Andres Mignucci

Infobox Architect


caption=
name=Andres Mignucci FAIA
nationality=Puerto Rico
birth_date=17 December 1957
birth_place=Ponce, Puerto Rico
death_date=
death_place=
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 RicoParque de los Niños, San Juan, Puerto Rico
awards=Fellow of the American Institute of Architects|

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. cite web|url=http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek05/tw0225/0225fellows.htm|title=AIA Elevates 66 to Fellow; 5 to Honorary Fellow|work=AIArchitect|date=2005-02-28|publisher=American Institute of Architects|accessdate=2007-10-08]

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. In 1980 he worked with N. John Habraken in The Grunsfeld Variations, a research project dealing with the thematic design of urban tissues. [cite book| title = The Grunsfeld Variations| author = 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.
year = 1981
publisher = MIT Laboratory for Architecture and Planning] .

Career

From 1983 to 1986 he worked as urban designer with Stephen Carr and Kevin A. Lynch in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1988, Mignucci returned to Puerto Rico establishing Andrés Mignucci Arquitectos in San Juan. Mignucci divides 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" [cite book| title = Arquitectura Dominicana 1890-1930| author =Jorge Rigau, Emilio Martinez, Andres Mignucci.
year = 1990
publisher = American Institute of Architects Capítulo de Puerto Rico] . 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". [cite book
last = Mignucci
first = Andrés
authorlink =
title = Arquitectura Contemporanea en Puerto Rico 1976-1992
publisher = American Institute of Architects Capítulo de Puerto Rico
year = 1992] .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.

Work

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).

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 [cite book
last = Rispa
first = Raul
authorlink =
title = Iberoamerica Arquitectura
publisher = Tanais Editores
year = 2004] 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

Resources

ee also

Architecture of Puerto Rico

Notes

References

*cite book
last = Mignucci
first = Andrés
authorlink =
title = Arquitectura Contemporanea en Puerto Rico 1976-1992
publisher = American Institute of Architects Capítulo de Puerto Rico
year = 1992
*cite book
last = Rispa
first = Raul
authorlink =
title = Iberoamerica Arquitectura
publisher = Tanais Editores
year = 2004
*cite book
last = Moré
first = Gustavo
authorlink =
title = Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana Nº13
publisher = AAA Editores
year = 2002
*cite book
last = Moré
first = Gustavo
authorlink =
title = Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana Nº22
publisher = AAA Editores
year = 2005
*cite book
last = Noelle
first = Louise
authorlink =
title = Arquitectos Iberoamericanos del Siglo 21
publisher = Fondo Cultural Banamex
year = 2006

External links

*http://www.andresmignucci.com
*http://www.greatbuildings.com/wiki/Andres_Mignucci
*http://www.periferia.org/gente/mignucci.html
*http://www.greatbuildings.com/wiki/Parque_de_los_Niños%2C_San_Juan%2C_Puerto_Rico
*http://www.greatbuildings.com/wiki/La_Ventana_al_Mar%2C_San_Juan%2C_Puerto_Rico
*http://www.santacole.com/resources/galeria/salaprensa/articulos/parque/articulo.jspx?link=parque/articulo.jsp