Machado and Silvetti Associates
Architecture and Urban Design
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
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. See the link below for updated photos.
Chazen Museum of Art Expansion Under Construction
October 7, 2009
The Chazen Museum of Art on the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus is under construction. The design by Machado and Silvetti Associates will add 81,000 square feet to the museum, nearly doubling the gallery space for the permanent collection and temporary exhibits. The expansion is scheduled for completion in the fall of 2011. You can watch the progress live from the link below.
AUB School of Business Nears Completion
August 11, 2009
Opening celebrations for the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business have been scheduled for October 13, 2009. On August 15, 2009 the project will be handed over to the school and will be fully occupied by the start of the fall semester. You can see updated construction photos by clicking the link below.
New York University Announces Plans for New Spiritual Center
June 2, 2009
“The site, on Washington Square South and Thompson Street, will be home to NYU’s Center for Academic and Spiritual Life, which will include spaces for religious observance, offices for NYU’s Chaplains’ Circle, classes, music rehearsals, and conferences, and will include space for an ongoing Catholic presence. The creation of this Center will provide a communal home for our students’ religious and spiritual lives, as well as furnish us with additional academic space in our core area.”