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17-12-2009 
Guest critic at the Architectural Association (AADRL), UK.
Critics included Patrick Schumacher, Ropert Soar, Marcos Cruz, Theo Spyropoulous, Marta Malle-Alemany, among others.

15-12-2009
BD announces new Director of the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, UK.
See announcement by Elizabeth Hopkirk in Building Design. UK
See announcement by Andrea Klettner in The Architects' Journal, UK 
See announcement on Jornal Publico, Portugal
See announcement on Arquitectos.com.pt, Portugal

25-11-2009
Seminar talk 'On Models' at the University of Westminster, London, UK.

02-11-2009 
Lecture ‘Neoplasmatic Design’ at the 3M Prime Lecture Series, Haus der Gegenwart, Munich, Germany.

21-09-2009
Presentation and panel discussion at the Digital Architecture Conference, Building Centre, London, UK.

26-06-2009
Opening of Unit 20 exhibition at the Bartlett Summer Show, University College London, UK.
See review of Bartlett Show by Barbara Ann Campbell-Lange in Building Design, 07.07.2009


11-06-2009
Opening of DS10 exhibition at Open 09, University of Westminster, UK.


04-06-2009
CPD Presentation ‘Neoplasmatic Design’ at tp Bennett, London, UK.


26-05-2009
Presentation and panel discussion at Design Provocations / Creative Capital, Hospital Club, London, UK.


26-05-2009
Guest critic at the Architectural Association (AA Inter 3), UK.


19-05-2009
marcosandmarjan and Unit 20 work included in Perdidos exhibition at Fundación Arquitectura COAM, Madrid, Spain.
Work by Kenny Tsui
Work by Johan Voordouw (upper image), Ben Cowd, marcosandmarjan and Yousef Al-Mehdari (lower image)

05-05-2009
Lecture ‘Crossing the Boundaries’, panel discussion and guest critic at Jornadas Internacionales, Universidad CEU San Pablo, Madrid, Spain.


09-04-2009
Lecture ‘Inlucent Interfaces/Inhabitable Interfaces’ and guest-critic (Studio Huang) at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland.
Critics included Jeffrey Huang, Bernard Cache, Marcos Cruz, among others.


26-03-2009
Crits of Unit 20 at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK.
Critics inlcuded Peg Rawes, Gianluca Amadei, Andrei Martin, Damjan Iliev, Marjan Colletti, Marcos Cruz, Christiana Ioannou, and Christos Papastergiou


23-03-2009
Lecture ‘The Body and the search for Inhabitable Interfaces’ at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.


16-03-2009
Crits of DS10 at the University of Westminster, UK.
Critics included Andrei Martin, Laura Petruso, Ricardo de Ostos, Marjan Colletti, Kester Rattenbury, and Marcos Cruz.


09-03-2009
Lecture ‘Convoluted Flesh’ (back to back with M Colletti) at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark.


05-03-2009 – 11.03.2009
marcosandmarjan run a workshop at CITA - Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Collaboration: Mette Ramsgard Thomsen (CITA), Martin Tamke (CITA)
http://cita.karch.dk/Menu/Workshops/Convoluted+Flesh+%282009%29


03-03-2009
Presentation and panel discussion at Living Architecture, Dana Centre/Science Museum, London, UK.
http://www.danacentre.org.uk/events/2009/03/03/484


28-02-2009
TV Broadcast about Marcos Cruz’s work on RTPN (interview with Isabel Lopes Gomes), Portugal.


19-02-2009
Lecture at Sobre as Ruinas do Futuro on the occasion of Fantasporto – Porto International Film Festival, Teatro Rivoli, Porto, Portugal.
http://jpn.icicom.up.pt/2009/02/20/fantasporto_2009_marcos_cruz_acredita_que_o_futuro_da_arquitectura_esta_na_biotecnologia.html

26-01-2009
Student presentation and panel discussion about DS10 projects at the American University of Cairo, Egypt.
Critics included Prof. Magda Mostafa, Dr. Amr Abdel Kawi, Dr. Omar Nagati, Arch. Yahia Shawkat, Dr. Marjan Colletti, among others.



09-01-2009
Review of Marcos Cruz’s work, Portugal.
Alexandra Prado Coelho. ‘Vamos poder vestir os nossos edifícios?’, in Jornal Público / P2, Domingo 11 Janeiro 09, Portugal, pp. 10-11

Towards an Inside-out Urbanism, Cairo: The Whirling Hub

Marcos Cruz, Marjan Colletti (marcosandmarjan) (2009) [1]

Published in: Magaz Magazine, Cairo Egypt, Oct-Nov 2009.
Intro: Water Flows, Urban Streams, and Cultural Torrents

Others

Workshops

Critic, Juries, Reviews

Senior Lecturer at University of Westminster

Lecturer at UCL

Curated Exhibitions (individual and marcosandmarjan)


2013 'Unit 20' at Bartfest 13 - Slade School of Art UCL, London UK.
Photo: Richard Beckettt

2012 'Unit 20' at Bartfest 12 - Slade School of Art UCL, London UK.

Photo: Barry Wark

2011 'Unit 20' at Bartfest 11 - Slade School of Art UCL, London UK.

2010 'Sublime Flesh' at Venice Biennale (Austrian Pavilion), Venice Italy.

2010 'Sublime Flesh' at Christchurch Spitalfields, London UK.

2010 ‘Unit 20‘ at Bartfest 10 - Slade School of Art UCL, London UK.

2009 ‘DS10’ at OPEN 09 - summer show of the University of Westminster, London UK.



2009 ‘Unit 20‘ at Bartfest 09 - Slade School of Art UCL, London UK.

2008 ‘DS10’ at OPEN 08 - summer show of the University of Westminster, London UK.

2008 ‘Unit 20‘ at Bartfest 08 - Slade School of Art UCL, London UK.


2008 'Taichugng Expo project' at TADA - Taiwan Centre for Art, Design and Architecture, Taichung Taiwan.


2007 ‘DS10’ at OPEN 07 - summer show of the University of Westminster, London UK.

2007 ‘Unit 20‘ at Bartfest 07 - Slade School of Art UCL, London UK.


2006 ‘Unit 20‘ at Bartfest 06 - Slade School of Art UCL, London UK.

2005 ‘Unit 20’ at Bartfest 05 - Slade School of Art UCL, London UK.


2004 ‘Unit 20’ and ‘marcosandmarjan’ at Bartfest 04 - Slade School of Art UCL, London UK.

2004 ‘Bartlett Experiments’ at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo Japan.


2003 ‘Resurface - Unit 20’ at 1st Rotterdam Biennale - NAI, Rotterdam Holland.




2003 ‘Actions re Form’ at Architekturgalerie München, Munique Germany.


2003 ‘Actions re Form’ at CAPC, Coimbra Portugal.

2003 ‘Unit 20’ at Bartfest 03 - Slade School of Art UCL, London UK.

2003 ‘Unit 20’ at Bartfest 03 - Slade School of Art UCL, London UK.

2002 ‘Unit 20’ at Bartfest 02 - Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, London UK.

2002 ‘Unit 20’ (organisation: Salvador Perez Arroyo and Karen Willcox) at the University of Valencia, Spain.



2001 ‘Unit 20’ at Bartfest 01 - Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, London UK.




2000 ‘Unit 20’ at the Bartfest 00 - Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, London UK.

2000 ‘Flesh and Vision: Seis ensaios de arquitectura’ at Forum da Maia, Maia Portugal.



Solo Exhibitions (individual and marcosandmarjan)

2010 ‘London Eight' exhibition at Sci-Arc, Los Angeles USA.
Curated: Sir Peter Cook 
Participants: CJ Lim and Pascal Bronner; Marcos Cruz/Marjan Colletti and Yousef Al-Mehdari; Mark Smout/Laura Allen and Johan Hybschman.


2008 ‘Taichung Expo’ at the TADA Centre, Taichung Taiwan.

2005 ‘Interfaces/Intrafaces’ solo exhibition at Architekturpavillion - TU Braunschweig, Germany.


2005 'marcosandmarjan – Interfaces/Intrafaces’ at Cons2quence Series on Fresh Architecture solo exhibition - iCP, Hamburg Germany.

2005 ‘marcosandmarjan / The Splinewall’ at Feng Chia University, Taichung Taiwan.

2005 ‘marcosandmarjan experiments’ at Feng Chia University, Taichung Taiwan.

2004 ‘Bartlett Experiments’ at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo Japan.

2002 ‘marcosandmarjan’ at Novas Tendências na Arquitectura - Galeria Maus Hábitos, Porto Portugal.
Group Exhibitions (individual and marcosandmarjan)


2013 ‘Algae-Cellunoi’ at 9th ARCHILAB, FRAC, Orleans France.
Photography: Paul Smoothy
2012 'Alga(e)zebo' at Greater London Authority, London UK.

2012 ‘marcosandmarjan’ in ‘Turning Tables’ at Westbourne Studios, London UK.

2011 ‘marcosandmarjan’ in ‘Turning Tables’ at TESTBED 1, London UK.

2009 ‘marcosandmarjan’ in ‘Perdidos’ at Fundación Arquitectura COAM, Madrid Spain.
Photogaphy: Juan Roldan


2008 ‘marcosandmarjan’ in ‘The Urban Tendency’ at P3 Gallery - University of Westminster, London UK.


2006 ‘Marcos Cruz: Hyperdermis’ in ‘ENTRY 2006 - Perspectives and Visions in Design' at Zollverein, Essen Germany.


 Photography: Marcos Cruz

2006 'FLL' in Habitar Portugal - Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon Portugal. 

2006 ‘FLL’ at 238th General Summer Exhibition - Royal Academy of Arts, London UK.
Photogaphy: Marcos Cruz

2006 ‘Lofting House’ in ‘A Casa Portuguesa - Modelos Globais para Casas Locais’ at Consejeria de Cultura de la Junta de Extremadura, Badajoz Spain.

2006 ‘Lofting House’ in ‘A Casa Portuguesa - Modelos Globais para Casas Locais’ at Palacio de Congressos y Exposiciones de Mérida, Merida Spain.

2006 ‘Lofting House’ in ‘A Casa Portuguesa - Modelos Globais para Casas Locais’, COADE, Cáceres Spain.

2006 ‘El Coral’ in Meta.morfosis exhibition at MEIAC - Museu Estremenho Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz Spain.

2005 ‘Lofting House’ at ExperimentaDesign 2005 - Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon Portugal.

2005 ‘marcosandmarjan’ at Metaflux - Casa Municipal da Cultura F. Távora, Aveiro Portugal.

2005 ‘FIA’ at l’Atalante - Academia das Artes dos Açores, Ponta Delgada, Azores Portugal.

2005 ‘Xiyuan’ at 237th General Summer Exhibition - Royal Academy of Arts, London UK.
Photography: Wanda Yu-Ying Hu


2005 ‘marcosandmarjan’ at Metaflux - Fundação Tomi Othake, São Paulo Brazil.

2004 ‘marcosandmarjan’ at Metaflux - Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon Portugal.

2004 ‘marcosandmarjan’ at Avatar Exhibition - Bartlett UCL, London UK.

2004 ‘marcosandmarjan’ at Mladá Britská Architektura - Jaroslav Fragner, Prague Czech Republic.
Photography: Marjan Colletti

2004 ‘marcosandmarjan architects’ at Metaflux - 9th Architecture Venice Biennial, Venice Italy.

2004 ‘marcosandmarjan’ at Bartlett UCL, London UK.

2003 ‘Marcos Cruz: The Inhabitable Flesh of Architecture’ at Bartfest 2003 - Slade School of Art UCL, London UK.

2003 ‘marcosandmarjan’ at Intimacy / Spot on Schools' - Beyond Media/Oltre I Media – 7th international festival for architecture in video - Stazione Leopolda, Florence Italy.

2003 ‘The Bagpipe / Floating Vessel’ at Exposição Geral de Arquitetos - 5. Bienal de Arquitectura e Design de São Paulo, São Paulo Brazil.

2003 ‘marcosandmarjan’ at Influx - Silo Norte Shopping, Porto Portugal.

2003 ‘Actions re Form’ at Architekturgalerie München, Munique Germany.

2003 ‘Actions re Form’ at CAPC, Coimbra Portugal.

2002 ‘New Tomihiro Museum’ at Biennale di Porto Ercole 02 - Forte Stella, Monte Argentario Italy.
Photography: Marjan Colletti


2002 ‘Marcos Cruz: The Inhabitable Flesh of Architecture’ at Bartfest 2002 - Slade School of Art UCL, London UK.

2001 ‘Marcos Cruz: Fleshscape’ at Bartfest 2002 - Slade School of Art UCL, London UK.

2000 ‘Marcos Cruz: Inhabitable Flesh - MPhil/PhD work’ at Delft University of Technology, Delft Holland.

2000 Marcos Cruz at ‘Flesh and Vision: Seis ensaios de arquitectura’ at Forum da Maia, Maia Portugal.

1999 'Marcos Cruz: Fleshscape' Final MArch Exhibition - Bartlett UCL, London UK.

1998 'Marcos Cruz: Fleshscape' at Bartfest 1999 - Bartlett UCL, London UK.

1997 Marcos Cruz at ‘Fragmentos de uma Expedição’, Galeria ESAP, Porto Portugal.

1996 Marcos Cruz at ‘6 Propostas para o Mindelo’, Sta. Casa da Misericórdia, Vila do Conde Portugal.

1995 Marcos Cruz at ‘7 projectos para Campanhã’, Junta de Freguesia de Campanhã, Porto Portugal.

1994 Marcos Cruz at ‘Sombras’, Sala Toc, Vila Nova I la Geltrú, Barcelona Spain.

1994 Marcos Cruz and Duarte Soares Lema at ‘Zaragoza Ribera Norte’, Bienal de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Zaragoza Spain.

1992 Marcos Cruz at ‘10 Anos Escola Superior Artística do Porto’, Galeria ESAP, Porto Portugal.
Others

2005/06 marcosandmarjan
'El Coral - museum extension for MEIAC, Badajoz Spain [unbuilt]
Design team: marcosandmarjan;
Collaboration: Shui Liu

2005 marcosandmarjan - 'Lofting House'
housing project for Moita, Lisbon Portugal [unbuilt]
Design team: marcosandmarjan;
Collaboration: Tze-Chun Wei, Wanda Yu-Ying Hu, Po Chuan


2005 marcosandmarjan - 'Feira Industrial dos Açores'
Ponta Delgada, Azores Portugal [unbuilt]
Design team: marcosandmarjan;
Collaboration: João Albuquerque, Marco Sacchi, Shui Liu

2005 marcosandmarjan - 'Nurbster V - Lisboa Folie'
Lisbon Portugal [unbuilt]
Design team: marcosandmarjan;
Collaboration: João Albuquerque

2004 marcosandmarjan - 'Bai Jia Zhuang Retail and Office Building’
Beijing PRChina [unbuilt]
Design team: marcosandmarjan with J. Lu and S. Pike

2003 marcosandmarjan - 'New Godet Club'
Istanbul Turkey [unbuilt]
Design team: marcosandmarjan;
Collaboration: Jia Lu










1998 Marcos Cruz    
Refurbishment of a restaurant in Cais das Pedras, Porto Portugal [unbuilt]
Design team: Marcos Cruz, J. Albuquerque

1998 Marcos Cruz    
Primary school, Equatorial Guinea [unbuilt]
Design team: Marcos Cruz, Duarte Soares Lema

1998 Marcos Cruz    
One family house in Mindelo, Vila do Conde Portugal [unbuilt]
Design team: Marcos Cruz
Competitions

2009 marcosandmarjan - 'Khataba (Al Jadida) Agrpolis'
competition for a Self-Sufficient City in Cairo
Design team: marcosandmarjan;
Collaboration: Rocky Marchant, Sana Hassan, Nisha Patel, Heba Layas, Kapil Amarnani Chawla

2008 marcosandmarjan
Invited competition for a Christmas tree at Heathrow Terminal 5
Design team: marcosandmarjan

2008 marcosandmarjan - 'Dunes'
invited competition project for a sales centre in Cairo, Egypt
Design team: marcosandmarjan;
Collaboration: Tim Culverhouse, Damjan Iliev, Justin Lau, Abdur Razzak, Haroon Iqbal, Arvind Varsani










2008 marcosandmarjan - 'The Boomerang'
invited competition project for a tower in Dubai
Design team: marcosandmarjan and Salvador Perez-Arroyo, Madrid;
Collaboration in London: Ben Cowd and Johan Voordow

2004 marcosandmarjan - 'Xiyuan'
invited competition for an entertainment complex in Beijing PRChina [first prize, followed by stage C proposal]
Design team: marcosandmarjan with Jia Lu - in competition phase with Jia Lu and Steve Pike;
Collaboration: Nat Keast, James Pike, Shaun Siu Chong, Sirichai Bunchua;
Renderings: Mark Exon, Kenny Tsui;
Model: Keith Watson, Sirichai Bunchua, Andy Shaw










2002 marcosandmarjan - 'New Tomihiro Museum of Shi-Ga'
Azuma Village Japan
Design team: marcosandmarjan;
Collaboration: Andres de Aguilar, Jens Ritter, Steve Pike;
Photography: Wanda Yu-Ying Hu, Steve Pike, Jens Ritter;
Renderings: Jia Lu











2001 marcosandmarjan - 'Hyperdermis'
100% Rubber, UK

2001 marcosandmarjan - 'New England Biolabs’
Massachusetts USA
Design team: marcosandmarjan;
Collaboration: Shao Ming;
Photography: Yu-Ying Hu, Jens Ritter;
Molecular Biology: Orlando de Jesus;
Engineering: Daniel Bosia / Ove Arup and Partners

2000 Marcos Cruz - 'Palos Verdes Art Centre'
Los Angeles USA
Design team: Marcos Cruz, Wanda Yu-Ying Hu, Gwenola Kergall;
Renderings/Text: M. Potter;
Layout: D. Leong;
Engineering: T. Sheehan / Ove Arup and Partners

1998 Marcos Cruz - 'Cais do Rio Douro'
Pinhão Portugal
Design team: Marcos Cruz
Landscape Architecture: M. Cudell;
Engineering: A400

1997 Marcos Cruz - 'New Portuguese Embassy Berlin'
Berlin Germany
Design team: Marcos Cruz, Rui Cunha;
Collaboration: João Diogo;
Landscape Architecture: Laura Costa;
Engineering: A400

1996 Marcos Cruz - 'Raval - UIA96'
Barcelona Spain
Design Team: Marcos Cruz, Luis Guimarães, Julia Sübai, Katja Siller

1994 Marcos Cruz - 'Zaragoza Ribera Norte'
Zaragoza Spain
Design Team: Marcos Cruz, Duarte Soares Lema;
Collaboration: Ana Paula Cachola, Luis Guimarães

1991 Marcos Cruz - 'La Casa Più bella del Mondo',
Reggio N’Emilia Italy
Design team: Marcos Cruz, Ana Paula Cachola, Luis Guimarães, Benita Azevedo, António Pinto with Nicolau Brandão