Andrés Mignucci FAIA
Andrés Mignucci FAIA (1957-2022) was a Puerto Rican architect, urbanist, and educator. 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. In 2012, he received the Henry Klumb Award, the highest distinction by the Puerto Rico College of Architects. In 2019, he was appointed Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation of Arts and Literary Arts Scholar-in-Residence at the Bellagio Center in Italy. His research project at the Center, titled Common Ground: Public Space and the Resilient City, explored the role of public space in times of environmental crisis. Mignucci was the recipient of the 2019 Distinguished Professor Award by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. In 2022, Andrés Mignucci was awarded the Gold Medal Award by the American Institute of Architects-Puerto Rico.
Mignucci studied architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) receiving a Master of Architecture degree in 1982. From 1983 to 1986 he worked as urban designer with Stephen Carr and Kevin Lynch in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In 1988, Mignucci returned to Puerto Rico establishing Andrés Mignucci Arquitectos in San Juan. Over the following thirty-four years, Mignucci established a large body of work whose quality was recognized with over twenty-five international, national and local awards for design excellence. He was awarded the National Architecture Prize in 2001 and 2002. His work received awards in the American Institute of Architects Puerto Rico Chapter Design Awards, the Puerto Rico Architecture Biennale, the Miami + Beach Architecture Biennale, and the Iberoamerican Architecture Biennale in Madrid, Spain. In 2016, his public space projects were exhibited at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin as part of their Demopolis: the Right to Public Space exhibition.
His publications include Conversations with Form: A Workbook for Students of Architecture (2014), Contexts: the Muñoz Rivera Park and the Puerto Rico Supreme Court (2012), Supports: Housing and City (2009), Painting for a Specific Floor (2009), Arquitectura Contemporánea en Puerto Rico 1976-1992 (1992), and Arquitectura Dominicana 1890-1930 (1990).
Mignucci taught architecture at the University of Puerto Rico. He was Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar at Arkitekskolen Aarhus in Aarhus, Denmark; at the ETSAB in Barcelona; and at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio; and was a Pelli Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois.
Andrés Mignucci FAIA
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