Marina studied architecture and philosophy of art and aesthetics. She has lectured at the University of Cambridge and has been visiting professor at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain) and the Universidad Católica in Santiago (Chile). She specialises in histories of architecture and the city, questions of historicity and modernity, archives and politics of historiography, and more recently in feminist and colonial practices. She coauthored Intimate Metropolis: Urban Subjects in the Modern City (Routledge, 2008) and City Cultures: Contemporary Positions on the City (AA Publications, 2010) and has published numerous articles.