Douglass shand tucci biography of williams

Built in Boston
Machado Silvetti & the New Moderns

In the revised and expanded edition, 2000, of this survey of the architects and architecture of greater Boston, Douglass Shand-Tucci refers to Machado and Silvetti as the standard bearers for Boston’s New Moderns.

In Shand-Tucci’s terms, New Moderns have formed Design Firms whose role is to push the envelope and advance the frontiers of the field. They are neither classicist or conventionally modern, but rather draw from totality of architectural history to inform their contemporary work.

Following are a few excerpts from the book.

"According to one's point of view, Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti, are theorists of baffling and impenetrable vision, or now, in the new century, Boston's hottest architects: masters already in their discreet way, of what Lutyens famously called the "great game" of his mature classical mode.

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