FIU SOA Lecture Series featuring Roberto Rovira
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Start: Thursday, October 4, 2012
Location: FIU, 11200 SW 8th, PCA 135, Miami, FL
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Web Site: https://calendar.fiu.edu/events/view/12842
FIU School of Architecture Lecture Series
Roberto Rovira
Date/Time:On October 4, 2012 from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Location: PCA 272
Description:
Roberto is a Registered Landscape Architect, Assistant Professor in the Landscape Architecture Department at Florida International University and Principal of Azimuth Studio, Inc. [www.azimuthstudio.com]. His teaching, research and creative work explore the field of landscape architecture through design and fine art. His projects often test the concepts of time and transformation and the potential of landscape architecture to play a pivotal role in envisioning and shaping public space at the edges between the built and the natural. His teaching and professional work have ranged from environmental installations and competitions, to public art commissions, exhibits and landscape architectural projects.
Roberto obtained a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design [RISD] in 1998, a Diplôme from the Université de Paris Sorbonne’s Cours de Civilisation Française in 1995, and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1990. During his time at RISD, he received the Graduate Merit Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects, and earned the Dean’s Scholar Award. He is the recipient of numerous awards including First Place in the 2005 Miami Monument Design Competition and the 2006 Kauffman Professors Prize sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. In 2007, he was named Landscape Architect of the Year by the American Institute of Architects-Miami Chapter, and won a Bronze Medal in the Unbuilt Category at the 2007 Miami + Beach Bienal for his “Miami Sunspars” project.
His research and teaching have ranged from studies involving Miami’s urban-ecological edge along the Everglades boundary to infrastructure-related and community development grants in the cities of Sweetwater and Opa-Locka, Florida. He has been Lead Designer in national and international projects in New York, Dubai and Miami while consulting for the landscape and planning firm ArquitectonicaGEO. Projects for which he was Senior Landscape Architect at GEO have earned national recognition including the 2007 Silver Medal in Landscape Architecture at the Miami+Beach Bienal, finalist in the 2009 American Society of Landscape Architects National Design Awards in the Analysis & Planning category, and a nomination in the 2009 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards for Excellence in Landscape Design. He recently led GEO's design team on the W Hotel-Dubai project and has also collaborated with the firm on the ongoing Herzog & DeMeuron’s Miami Art Museum.
Since his arrival at FIU in 2005, he has been invited to lecture, share his work and present papers nationally as part of numerous academic and professional conferences and university lecture series and in 2009 was named one of FIU’s “Top Scholars”.
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