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ROBERT MARINO 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 to the Whitney Museum for American Art.
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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 of 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 that is structurally cellular
at the level of the 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