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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES |
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Rafael Viñoly’s forty-five years of architectural practice in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia have been consistently driven by the belief that the essential responsibility of architecture is to elevate the public realm. As in his much-publicized proposal for the World Trade Center site, his deepest focus has been on maximizing the opportunity for civic investment generated by every construction project.
Viñoly was born in Uruguay in 1944, and, by the age of twenty, he was a founding partner of Estudio de Arquitectura, which would become one of the largest design studios in Latin America. His celebrated early work transformed the landscape of Argentina, where this practice was based. In 1978, Viñoly moved to the United States. After briefly serving as a guest lecturer at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, he settled in New York in 1979.
In 1983, Viñoly founded Rafael Viñoly Architects PC, a New York-based firm with affiliate offices in London and Los Angeles. Through this highly developed entity, Viñoly has completed many critically acclaimed civic projects as well as private and institutional commissions. His first major New York project was the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, completed in 1988. In 1989, he won an open international competition to design the Tokyo International Forum, the largest and most important cultural complex in Japan. Completed in 1996, this design secured Viñoly’s reputation as an architect of great imagination and immense professional rigor with a proven capacity to create beloved civic and cultural spaces. The 2001 opening of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia marked a similar success in the United States. The building prompted other seminal commissions including Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, and the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, iconic civic gathering spaces in their respective cities. |
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AWARDS |
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Design Honor
Salvadori Center |
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International Fellow
The Royal Institute of British Architects |
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Honorary Doctorate
University of Maryland |
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Medal of Honor
American Institute of Architects
New York City Chapter |
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National Academician
The National Academy |
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BUILDINGS |
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United States
» Las Vegas |
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United States
» New York - Brooklyn |
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South Korea [Taehan Min'guk]
» Seoul |
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United States
» Princeton |
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Japan [Nihon/Nippon]
» Tōkyō |
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United States
» New York - Manhattan |
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United States
» New York - Manhattan |
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Argentina
» Mendoza |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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WRITINGS
BY THE ARCHITECT |
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| Rafael Viñoly, "Museo per bambini verdi", Il giornale dell'architettura 52, giugno 2007, p. 6 (pp. 4-6) |
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 Rafael Viñoly, Rafael Viñoly Architects, Rafael Viñoly, Princeton Architectural Press, New York 2002 |
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"Palmer Stadium. Princeton", Casabella 673/674, dicembre 1999-gennaio 2000/december 1999-january 2000 [USA, architettura come spettacolo], pp. 75-79
Rafael Viñoly, "Dalla relazione di progetto", Casabella 673/674, dicembre 1999-gennaio 2000/december 1999-january 2000 [USA, architettura come spettacolo], p. 75 (75-79) |
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| Rafael Viñoly, "Lo spazio simbolico/The Tokyo International Forum", L'Arca 79, febbraio/february 1994, [Oltre il muro/Beyond the wall], pp. 50-59 |
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| Lucy Bullivant, "Intervista a/Interview with Rafael Viñoly", The Plan 26, maggio/may 2008, "Point of view" pp. 56-59 (51-66) |
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| Text edit by Rafael Viñoly Architects PC |
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