Machado and Silvetti Associates

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Jorge Silvetti and
Rodolfo Machado

[L-R] Jorge Silvetti and Rodolfo Machado – © Mark Ostow

Published projects

	Mint Museum After a nation-wide architectural search, Machado and Silvetti Associates was selected as the design architect for this project, in conjunction with Clark...
	Civic Building at Veterans' Plaza The MSA project treats the Civic Building as the terminus of an important pedestrian axis that links the Civic Building and Veterans’ Plaza—via the...
	Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park This project occupies a unique site, characterized by its relatively small area located at the center of colossal surroundings (such as the immense scales of...
	Marcia and John Price Museum Building During the competition stage for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, our approach to the new museum required acknowledging and exploiting its privileged location at...
	Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) The Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) is an organization dedicated to the exhibition and collection of art, as well as the education of the public...
	One Western Avenue The Harvard Graduate Student Housing at One Western Avenue comprises 230,000 square feet of apartment units serving 360 graduate students, as well as an...
	The Getty Villa As an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria, the Getty Villa serves a varied...
	Concord House Densely wooded and characterized by a difficult topography, the thirteen-acre site in Concord, Massachusetts overlooks a private pond and offered few...
	Suliman S. Olayan School of Business A New Business School for the American University of Beirut: Selected in an international invited competition, the Olayan School of Business results from...
	Hassayampa Academic Village This is a major phase of the ASU South Campus Residential Master Plan and is the keystone building located on the south-east edge of Arizona State University...
	Honan-Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library The new Honan-Allston Branch Library is one of twenty-seven branches that provide an important outreach to Boston’s neighborhoods, often serving a dual role...

Brief description

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, and include urban design and planning for Berlin, Beirut, Buenos Aires, Sicily, Frankfurt, San Juan, Seoul, Singapore, Venice, Vienna, and in the United States for Boston, Dallas, Houston, New York, Portland, and San Francisco.

Principals

Rodolfo Machado
Jorge Silvetti

Key projects

2010 - The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
2010 - Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans’ Plaza, Silver Spring, Maryland
2009 - Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
2007 - Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
2007 - Hassayampa Academic Village, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
2007 - Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
2006 - Dewey Square, Urban Master Plan and MBTA Headhouses, Boston, Massachusetts
2006 - The Getty Villa, Malibu, California
2006 - Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts
2004 - South Boston Maritime Park, Boston, Massachusetts
2004 - The Rockefeller Stone Barns, Pocantico Hills, New York
2004 - Atelier 505 Commercial, residential Building, Boston, Massachusetts
2003 - One Western Avenue, Harvard University Graduate Student Housing, Allston, Massachusetts
2002 - Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Master Plan, Boston, Massachusetts
2002 - Wiess College, Rice University, Houston, Texas
2002 - American University of Beirut Campus Master Plan, Beirut, Lebanon
2001 - The Boston Public Library, Honan, Allston Branch, Allston, Massachusetts
2001 - Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
1998 - Scully Hall Dormitory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
1998 - UCSF Mission Bay Master Plan, San Francisco, California
1998 - Princeton University Master Plan, Princeton, New Jersey
1996 - Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park, Battery Park City, New York, New York
1992 - Princeton University Parking Garage, Princeton, New Jersey

Industry affiliations

American Institute of Architects
Boston Society of Architects
Consejo Profesional de Arquitectura y Urbanismo

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