Gregory Neil Marinic, PhD

Gregory Marinic, PhD is Associate Professor in the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning SAID and Director of URBANIA, a grant-funded research lab. Dr. Marinic is an architectural theorist, historian, educator, and practitioner. He serves on doctoral committees in architecture and planning, and applies his research to teaching design studios, PhD/MS Architecture research methods, and history-theory courses. His teaching has been recognized with national awards from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the American Institute of Architects. He is the recipient of the 2025-26 DAAP Outstanding Research Award.

Dr. Marinic has published four books exploring the intersection of architecture and urban morphology, including Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America (Routledge, 2024), Informality and the City (Springer, 2022), About Streets: Perspectives on Urbanism, Architecture, and Placemaking (Springer, 2025), and The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader (Routledge, 2024). In 2026, he will publish Multilevel Urbanism: Atlanta, the first volume in a forthcoming book series examining the theoretical origins, development, and design of grade-separated urbanism. He has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals including AD Journal, Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, Journal of Architectural Education, Journal of Urbanism, Journal of Urban Affairs, Design Issues, International Journal of Architectural Research, AIA Forward Journal, IntAR Journal of Interventions and Adaptive Reuse, and Perspectives on Global Development & Technology, among others. His recent book chapters include 'Remaking Space in American Suburbia', in The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, the City, and Urban Society (Routledge); ‘Urban Sights’, in The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Design Since 1945 (Routledge); and ’Industrialized Vernaculars: Reassessing Postwar Hybrid Influences on Paul Rudolph and the Sarasota School’, in Arquitectura y Explotación Forzada: El Golfo de México, 1920-1970 (Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas).

He holds over twenty-five years of experience in professional practice. Prior to academia, he worked in architecture firms in New York and London including Rafael Viñoly Architects, Gensler, Tsao & McKown, Yoshihara McKee, ABS-Skarbinski Architects, and William Nicholas Bodouva Architects. At Viñoly, he contributed to RIBA and AIA award-winning civic, academic, performing arts, residential, aviation, master planning, and urban design projects. At ABS-Skarbinski, he designed award-winning affordable housing in Harlem and The Bronx for the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development. In 2008, he established Arquipelago, a practice that has been awarded by the American Institute of Architects, Seoul Metropolitan Government, and Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and exhibited in the AIA New York Center for Architecture, AIA Philadelphia Center for Architecture, Seoul Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Estonian Architecture Museum,TSMD Turkish Architecture Center in Ankara, and the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.

PhD, Architecture: Texas A&M University

Master of Architecture: University of Maryland

BS, Geography-Urban Planning: Ohio University

Certificate of Latin American Studies: Ohio University

History & Theory of Architecture; History & Theory of Urbanism, Informal Urbanism, Urban Design, Multilevel Urbanism, Megastructures, Adaptive Reuse, Historic Preservation 

Shuo Qin (Doctoral ) Chair Status:In Progress

Weiqi Chu (Doctoral ) Chair Status:In Progress

Hazim Alhazmi (Doctoral ) Chair Status:In Progress

Alican Alexandre Yildiz (Doctoral ) Committee Member Status:In Progress

Leo Liu (Doctoral ) Committee Member Status:Completed 2024

Samira Sarabandikachyani (Doctoral ) Committee Member Status:Completed 2024

Nicholas Afadzi (Doctoral ) Committee Member Status:In Progress

Almoiad Alkadam (Doctoral ) Chair Status:In Progress

Megan Phillippe (Doctoral ) Committee Member Status:In Progress

Erona Bexheti (Doctoral ) Committee Member Status:In Progress

Edmond Drenogllava (Doctoral ) Committee Member Status:In Progress

Tamara Nasr (Master ) Chair Status:In Progress

Aronoff Center for Design & Art
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Cincinnati  Ohio, 45221
Phone: 513-556-1126
marinign@ucmail.uc.edu