Marcelo López-Dinardi is an Assistant Professor of architecture at Texas A&M University. He is interested in the scales of design, the role of the public and commons, and in architecture as an expanded media. He is the editor of Architecture from Public to Commons (Routledge, 2023), Degrowth (ARQ, 2022), and is working on the research and exhibition project Cemented Dreams: Material and Ecological Stories in Puerto Rico, examining the role of cement, architecture, the environment, and politics in the context of colonial Puerto Rico to today, as a fellow of CENTRO, Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. He obtained a Bachelor of Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (cum laude) and an MS in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices for architecture from the GSAPP at Columbia University. Further info can be found on his website.