Sergio López-Piñeiro
Assistant Professor
office : Hayes Annex B 01F
phone : 716 829 5905
e-mail : sl96@buffalo.edu
website: www.holesofmatter.com
Assistant Professor Sergio López-Piñeiro (Madrid, 1973) is the founder of the architectural practice Holes of Matter. Inspired by Carl Andre’s dictum “A thing is a hole in a thing it is not,” Holes of Matter focuses on constructing blank spaces as catalysts for free life.
Prior to joining the University at Buffalo, López-Piñeiro previously taught at UC Berkeley, Temple University, and the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) in Barcelona. He also held the Peter Reyner Banham Fellow position at the University at Buffalo Department of Architecture during 2006-07.
López-Piñeiro’s work has been published and featured in several national and international publications such as arq: Architecture Research Quarterly, Places, 2G, and the Boston Globe. His project “Scenes in a Concrete Deserta,” a design speculative project rethinking hypostyle spaces, will also be published by Oro Editions in Banham in Buffalo: 5 Years of the Peter Reyner Banham Fellowship at the University at Buffalo Department of Architecture.
Based on his dedication to blankness as the basis for architectural production, López-Piñeiro is also interested in translating this spatial quality into the construction of educational models. His paper “How to Do a Thesis: Practice Models as Instigators of Academic Theses,” presented at the 2010 ACSA Annual Meeting, is an attempt to rethink the traditional academic thesis according to this quality.
A recipient of a New York State Council on the Arts grant, López-Piñeiro has also received grants from The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy and the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo.
López-Piñeiro graduated from ETS Arquitectura Madrid in 1998 and received his M. Arch. degree from Princeton University in 2004, where he was awarded the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize. He has previously worked at NoMad (Madrid, 1998-2000) and at Foreign Office Architects (London, 2000-2002). López-Piñeiro is a registered architect in Spain.
