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Rafael Viñoly (1944 – 2023)
Rafael Viñoly has been hailed as “the extraordinary Uruguay-born architect whose function-driven, context-inspired buildings made their marks on six continents” (Architectural Digest). In over a half-century of built work, he realized over 600 commissions across most building typologies in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. His enormous body of built work is characterized by the holistic attention to proportion and a sustained structural originality that transcended passing architectural fads.
He laid out his conception of the architectural profession in this text from 1995, which has since been a touchstone for the firm.
“To create the synthesis that is a successful building, the architect needs to be in charge of the complexity of all the technical and cultural aspects of a project. The capacity to lead that process is what requires the special kind of creativity which is unique to the field.
Architecture is not simply an artistic endeavor, or a mere technical or organizational challenge, it is a social practice with a signific
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Rafael Viñoly was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1944 to Roman Viñoly Barreto, a film and theater director and Maria Beceiro, a mathematics teacher. Viñoly, who originally trained for a career as a pianist, was educated at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires. By 1964 at the age of 20 he was a founding partner of Estudio de Arquitectura, which would become one of the largest design studios in Latin America. Viñoly’s early work transformed the landscape of Argentina, where his practice was based. In 1978 Viñoly fled persecution in Argentina and moved to the United States. After serving as a guest lecturer at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, he settled in New York City.
In 1983 he founded Rafael Viñoly Architects PC with offices in Lower Manhattan and London. The firm employs 170 design professionals who serve a broad international clientele. The firm’s philosophy is that: “A building is never the product of an individual&r
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Rafael Vinoly
New York, United States of America
Rafael Vinoly, born in 1944 in Montevideo, is an Uruguayan-born architect living in the United States. He was educated at the University of Buenos Aires, receiving a Diploma in Architecture in 1968 and a Master of Architecture from the School of Architecture and Urbanism in 1969.
He founded the firm Rafael Vinoly Architects PC in 1983. His first major project in New York was the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which was completed in 1988.
In 1989, he won an international competition to design the Tokyo International Forum. Completed in 1996, many people consider this building to be one of the most important cultural complex in Japan. His firm's design was one of the finalists in the World Trade Center design competition.
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