Juan Miró

Juan Miró is the Director of the Studio Mexico Program and a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Miró has directed Studio Mexico since 1998, a program that affords students the opportunity to travel to and explore Mexican culture through the study of architecture, drawing, and design. He teaches at the School of Architecture and his areas of interests are design, construction; Mexican architecture and architectural history, and the role of architects in the shaping of cities in the U.S. and abroad. He is particularly interested in looking at architectural history with the eyes of a designer.

For the Catalan Spanish artist, see Joan Miró.

Biography

He was born in Barcelona and obtained his professional degree at the Escuela de Arquitectura of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and also studied at Yale University. Additionally, he is a 1989 Fulbright Scholarship recipient. In 1999, Professor Miró won the Texas Excellence in Teaching Award from the UT Ex-Students Association (also known as Texas Exes). The following year, he was honored with the New Faculty Teaching Award by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). In 2004, he took home an "Austin Under 40" award in recognition of his professional and personal contributions to the Austin community.

Professor Miró leads Miró Rivera Architects, an architectural firm located in Austin, Texas. The firm won the 2006 AR Emerging Architecture Award, and works on a variety of projects including institutional, commercial, and residential architecture and urban design. One of their most recent projects was the grandstand and facilities at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA)/Formula 1 (F1) racetrack in Austin, Texas. He is licensed in Spain, Texas, New York, and Utah. As an active member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), he has served as a juror for AIA award competitions at national, state, and local levels.

Prior to forming Miró Rivera Architects, Juan Miró worked in Spain with his father Antonio Miró on a wide range of projects and at Gwathmey Siegel and Associates in New York City from 1991-1996.

Juan Miró lives in Austin, TX.

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