Andres Mignucci

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Andres Mignucci FAIA
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Personal information
Name Andres Mignucci FAIA
Nationality Puerto Rico
Birth date 17 December 1957
Birth place Ponce, Puerto Rico
Work
Practice name Andres Mignucci Arquitectos
Significant buildings Santuario Santo Cristo de los Milagros, Carolina, Puerto Rico
Significant projects La Ventana al Mar, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Parque de los Niños, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Awards and prizes Fellow of the American Institute of Architects

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[edit] Biography

Andrés Mignucci FAIA (born 1957, Ponce, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican architect and urbanist. His work has received recognition for its integration of the disciplines of architecture, urban design and landscape architecture in the creation of public spaces with a sense of place, human scale, and environmental responsibility. In 2005 Andrés Mignucci was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. [1]

[edit] Education

Mignucci studied architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (BS Arch (Honors), 1979) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) receiving a Master of Architecture degree in 1982. At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee he studied under Francis D.K. Ching, Wayne Attoe, Amos Rapoport and Gary Moore. At MIT, Mignucci studied primarily under Maurice K Smith, Jan Wampler FAIA, N. John Habraken and Fernando Domeyko. In 1980 he worked with N. John Habraken in The Grunsfeld Variations, a research project dealing with the thematic design of urban tissues.[2] He was assistant to Giancarlo de Carlo, member of Team 10 in the Parma - Level 3 Design Studio at MIT, and participated in the research for the ILAUD 1980 program in Urbino, Italy.

[edit] Career

From 1983 to 1986 he worked as urban designer with Stephen Carr and Kevin A. Lynch in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His early work included collaboration in the development Master Plans for Reno, NV; Roanoke VA, Chattanooga TN, St. Petersburg, FL, and Providence, RI. In 1986 Mignucci served as lecturer at MIT teaching with German architect Erich Schneider-Wessling (Cologne, 1931). Their competition entry for the Bayer Informationzentrum in Leverküsen, Germany won first prize. The building was completed in 1988. In 1988, Mignucci returned to Puerto Rico establishing Andrés Mignucci Arquitectos in San Juan. Mignucci divided his time between practice, teaching, and research. In 1990, along with architects Jorge Rigau and Emilio Martinez, Mignucci co-directed a collaborative Puerto Rico-Dominican Republic research study on Dominican Architecture in the early 20th century. The work received the 'Research Award at the Bienal de Arquitectura de Santo Domingo and was published under the title Arquitectura Dominicana 1890-1930 [3]. In 1992, as President of the American Institute of Architects-Puerto Rico, Mignucci curated the exhibition and published Arquitectura Contemporanea en Puerto Rico 1976-1992. [4]. Mignucci's main contribution has been in the field of public space design. His major projects include PARQUE DE LOS NIÑOS and PARQUE DE SANTURCE, large scale landscape restoration projects along the Caño de Martin Peña; the El Condado public space system, which includes the PLAZA ANTONIA QUIÑONES, LA VENTANA AL MAR, PLAZA LAS NEREIDAS and PLAZA DEL INDIO; the restoration of PARQUE LUIS MUÑOZ RIVERA (Luis Muñoz Rivera Park), San Juan's oldest public space; and the PLAZA DE ISABELA, the town square in the northwest municipality of Isabela.

Andrés Mignucci is currently Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture at the Polythecnic University of Puerto Rico. In 2008, Mignucci was Visiting Professor at the ETSAB School of Architecture's Laboratorio de la Vivienda del Siglo XXI - Masters Program in Barcelona.

[edit] Work

[edit] Buildings and Projects



La Ventana al Mar (2004) - Bronze Medal: Bienal de Miami + Beach, Miami (2005); Finalist: La Ventana al Mar IV Ibero-American Architecture Biennale, Madrid, Spain (2004); Mention of Honor: AIA Puerto Rico Design Awards (2004).



Parque de los Niños / Children's Park (2000) - Grand Prize / Premio Nacional de Arquitectura: VI Puerto Rico Architecture Biennale (2001); Honor Award: AIA-Puerto Rico Design Awards (2001); Prix du Paysage: Martinique Architecture Biennale (2002); URBE Award for Excellence in Architecture (2001) .



Parque Metropolitano de Santiago (with Gustavo Moré) (2002) - First Prize: International Design Competition, Santiago, Dominican Republic (2002); First Prize-Urban Design: Bienal de Arquitectura de Santo Domingo (2006).

[edit] Honors and Awards

Mignucci was awarded the National Architecture Prize in 2001 for the Parque de los Niños ( Children's Park) in San Juan, Puerto Rico and in 2002 for the School of Fine Arts in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. In 2004-2005, his landmark public space project, La Ventana al Mar, won awards in the American Institute of Architects Puerto Rico Chapter Design Awards, the Puerto Rico Architecture Biennale, the Miami + Beach Architecture Biennale (Bronze Medal) and the Iberoamerican Architecture Biennale [5] held in Madrid, Spain.

FELLOW of the American Institute of Architects, Washington DC, USA, 2005

FELLOW of Institute for Urban Design New York City, NY, USA, 2005

Chandler Prize for Excellence in Architectural Design Boston Society of Architects, 1982

President’s Fellowship University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1979-81

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[edit] See also

Architecture of Puerto Rico

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

  1. ^ AIA Elevates 66 to Fellow; 5 to Honorary Fellow. AIArchitect. American Institute of Architects (2005-02-28). Retrieved on 2007-10-08.
  2. ^ John Habraken others=J.A. Aldrete-Haas, R. Chow, T. Hille, P. Krugmeier, M. Lampkin, A. Mallows, A. Mignucci, Y. Takase, K. Weller, T. Yokouchi. (1981). The Grunsfeld Variations. MIT Laboratory for Architecture and Planning. 
  3. ^ Jorge Rigau, Emilio Martinez, Andres Mignucci. (1990). Arquitectura Dominicana 1890-1930. American Institute of Architects Capítulo de Puerto Rico. 
  4. ^ Mignucci, Andrés (1992). Arquitectura Contemporanea en Puerto Rico 1976-1992. American Institute of Architects Capítulo de Puerto Rico. 
  5. ^ Rispa, Raul (2004). Iberoamerica Arquitectura. Tanais Editores. 
  • Mignucci, Andrés (1992). Arquitectura Contemporanea en Puerto Rico 1976-1992. American Institute of Architects Capítulo de Puerto Rico. 
  • Rispa, Raul (2004). Iberoamerica Arquitectura. Tanais Editores. 
  • Moré, Gustavo (2002). Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana Nº13. AAA Editores. 
  • Moré, Gustavo (2005). Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana Nº22. AAA Editores. 
  • Noelle, Louise (2006). Arquitectos Iberoamericanos del Siglo 21. Fondo Cultural Banamex. 

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