellowship, the project 
speculates on the typology of the Jeffersonian alcove apertures, truncated pyramid skylights (thirteen oculi are formed by the layered condition of the wall), and octagonal typologies (each unit being circumscribed in an octagonal wireframe which defines the aggregation logic) embedded in a porous wall, as the basis for the mythically charged, paradoxical Jeffersonian Sambó.

 
August 2011 - May 2013
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UVa East Gallery Wall, 2012


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Sponsored by the University of Virginia A School


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Photography: Scott Smith Photography


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Bed, Porch, Window


	︎
“Once I went there with several pieces of
candy in my pocket. Without realizing it I put one in my mouth. [..]&#38;nbsp;
Impossible!
It had no flavor. [..]
My mouth was dry. I couldn’t
move my tongue. 
I couldn't do anything in Sambó. 
I wasn't hungry, I wasn't thirsty, I wasn't sleepy. 
I lived, purely and
simply, in paradise.”

Mircea Eliade
The Forbidden Forrest
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Serpentine Bench


"Of
course, I realized then that they knew about my crime. They knew that I had
entered Sambó with candy in my pocket and had even tried to eat a piece. [..] The rest of my family didn't know about Sambó. They
hadn't turned their heads in time to see the direction indicated by the man
with the mustache... I waited impatiently to be allowed to get out of bed.
On the third day as we were returning from the
beach I managed to slip away from their watchful eyes and ran to the second
floor. But I couldn't get in. Sambó was locked. I was crushed. I stayed there
for a long while, trying the latch from time to time. In vain. Sambó remained locked.
I prayed in my mind as I had been taught to pray. I recited all the prayers I
knew, to God, to the Holy Mother, to Jesus Christ, and to my Guardian Angel,
but Sambó remained locked. I prayed in my mind to the
man with the mustache. I prayed to everyone at his table, those powerful men
who knew unintelligible words, who were initiated into mysteries and then
trembling I put my hand on the latch. In vain. The door still didn't open. I
had been forbidden to enter. Sambó had become inaccessible to me.“


Mircea Eliade
The Forbidden Forrest


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Oculi


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	<item>
		<title>The Strange Wall</title>
				
		<link>https://maramarcu.com/The-Strange-Wall</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2018 15:45:13 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>MMXIII</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://maramarcu.com/The-Strange-Wall</guid>

		<description>
	&#60;img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b1adad00db2ca5be3201fba06ea449646ced96f53fc14e9f9f25fca6a84c5008/Ming_s-Camera-330.JPG" data-mid="162203268" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b1adad00db2ca5be3201fba06ea449646ced96f53fc14e9f9f25fca6a84c5008/Ming_s-Camera-330.JPG" /&#62;


Text:&#38;nbsp; Mara Marcu

Image: The Strange Wall; detail


October 2015


MMXII:&#38;nbsp;The Strange Wall
CNC fabrication.


About:
 The Strange Wall presents research conducted in the customization of CNC tool paths to generate complex surface texture. The machining of the artifact becomes apparent in the unique surface tessellation. The inherent double reading of
ornament—as having both function and affect—anticipates larger forms of interaction between the inhabited and the uninhabitable in the Anthropocene.


Descriptive Form


Title: The Strange WallDesigner: Mara MarcuSize: 7 ft x 3 ft x 10 ftMachine: 5 axis CNC routerTechnique: 

flip-milled, customized toolpathMaterial: 16 lbs. 6” thick high density polyurethaneBinder: Gorilla Glue, clampedFinish: gold metallic latex spray paintExhibited at: SOFA 2014 Chicago, ACADIA 2015 Cincinnati


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In music, the strange&#38;nbsp;loop, refers to the phenomenon in which a pattern set by a composer, is then
broken only to return whole again, as in Bach’s canons. As Hofstadter remarks,
implicit to the concept of the strange loop is the concept of infinity, since
“what else is a loop but a way of representing an endless process in a finite
way?” As seen in Escher’s ‘Metamorphosis’, infinity plays a large role. Copies
of one single theme often fit into each other, forming visual analogues to the
cannons of Bach. Through a process of incremental subdivision modelling, a
series of mutated taxonomies were developed. Studying each unit lead to a
‘paste special’ methodology, defining tectonic malformations of such
taxonomies, the outcome becoming, an abstracted strange&#38;nbsp;loop of tectonic possibilities.
 

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Designed with Dassault’s CATIA design development environment, this
installation pushes a 3-axis router to its limits with a unique undercut and
variable modules.&#38;nbsp;


A total of 66 cells with variable input points were
instantiated within an armature using a knowledge pattern that automated the
insertion of each UDF (user-defined-feature). Each UDF morphed function of the
knowledge pattern that linked the coordinates for the insertion of the cell to
inner parameters controlling the resolution of the base unit. 

 
Eight sheets of
high-density foam were flip-milled and joined with a two-part epoxy adhesive to
create the final product. Following assemblage, the installation was coated
with thin layers of latex primer and gold metallic paint. The installation was
CNC routed using a combination of 16 and 20 lbs. density polyurethane.


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CNC drawing
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geometry


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The Strange Wall, aggregation


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		<title>A Familiar Scene</title>
				
		<link>https://maramarcu.com/A-Familiar-Scene</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2018 11:42:36 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>MMXIII</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://maramarcu.com/A-Familiar-Scene</guid>

		<description>
	A FAMILIAR SCENE


The project documents and proposes urban
alternatives for post-communist architecture. Specifically, it argues that the
massive construction that characterized the “golden age” of Communism constitutes
a rich historical and creative departure point for contemporary design.


Situated at the juncture between the factual, the ludic, and the nostalgic—the
project reinvents representational methods and design attitudes for the
architecture of the former Eastern European Block.


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Context


In Romania conflicting
stylistic influences are complicated by the ongoing encounters between high
architecture and everyday use, between ongoing global, economic development and
local spatial practices. The proliferation and translation of styles, the
restrictions of government regulated urbanism, and the current ubiquity of capital
are the framework for the play of an urban life of improvisation and invention.
Modelled after the French capital whose inventive architecture had a large influence
in the East, Bucharest—once called “Little Paris”—later became the epicenter of
the Communist Architectural Regime. As such, unexpected associations are
ubiquitous in the city.


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Mara Marcu — Rooms with A View


Remnants of the country’s once rural
society are not fully urbanized; the vegetable garden and the personal pig farm
find themselves in industrialized mass housing projects. This programmatic
anomaly has made possible a new typology–the block of flats with a semi-shared
vegetable garden. Likewise, the parking lots of courtyard apartment complexes,
given the scarcity of the automobile, are turned to new uses as arenas for
soccer, handball, and ice hockey. The courtyard might be flooded in winter, or
the snow harvested to turn it into ice. A rope might be strung across to make a
tennis court. Through human resourcefulness, the former concrete parking lot turned playground successfully replaced other
formal, yet un-programmed recreational areas. This level of invention was a
feature of the Romanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2018. Similarly,
secular and religious remnants of the former village are still present in the
current urban fabric. In the spirit of bricolage (see “Everyday Urbanism” by
Margaret Crawford), projects like the Village Museum are carefully woven in the
city’s fabric. 


Through misuse and
appropriation, the city has found its own unruly, surreptitious, and unyielding
urbanity. Its sudden beauty takes you by surprise. Highly imperfect, far from
ideal, not idyllic, never particularly romantic, yet completely bewildering,
the architecture of Romania is perpetually in search for something else. As
such, this land constitutes the ideal playground for the work of the architect.
This body of work does not focus on documentation alone, but also on
articulating a contemporary architecture of newfound dimensions, strategies,
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