Miguel Rosales

Miguel Rosales (born in Guatemala in 1961) is president and principal designer of Rosales + Partners, a transportation architecture firm based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Miguel Rosales is an Architect specialized in bridge aesthetics and design. He has more than 20 years of experience in urban design and bridge architecture. His thorough understanding of both structure and design allows him to conceive bridges that are both innovative and visually outstanding. Working closely with the community and accepting their input on the design, he creates bridges that become sources of pride and symbols of the areas in which they are built.

Mr. Rosales was the lead architect and urban designer for Boston’s Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge over the Charles River and the Liberty Bridge in Greenville, South Carolina. His current major U.S. bridge projects include the East End Bridge over the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky; a new pedestrian bridge over the Trinity River in Fort Worth, Texas, and four pedestrian bridges across the Belt Shore Parkway in New York City. He has received grants from the NEA, AIA/AAF, and MIT to research bridge and infrastructure design and is the recipient of several awards including a 1993 Young Architects Design Award from Progressive Architecture magazine.

Education

• The Master of Science in Architecture Studies (SMArchS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987
• Diploma in Architecture, Universidad Francisco Marroquin, 1985
• Program in Historic Preservation, University of Florida, 1984

Awards and Publications

• Move Massachusetts Design Award for his role as the Lead Architect and Urban Designer for the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge in Boston. 2002

• Individual Research Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
  • Publication on Infrastructure Design for the Future

• Advanced Study & Research Scholarship, AIA/American Architecture Foundation
  • Research on Swiss and Spanish bridge structures

• Research Grant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Bridges of Christian Menn, Switzerland

• 1993 P/A Young Architects Award
  • Published in Progressive Architecture

• AIA Urban Design Award of Excellence
  • Plan for Charles River Crossing/Interchange, Central Artery/Tunnel Project, 1993

• "Spanning the Charles"
  • Structures, January 2000

• "A Textbook Case of Community Participation: Des Moines, Iowa, bridge project designed with local issues in mind"
  • Bridge Builder, February/March 1999

• "Aesthetics in Bridge Engineering"
  • ACEC/MA Insights, May/June 2000

Completed Projects

• Puente Centenario, Panama Canal, Panama

• Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, Boston, Massachusetts

• Liberty Bridge at Falls Park on the Reedy river, Greenville, South Carolina

• George Washington Carver Bridges, Des Moines, Iowa

• Des Moines Pedestrian Bridges
  • Edna M. Griffin Memorial Bridge
  • 40th Street Pedestrian Bridge
  • 44th Street Pedestrian Bridge

• East Locust Street Streetscape Improvements, Des Moines, Iowa

Current projects

• I-74 Quad Cities Environmental Impact Study, Quad Cities, Iowa
  • I-74 Mississippi River Bridge

• Ohio River Bridges, Louisville, Kentucky
  • Kennedy Interchange
  • East End Bridge

• Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge and Maryland Interchange, Washington, DC

• Pedestrian Swing Bridge, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

• Lancaster Pedestrian Bridge, Fort Worth, Texas

• Restoration of historic Longfellow Bridge, Boston, Massachusetts

• New York City pedestrian bridges: 4 bridges across the Belt Shore Parkway

• Anacostia Pedestrian Bridge, Washington D.C.

• A new transit/pedestrian bridge over the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon

External links

• Yo Creo en Guatemala Spanish profile of Miguel Rosales

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