Machado Silvetti

The Getty Villa, a museum devoted to classical arts, was transformed by Machado Silvetti from a private estate into an institution. The project reimagines the museum, adds research, conservation, and facilities, and unifies buildings and gardens through an expansive masterplan connecting spaces and framing views of the Pacific Ocean.

At the Honan Alston Branch of the Public Library in Allston, Massachusetts, we reconceived of a new civic architecture. Three parallel zones—active, meditative, communal—orchestrate the everyday ritual of reading. Where industrial land becomes gathering place, slate and light compose a public library that earns its honors through clarity of purpose. The project was awarded the 2003 National Honor Award for Architecture.

Machado Silvetti’s latest building is aanother parking structure that refuses anonymity—brick and terracotta meet Downtown Cary’s streetscape, bronze chevrons animate the facade, and an ivory-colored spiral stair tower establishes a presence. The gains not just parking, but a building that reinforces human scale and urban vitality; architecture in service of place.

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