Drawings
Since our founding, Machado Silvetti has embraced the act of sketching, drawing, drafting, and model building as part of the essential process of design. Today these methods are expanded to include digital models and new forms of image generation. We believe that the combination of digital tools and traditional methods of drawing and modeling are essential to creating designs that are both precise and expressive and we celebrate our office’s rich history of drawing and model making through exhibits, lectures and publications, and through the work on active projects.
"Through our drawings and models, we have developed a unique design approach that emphasizes materiality and craft. The recent retrospective exhibit “Unprecedented Realism" showcased Jorge and Rodolfo’s longstanding commitment to the artistry of the architectural drawing and demonstrated the importance of representation in our practice.”
- Jeffry Burchard
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![Unprecedented Realism Retrospective]()
Unprecedented Realism Retrospective
In early fall 2023, Harvard University Graduate School of Design hosted the exhibition, “Unprecedented Realism: Selections from the Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti Collection.” The exhibition, marking both the Frances Loeb Library’s acquisition of the Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti Collection and Jorge’s retirement from the GSD, presents a series of narratives that reflect the evolution of the Machado Silvetti architectural practice over the last five decades.
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![The Work of Machado & Silvetti]()
The Work of Machado & Silvetti
The Work of Machado & Silvetti presents over four decades of Rodolfo and Jorge’s work, spanning the entire history of the office. The book includes a representative selection of built work, design and conceptual proposals, and urban design and planning projects, concluding with a complete record of their work in the form of a Catalogue Raisonné.
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![Reflections on The Times Square Competition]()
Reflections on The Times Square Competition
The situation in which Architecture found itself in the United States thirty years ago was greatly different from today's. My 1984 schematic drawings for Times Square, and the short text that complemented their reading, can be seen as an example of the issues on which architectural discourse necessitated to focus on if it was to be relevant at all. This is how it seemed to me.
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![House in Tunisia: Plan & Model]()
House in Tunisia: Plan & Model
The situation in which Architecture found itself in the United States thirty years ago was greatly different from today's. My 1984 schematic drawings for Times Square, and the short text that complemented their reading, can be seen as an example of the issues on which architectural discourse necessitated to focus on if it was to be relevant at all. This is how it seemed to me.
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