Miro Rivera Architects
Building a New Arcadia
Published on 17. November 2020
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-1-4773-2140-9 (ISBN)
Description
Over the course of twenty years, acclaimed studio MirO Rivera Architects has produced an innovative, refined, and imaginative body of work-both modern and respectful of time-honored building traditions-that embodies the particularities of place and blurs the line between art and architecture. The firm's diverse practice weaves together a commitment to craftsmanship with a honed sense of materiality and space to create structures at once elegant, controlled, and pleasant to inhabit. In all, MirO Rivera Architects has won more than one hundred design awards and represented American architecture at exhibitions worldwide.
The first from the firm, this volume provides critical insight into the studio's creative process through texts, 95 drawings, and 231 photographs, exploring two decades of work that has helped bring Texas architecture onto the international stage. Featuring essays by Michael Sorkin, Nina Rappaport, Juan Luis de las Rivas Sanz, and Carlos JimEnez-prominent thinkers in urban design and architecture-and new images by renowned photographers Iwan Baan and Sebastian Schutyser, this book examines MirO Rivera's approach to Austin as a "landscape city" and situates the firm's work in a global context related to concepts of nature, urbanism, sustainability, and history.
The first from the firm, this volume provides critical insight into the studio's creative process through texts, 95 drawings, and 231 photographs, exploring two decades of work that has helped bring Texas architecture onto the international stage. Featuring essays by Michael Sorkin, Nina Rappaport, Juan Luis de las Rivas Sanz, and Carlos JimEnez-prominent thinkers in urban design and architecture-and new images by renowned photographers Iwan Baan and Sebastian Schutyser, this book examines MirO Rivera's approach to Austin as a "landscape city" and situates the firm's work in a global context related to concepts of nature, urbanism, sustainability, and history.
Reviews / Votes
Juan MirO and Miguel Rivera, along with other writers, tell about their ideas and design journeys in page after page that foreground gorgeous photography and helpful floor plans...I could spend hours paging through this ravishing book. (Austin American Statesman) A thoughtfully conceived volume, 'Building a New Arcadia' offers a terrific overview of MirO Rivera's oeuvre that also, by highlighting examples, widens an understanding of urbanism in Texas, and elsewhere. (Sightlines) What sets this monograph apart from others is the documentation, especially the drawings...These drawings, which must have been specially made for the book, highlight particular assemblies worthy of the reader's attention and, in the case of exploded axons, peel away the facades and other layers to reveal the spaces within. These twenty buildings spanning twenty years make me eager to see what the next twenty years hold for MirO Rivers Architects. (A Daily Dose of Architecture)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Austin, TX
United States
Illustrations
226 color photos, 5 b&w photos, 95 color illus.
Dimensions
Height: 305 mm
Width: 229 mm
Thickness: 56 mm
Weight
2894 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4773-2140-9 (9781477321409)
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Persons
MirO Rivera Architects is an architecture firm based in Austin, Texas, that has garnered over one hundred design awards, including the AR Emerging Architecture Award and Texas Architecture Firm Award, and that was recognized in ArchDaily's 2018 list of the world's best architects. The firm has been featured in numerous exhibitions and publications, including the German Museum of Architecture in Frankfurt, Aedes Gallery in Berlin, Architectural Record, and the Architectural Review.
Juan MirO has lectured and published extensively on the work of MirO Rivera Architects and the role of the architectural profession in civic life. He is the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Urban Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
Miguel Rivera is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a recipient of the AIA National Young Architect Award. He has lectured in the United States and abroad, and his work has appeared in numerous exhibitions throughout Europe and Latin America.
Juan MirO has lectured and published extensively on the work of MirO Rivera Architects and the role of the architectural profession in civic life. He is the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Urban Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
Miguel Rivera is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a recipient of the AIA National Young Architect Award. He has lectured in the United States and abroad, and his work has appeared in numerous exhibitions throughout Europe and Latin America.