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Jorge Silvetti (born 1942) is a principal of Machado and Silvetti Associates in Boston, USA and Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina he studied Music at the Conservatorio de Musica de Buenos Aires, and later received his diploma in architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He continued his studies at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving his Master of Architecture degree and pursuing post graduate work in the area of architectural theory and criticism. The work of his firm, Machado and Silvetti Associates, ha been recognized as one of the most influential of the last generation. Academic Career

Jorge Silvetti began his long and influential academic career in 1965 at Universidad de La Plata, Argentina as Assistant Professor of the Studio of Mario Soto and Marcos Winograd and continued at Universidad de Buenos Aires in the Studio of Manolo Borthagaray until the violent episode of “The Night of the Long Batons” (July 29th, 1966) with the dismantling of the university under the military regime. He taught at University of California, Berkeley after completing his graduate work and later as Assistant Professor at Carnegie -Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Since 1975, he has taught architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, where he became Professor of Architecture in Design and Design Theory in 1983, was Director of the Master of Architecture program from 1985 to 1990, and was named Nelson Robinson, Jr. Professor of Architecture in 1990. From 1995-2002, he chaired the Department of Architecture at Harvard, where he continues to teach. He has also taught at the Polytechnic Institute of Zurich, the University of Palermo, Sicily and Nihon University, Tokyo among other prestigious universities. Early Professional Career Jorge Sivetti was a founder of “Arquitectos Asociados” in 1965, an experimental group formed by six advanced architecture students at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and two recent graduates, working together in national and international competitions and developing research topics. They were Miguel Baudizzone, Tony Dias, Jorge Erbin, Cacho Korn, Jorge Lestard, Rodolfo Machado, Jorge Silvetti and Tito Varas, all architects of notable trajectories in Argentin and abroad. In Buenos Aires, he apprenticed in the offices of Horacio Baliero, Carmen Córdova Iturburu, Francisco Bullrich and later in the United States with Donald Olsen, AIA in Berkeley, California. Mr. Silvetti’s architectural practice with Rodolfo Machado began in 1973 in San Francisco, California. Some foundational projects of their partnership from this period that established Jorge Silvetti and Rodolfo Machado as distinct voices of their generation include: Fountain House in San Diego, California (1976); House in Djerba, Tunisia (1976); The Steps of Providence in Providence, Rhode Island (1978); Taberna Ancipitis Formae: A Garden Folly in Natchez, Mississippi (1983) Four Public Squares Master Plan and The Tower for Leonforte, Sicily (1983).

'''Recognition and Awards ''' Mr. Silvetti was the first person to receive Progressive Architecture awards in all its three categories: architecture, urban design, and research. He was awarded the mid-career Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome for the year 1985-86. In 2000, he became a juror for the Mies van der Rohe Prize for Latin American Architecture. Mr. Silvetti served as a juror for the Pritzker Architectural Prize from 1996 to 2004 and regularly serves on juries for architectural competitions and awards. Machado and Silvetti Associates Jorge Silvetti and Rodolfo Machado established Machado and Silvetti Associates in 1985. Based in Boston, Massachusetts the firm is known for distinctive spaces and unique works of architecture and urban design 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. In 2008, with the objective of developing projects in Argentina and the rest of Latin America, the firm established an office in Buenos Aires. Machado and Silvetti Associates has received three National Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects: a 1993 award in architecture for the Princeton University Parking Structure, a 1998 urban design award for Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park, and a 2003 award in architecture for the Honan-Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library. The firm has also received ten Progressive Architecture awards, eighteen Boston Society of Architects awards, including the 2003 Harleston Parker Medal, fourteen awards from the New England chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and the First Award in Architecture given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Three monographs have been published on the office, Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti: Buildings for Cities (1989), Casas 40: Rodolfo Machado & Jorge Silvetti (1995), and Unprecedented Realism: The Architecture of Machado and Silvetti (1995) and currently a comprehensive monograph of the work is being produced.

Selected Projects of Machado and Silvetti Associates

Notable office projects of Machado and Silvetti Associates in which Mr. Silvetti served as design principal include: the Honan-Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library(2001); the adaptive reuse of the Rockefeller Stone Barns in upstate New York (2004); an addition to the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in Cape Cod, Massachusetts(2006; the Getty Villa, a center for the study and conservation of classical art in Malibu, California (2006); the expansion of the Bowdoin College Art Museum in Brunswick, Maine(2007); the Black Family Visual Arts Center for Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire(2012); the Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life for New York University(2012); the Oasis Cultural Master Plan for Al AIn, Abu Dhabi (2012) and the International Financial District of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2013). Ongoing projects include: the Menokin Exhibition and Conservation Center in Warsaw, Virginia; as well as the restoration, adaptive re-use and expansion of the historic former home of the Parrish Art Museum to house The Southampton Center, a multi-disciplinary performing arts facility for the Village of Southampton, New York and the Citadel Square in Beirut, Lebanon.