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| Founded | (1997)[ citation needed ] |
| Location | Miami, Florida |
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Rene Gonzalez Architects (RGA) is an American architectural firm based in Miami, Florida.
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The office was founded in 1997 by Cuban-American architect Rene Gonzalez (b. 1963). Gonzalez received a Bachelor of Design degree from the University of Florida and holds a Master of Architecture degree from UCLA.
RGA designed and curated the product design exhibition Design Matters at Miami’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) in 2000. [1] [2] The firm designed the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) for Ella Fontanals-Cisneros in 2005.
RGA designed the Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation (BCF), a non-profit foundation in Miami, to house the lighting installation Aten Reign by James Turrell, a work that debuted at the artist's retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in 2013, and Richard Serra’s Passage of Time, an undulating 218-foot (66 m) long Cor-Ten steel sculpture, in addition to works by Larry Bell, Fred Sandback and Anish Kapoor. [3] [4] Other museum projects include the 2014 master plan study for the expansion of the Wolfsonian-FIU museum, a building Gonzalez renovated alongside Sarasota School of Architecture architect Mark Hampton in 1992. [5] [6]
Hospitality and commercial projects by the firm include a new wing for The Standard Hotel in Miami, [7] event company KARLA, restaurant Plant, and four boutiques for boutique Alchemist, the flagship of which is located in the 1111 Lincoln Road parking garage designed by architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron. [8] [9]
Notable residential projects include the Indian Creek Residence, which twice broke residential sales records in Miami-Dade County, first in 2012 at $45 million [10] and again in 2019 for $50 million. [11] In 2017, RGA completed the Prairie Avenue Residence in Miami Beach, an elevated house designed to address the challenge of sea-level rise. [12] [13] The house was featured in The New York Times and in the BBC Two miniseries The World's Most Extraordinary Homes . [12]
Key exhibition design projects have included the installation for the third (RED) Auction., [14] which raised $10.5 million, with matching funds from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to support the fight against AIDS on December 5, 2018. [15]
The firm has received recognition[ when? ] for its response to sea-level rise in South Florida. [16]
The Miami chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) recognized the firm's work in 2012 with an H. Samuel Kruse Silver Medal for Design [17] and in 2011 RGA was selected as Firm of the Year. [18] RGA also earned two national AIA awards, one in 2006 for KARLA Conceptual Events [19] and the other in 2011 for Alchemist. [8]
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