2013 - Machado Silvetti Architects Wins Glass House Project
Jorge Silvetti, Founder, Principal Machado Silvetti Architects
In 2013, after receiving proposals from all over the word, the Menokin Foundation awarded Machado Silvetti Architects out of Boston the Glass House Project for their amazing concept work through a stunning submission to Menokin’s RFP. Machado Silvetti is one of the premiere architecture firms in the world, and realized the long-term build vision for The Glass House project.
Cover Volume 1 of Machado Silvetti Architects’ Submission for Glass House Project
The Machado Silvetti website reads:
MACHADO SILVETTI is a leading architecture and urban design firm recognized for creating, revitalizing, and expanding distinctive buildings and spaces in the United States and around the world. Its work is diverse in location, scale, and type, and merges contemporary agendas and aesthetics with complex cultural and historic contexts. Machado Silvetti’s research-based approach explores and celebrates each project’s unique character, expressed through designs that are original in their conceptual clarity and visual intensity.
Founding Machado Silvetti Principal Jorge Silvetti states:
“It was a privilege to be chosen by the Menokin Foundation as the architects. … With the decisive involvement of the Foundation, this place is on its way to becoming an active and truly unique cultural and historical resource not only for its region, where it will join as a bright star in a constellation of significant sites, but surely for the nation and the world.”
– JORGE SILVETTI, Founding Principal of Machado Silvetti