The Shape of Our Existing Buildings Jeffry Burchard, July 20, 2021. Essay. Machado Silvetti Principal, Jeffry Burchard writes about the critical practice of evaluating and extending the use of existing buildings.
Project Stories: Horace Mann School January, 2023. The design process behind the renovation to create a temporary new home for Boston Public Schools' Horace Mann School, the oldest public day school for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in the United States.
Project Interview
The Architecture of Cultural Heritage The Menokin Stabilization, The Getty Villa, Qasr al Muwaiji. October, 2022. Exhibition on the evolution of the Machado Silvetti architectural practice over the last five decades at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
The Ideas and Architecture of Qasr al Muwaij Qasr al Muwaiji, December, 2015. Part II of Jeffry Burchard and Patrick Ruggiero's interview with Jorge Silvetti discussing Qasr al Muwaiji.
The Getty Villa: Part I - Framing Artifacts April 2015 The Getty Trust consolidated all its entities and activities when it moved to the new Getty Center in December 1997. The move, long in its coming, was preceded by years of programming, designing and building the Center.
Concept to Construction
Denver Art Museum’s New Grand Stair Stephanie Randazzo Dwyer & Lucia Valentin, May 2020. The story behind the Welcome Center's new public stair, its innovative use of terrazzo and the reimagining of Gio Ponti's work as a form preservation.
Ringling Façade Jeffry Burchard, December 2017. The design and development of a very green building.
Not Just Green A video from Local Projects With an attention to communities and education, The Stone Barns Center offers a unique approach to what it means to be green.
Sustainable Master Planning Tun Razak Exchange The introduction of a new and varied elevated topography simultaneously accommodates the everyday mechanisms of the urban environment while creating a platform for a successful, efficient and pedestrian-oriented landscape above.
Ensuring Green Futures Provincetown Art Association Museum It is a basic responsibility of Architecture to imagine and implement a future made better through sustainable practices.
Project Stories
Benton Museum of Art The story behind the planning and design of Pomona College's new art museum
Vietnamese-German University The story behind the campus planning and building designs for VGU, a new "academic town" in Vietnam
Denver Art Museum The design process behind the revitalization and expansion of the Denver Art Museum
Dewey Square, Project Story August 2015 The process behind Dewey Square, Machado Silvetti's design for a modern-day urban space with a single contemporary character, unique within the city.
Atelier 505 May 2018 The design of a successful mixed-use building in Boston's Historic South End.
Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park June 2017 The story behind Machado Silvetti’s design for a celebrated waterfront park at the southern tip of Manhattan.
Greening an Oasis December 2015 The Landscaped Surroundings of Qasr al Muwaiji.
Website Relaunch March 2015 Behind the Relaunch of the new Machado Silvetti Website.
Back of House January 2015 A look at the back of house spaces that make some of our best academic and museum projects run.
Reflections on The Times Square Competition April 2014 Rodolfo Machado's entry for the 1984 Times Square Tower Competition is currently featured in an exhibit at the Skyscraper Museum in New York.
The New Moderns January 2000 A chapter from Douglass Shand-Tucci's 'Built in Boston' establishing Machado Silvetti as a premier Boston design firm.
