The Arts
For nearly four decades Machado Silvetti has been designing architecture that is both expressive of certain ideas and the space for the generation, sharing, and launching of other ideas. This double commitment, to architecture that communicates values and architecture that supports creativity, is found throughout all of our work but is especially potent in our designs for the arts, including those facilities for the fine arts and performing arts, where art and design are studied as a primary medium for engaging the world around us.
We have worked with arts institutions including the Kennedy Center for Theater and the Studio Arts at Hamilton College and the College of Visual Art and Design at the University of North Texas, hubs of innovation, collaboration, experimentation, and artistic expression. These projects demonstrate the power of thoughtful design to support and enhance the creative process, and the impact it can have on the surrounding community.
"Architecture has the power to transcend the physical, to inspire and elevate the human spirit. In our work with performing and visual arts institutions, we strive to create spaces that enhance and amplify the creative process.”
- Jeffry Burchard
Stories:
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![The Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts]()
The Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts
The Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts is sited directly across the lawn from the recently completed Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum, also designed by Machado Silvetti, as part of a collection of buildings around a reconstructed pond that creates a new arts quad at Hamilton College and helps develop connections between the two sides of campus.
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Black Family Visual Arts Center at Dartmouth College
The Visual Arts Center marks the eastern entrance to Dartmouth’s campus and formalizes a mixture of significant buildings into a re-envisioned Arts Precinct for the College. The 105,000 square foot building stretches along Lebanon Street where the institution engages the town of Hanover. At this intersection of the College and community, the project provides a formal lawn and hardscaped Arts Plaza, which invites the public to participate in a renewed focus on the arts at Dartmouth.
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UNT College of Visual Arts and Design
The College of Visual Arts and Design (CVAD) at the University of North Texas is one of the largest art schools in the country and a major hub of innovation for the Dallas Fort Worth area. The new facility matches CVAD’s ambitions and national success, setting a new standard in studio, workshop and teaching spaces for innovative and interdisciplinary arts and design education.
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Shady Hill Elementary School
Located between the famed Mt. Auburn Cemetery and endangered wetlands, the Shady Hill School is a private institution with students from the ages of four to twelve. By constructing three new structures in proximity to an existing arts building, a new courtyard space is created, lined by an elevated wooden deck that allows for the reconnection of two disparate parts of the wetlands. The gymnasia are located at the edge of the playing fields, and rise to their two-story height as they distance themselves from the main campus. The smaller of the two gyms also serves as a performance space, and has been designed accordingly.
