Roberto Rovira

Landscape Architecture Magazine article “ICED OUT: The Quest to Obtain STEM Designation for Landscape Architecture Meets the Hard Walls of the Department of Homeland Security” by Brian Barth features analysis by Roberto Rovira (February 2019 / Volume 109 No2).

Roberto Rovira joined panelists: Jonathan Burgess, Nick Katz, Rudy El-Khoury with moderator Andrew Quarrie to discuss the the opportunities and challenges of urban spaces, large and small during SESSION 7 “Spaces”.

Studio Roberto Rovira wins an Award of Honor from the ASLA National Professional Awards in the Research Category for the Ecological Atlas Project.  

Roberto Rovira presenting “Temporary Permanence: Landscapes, Ecology and Public Space” lecture on 21SEP2017 at the University of Guelph, Canada. Sponsored by the Vandergrift Family Endowment in collaboration with the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects / OALA.  

Roberto Rovira releases “Ecological Atlas: Information Modeling for the Natural World“ as part of a lecture by the same name at The Kampong, a National Tropical Botanical Garden in Coconut Grove, Florida, on 20APR2017.

Roberto will be presenting “Plant, Structure and Strategy” as part of the Planted Form and Re-Formation_ Horticultural Interpretation and Invention course by Kimberly Mercurio and Danielle Choi. February 27, 2017.

Roberto Rovira will be presenting, “Constructing Identity: Lessons from the Sky Lounge” at the 2016 European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) conference in Rapperswil, Switzerland, 11-14SEP2016.

Roberto Rovira wins overall 2nd Place and People’s Choice awards at the Council for Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Logo Competition.      

Roberto will be presenting “Pattern, Structure & Plant Poetics” as part of the Poetics of Planting Design course by Kimberly Mercurio and Danielle Choi. March 28, 2015.

The studios of Eric Goldemberg, Nick Gelpi, Jacek Kolasinski, Marilys Nepomechie and Roberto Rovira will open its doors to the public at 6:30pm on Tuesday, 09FEB2016 (420 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL).  Join us!

Roberto was part of the MBUS Exhibit at the Miami New Construction Show held at the Miami Beach Convention Center, 22-25OCT2015, with colleagues Eric Goldemberg, Marilys Nepomechie, Nick Gelpi, and Jacek Kolasinski. Roberto’s Design Talk: Thursday, 22OCT2015, 3:30-4:30pm.

Roberto joins Clemson on 16SEP2015 for his lecture “Crafting Intersections: Inside and Outside Landscape Architecture” as part of the Fall 2015 Clemson Department of Landscape Architecture and Clemson Architecture Foundation Lecture Series.  

Alexandra Alexa from Metropolis Magazine interviews Roberto Rovira in “Q&A: Get to Know This Year’s Emerging Voices“ article.      

Roberto Rovira presented to the Broward Chapter of the National Garden Club, Landscape Design course taught by Marylou Ruiz, District XII Director, Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc.

Roberto Rovira and Raymond Jungles presented their work as part of the “Art in the Urban Landscape” panel moderated by the Wolfsonian’s Christian Larsen during the Citi Collector’s Dinner event at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).   

The Sky Lounge wins an Award of Merit for “Divine Detail” at the AIA-Miami 60th Annual Design Awards Gala celebrated at the Alfred Dupont Building in Downtown Miami. Photo by Manuel Perez-Trujillo

“Synthesis and Process” lecture at University of Guelph, Canada, on Wednesday, 15JAN2013.

The Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Magazine, RISDXYZ, cites the Sky Lounge in the Fall/Winter 2013/14 issue.

Roberto Rovira took part in design reviews at Puerto Rico’s Universidad Católica School of Architecture in Ponce on Friday, 25Oct2013.

Roberto Rovira will be lecturing at the Stuckeman School in Penn State’s College of Arts and Architecture on Wednesday, 25 September 2013 (6pm).

MLA1 Studio reviews with Jill Desimini at Harvard Graduate School of Design  on Friday, 03MAY13.   The studio looks at a re-invention of the surface of Boston’s City Hall Plaza and a re-conceptualization of Olmsted’s Franklin Park.    

“Mapping Landscapes Mapping Time” lecture at Woodbury University School of Architecture on Tuesday, 02APR13, 6:30pm at the Ahmanson Main Space.

Roberto Rovira lectures at the University of Genoa Landscape Department and visits FIU Landscape Architecture and Art & Art History students taking part in their semester abroad in Italy.

“Inexactness and Incompleteness: Explorations in Landscape Architecture” lecture presented during the Fall 2012 FIU School of Architecture Lecture Series on Thursday, 04OCT12, 5pm at the Paul L. Cejas Architecture Building Lecture Hall, PCA135.

“Is Green Good Enough? Why Sustainability Needs Landscape Architecture and Design” lecture sponsored by the Office of Global Learning Initiatives, Academic Affairs, the Student Government Association, and the New York Times.    

“Traces & Translations: Approaches in Landscape Architecture” lecture at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

“Urban Interventions” Exhibit at FIU’s BEA International Gallery at the Paul L. Cejas Architecture Building features projects from Princeton Architectural Press book “Small Scale: Solutions for Better City Living” including the Oakland Interstate 880 project.

Roberto presented “INTERPRETING TIME : Investigations Into the Nature of Landscape” at the annual CELA conference held in Los Angeles from March 30 to April 02, 2011.  

Representing Landscape: A Visual Collection of Landscape Architectural Drawings edited by Nadia Amoroso (Routledge / Taylor & Francis). The book features the work of nine students from FIU Landscape Architecture classes taught by Roberto Rovira.

“Landscape Architecture as Ephemeral and Critical Practice” lecture presented at Miami Dade College as part of the AIA Lecture Series.

Other guest speakers will include: Andy Cao, Dale Chihuly, Daniel Ortega, Jerry van Eyck, Margartet Crawford, Mark Rios, Matthew O’Brien, Mia Lehrer, Pamela Burton, Peter Yeadon and Walter Hood.

Roberto presents “Multifunctional Urban Space” lecture at the “True Urbanism: Designing the Healthy City” conference hosted by the Making Cities Livable in Santa Fe, NM.

Design Book Magazine’s “Miami Sunspars: Inspiring, Iconic, Sustainable” discusses the Miami Sunspars project by Roberto Rovira, the first place competition winner of the 2005 Miami Monument Competition sponsored by Spine3D and AIA Miami.

“Encroachments and Transformations: Exploring the Margins of the Field” lecture at the University of Nevada Las Vegas College of Architecture at 7pm, March 6th 2008.

Hudson Square recently invited five firms to participate in envisioning possibilities for the district’s future development. “Hudson Square Prints Green! Landscape Visions with a Grain of Salt,” imagined the transformation of Hudson Square through its connection with the Hudson River.

Book review on Reinventing the Garden by Louisa Jones (Thames & Hudson: ISBN-10: 0500511330) published in the Fall 2006 issue of Fairchild Tropical Magazine.

Interview for Florida Inside Out magazine for article, “Please Fence Me In: New Designs Put Excitement on the Property Line” by Ernest Beck.

Los Propósitos del Tiempo by Javier Prida from the Colección Banco Central de la República Dominicana, Departamento Cultural features a steel painting / landprint (“Everything is a River II”) and cover design by Roberto Rovira.

“Design Driven Entrepreneurship” presentation at the Kauffman Campuses Initiative Conference  in Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.

Roberto presents “Miami Sunspars” at the FIU Metropolitan Center as part of the MetroForum Breakfast Series on “Sprawl vs. Infill: The Great Urban Debate.”

Roberto’s competition-winning proposal for the Miami Monument, the “Miami Sunspars” is featured in Univision. The Sunspars project was subsequently featured in Design Book Magazine, Univision, El Nuevo Herald newspaper, and National AIA Magazine among others (2005-2008).

Miami Sunspars featured  in El Nuevo Herald Newspaper’s cover story. The Sunspars project was also featured in Design Book Magazine, Univision, El Nuevo Herald newspaper, and National AIA Magazine among others (2005-2008).

Article “An Evolving Skyline” by Noah Bierman from 30NOV2005 talks about the Miami Sunspars project by Roberto Rovira.