Rodolfo Machado

Machado was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1942. He received his Diploma in Architecture from the University of Buenos Aires in 1967. During the 1967–68 academic year, he studied urban design at the Centre de Recherche d'Urbanisme in Paris, France. In 1971, he received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where he continued doctoral studies in architectural theory until 1973. Machado has resided in the United States since 1968 and is a United States citizen.

While studying architecture in Buenos Aires, Machado and Silvetti were members of Arquitectos Asociados, an experimental group formed in 1965 by architecture students and recent graduates of the University of Buenos Aires to collaborate on competitions, commissions, and architectural research.

After his graduate studies, Machado practiced architecture in San Francisco and Pittsburgh before beginning his professional association with Jorge Silvetti in 1974. Early work by Machado and Silvetti included experimental architectural and urban design projects; drawings from their 1970s work, including the Fountain House project, are held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Machado Silvetti

Machado and Silvetti formally incorporated their practice as Machado and Silvetti Associates in Boston in 1985. The firm developed a practice encompassing architecture, urban design, museums, educational institutions, housing, and master planning in the United States and internationally.

In 2015, Stephanie Randazzo Dwyer and Jeffry Burchard became partners and design principals in the firm. In 2025, Machado and Silvetti stepped away from the day-to-day leadership of the practice and became Principal Emeriti, with Randazzo Dwyer and Burchard assuming leadership of the firm.