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Machado and Silvetti Associates

Architecture and Urban Design

THE OFFICE

Machado and Silvetti Associates is an architecture and urban design firm known for distinctive spaces and unique works of architecture in the United States and abroad. Their designs are the result of careful integration of the client´s aspirations, the project's programmatic requirements, and the nature and character of the place for which a proposal is designed. The work does not espouse any signature style, but strives to find that which is unique and important within a given project, and to express that urbanistically and architecturally. The projects are distinctive for their conceptual clarity and visual intensity.

Machado and Silvetti Associates became incorporated in 1985, although principals Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti have been in association since 1974. The firm's projects have been of diverse size and nature, having developed special expertise in Art Museums, educational institutions, and urban design and planning worldwide for Berlin, Beirut, Buenos Aires, Sicily, Frankfurt, San Juan, Pamplona, Rome, Seoul, Singapore, Tenerife, Venice, Vienna, and in the United States for major cities throughout New England, in New York, Texas, California, Utah, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Arkansas among others.

In 1991, the firm was given the first ever Award in Architecture by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for twenty years of "boldly conceived and brilliantly executed urban projects" and the designs were commended for being "uncompromisingly dedicated to envisioning a meaningful architecture of the public realm." Since that time, the office has received three National Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects as well as the AIA Brick in Architecture Award, ten Progressive Architecture awards and citations, twelve design awards from the New England AIA chapter, seventeen Boston Society of Architects awards, including the 2003 Harleston Parker Medal, and the prestigious International Award for Architecture in Stone.

The firm's designs have been published in all major international professional magazines and displayed in numerous exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, most notably at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, at the Biennale di Venezia, at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C., the 1984 I.B.A. Exhibition in Berlin, and at the XVII Triennale di Milano. Three monographs have been produced on the office, Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti: Buildings for Cities (1990), Casas 40: Rodolfo Machado & Jorge Silvetti (1995), and Unprecedented Realism: The Architecture of Machado and Silvetti (1995).

News

Grand Opening of New Silver Spring Civic Building

July 21, 2010


Opening celebrations for the new Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza took place on July 9, 2010. See the linked article for details on the ceremony.

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Mint Museum Grand Opening

June 8, 2010


The Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina will open its doors to the public on Friday, October 1st. The museum is hosting a 24-Hour Grand Opening celebration, which includes a ribbon cutting ceremony and activities for all ages. Please see the link below to the Mint Museum website for additional information.

Mint Museum Grand Opening


New Project Imagery

May 17, 2010


See the following links for imagery of the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina and the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Mint Museum

Chazen Museum


New Photography for the AUB Suliman S. Olayan School of Business

March 11, 2010


See link below for updated photos.

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AUB School of Business Unveiled to the Public

October 26, 2009


Opening celebrations for the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business took place on October 13, 2009. Read the AMEinfo.com article for details on the ceremony.

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Chazen Museum of Art Expansion Under Construction

October 7, 2009

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