Publications
The publications featured here are a small selection of writings by and about Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti. The selected works include monographs and architectural journals dedicated to their lauded projects. These publications focus on their architecture and urban design projects, significant observations regarding both their thoughts on disciplinary issues and cultural processes and how that influences and defines their own practice. An extensive bibliography for research reference is also available on this page. Publications included in the archive can also be further explored through links to the collection finding aid and the library catalog.
FEATURED BOOKS
FEATURED WRITINGS
“Introductions: Jorge Silvetti” (Edited by Rodolphe el-Khoury, 2004)
“The Muses are not Amused: Pandemonium in the House of Architecture” by Jorge Silvetti (Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 2003/Winter 2004)
“Interactive Realms: The Bridge of San Francesco and the Palazzo Sant’Elia” by Jorge Silvetti (Architectural and Urban Environments of Sicily, January 1992)
“Representation and Creativity in Architecture: The Pregnant Moment” by Jorge Silvetti (Representation and Architecture, 1982)
“On Realism in Architecture” by Jorge Silvetti (Harvard Architecture Review, Spring 1980)
“The Beauty of Shadows” by Jorge Silvetti (Oppositions, Summer 1977)
“Four Public Squares in the City of Leonforte, Sicily” by Jorge Silvetti (Assemblage, October 1986)
FEATURED journals
“Fundacion Lariviere” by Fernando Diez (Summa+ Revista 197, March 2023)
“Past and Present in the Wodk of Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti” by Jorge Francisco Liernur (Summa+ Revista 174, January 2019)
“Machado Silvetti in Argentina: Culmination and Beginning” by Fernando Diez (Summa+ Revista 174, January 2019)
“Zetta Polo Dot Building” (Summa+ Revista 174, January 2019)
“Machado and Silvetti Associates” by Florencia Rodriguez (PLOT No. 6, 2011)
(Architecture and Urbanism, 1990)
“Four Public Squares” Architectural Design First Award (Progressive Architecture, January 1985)
“Villa on Lake Pergusa” Architectural Design Award (Progressive Architecture, January 1985)
“Cool, calm, and corrected” (Progressive Architecture, December 1982)
“Rodolfo Machado, Jorge Silvetti: The Steps of Providence, First Award” (Progressive Architecture, January 1980)
“Rodolfo Machado, jorge Silvetti: The Fountain House” Citation (Progressive Architecture, January 1976)
“The Pittsburgh Follies” (Progressive Architecture, July 1974)
Frances Loeb Library
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