| a r c h i t e c t u r e | United States Miró Rivera Architects Building a New Arcadia
The award-winning work of Miró Rivera Architects is explored through texts, drawings, and original photography; from the Circuit of the Americas to Vertical House, this richly illustrated book offers a unique approach to understanding architecture and urbanism in Texas and beyond
Miró Rivera Architects Building a New Arcadia JUAN MIRÓ AND MIGUEL RIVERA
JUAN MI RÓ Austin, Texas
M IG UEL RI VERA Austin, Texas Juan Miró and Miguel Rivera are the founders of Miró Rivera Architects, a studio based in Austin, Texas, that has received more than one hundred design awards and that was recognized in ArchDaily’s list of the world’s best architects. Miró is a professor of architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, and both are fellows of the American Institute of Architects.
release date | october 9 x 12 inches, 448 pages, 229 color and 7 b&w photos, 95 color illustrations
Over the course of twenty years, acclaimed studio Miró 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, Miró 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 Jiménez—prominent thinkers in urban design and architecture—and new images by renowned photographers Iwan Baan and Sebastian Schutyser, this book examines Miró 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.
ISBN 978-1-4773-2140-9 $65.00 | £54.00 | C$74.95 hardcover
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