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Pablo Meninato, PhD

Pablo Meninato, PhD

Associate Professor Architecture

Email pablo.meninato@temple.edu

Direct 610-659-9428

Office Location Tyler, Arch205

Pablo Meninato, with his arms crossed, leans on a stool while looking at the camera in an architecture studio space.

Photo by Joseph V. Labolito

Pablo Meninato, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Temple University Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Originally from Argentina, he is an architect, architectural critic, and educator. His work focuses on the intersections of architecture, urbanism, and social change, particularly in Latin America.

Meninato is the recipient of the 2024-2025 Fulbright US Scholar Award and is the President of the Board of the Society of Architectural Historians—Philadelphia Chapter. Meninato’s essays have been published in various magazines and journals. He is the author of several books, including Unexpected Affinities—The History of Type in the Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp (Routledge, 2018), Informality and the City—Theories, Actions and Interventions (coedited, Springer, 2022), the co-authored book Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America (Routledge, 2024), and the coedited volume On Streets: Perspectives on Placemaking, Architecture, and Urban Design (Springer, 2025). His current book project, Reframing Lina Bo Bardi: Architecture as an Expanded Field (coedited, Routledge), is scheduled for publication in fall 2026.

Select Awards

Fulbright US Scholar Award. For a research project titled “Unpacking Lina Bo Bardi: Politics, Multidisciplinarity, and Gender,” in Brazil (2024)

Temple University’s Community-Engaged Course Award. Proposal for a community-driven urban design studio titled “Creating a Network of Community Stations Along North Broad Street” (2026)

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Architecture. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2015

Master of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, 1988

Diploma of Architect, Universidad de Belgrano, 1985

Select Publications

Pablo Meninato and Gregory Marinic (coauthors), Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America. New York, NY: Routledge (2025)

Pablo Meninato and Gregory Marinic (coauthors), Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America. New York, NY: Routledge (2024)

Gregory Marinic and Pablo Meninato (eds.), Informality and the City: Theories, Actions and Interventions. Cham, Switzerland: Springer (2022)

Pablo Meninato, Unexpected Affinities – The History of Type in the Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp. New York, NY: Routledge | Taylor & Francis (2018)