Articles by Juan Miró, FAIA

Juan Miró, co-founder of Miró Rivera Architects reflects in an opinion piece on the student housing situation in the United States. The architect explores different dormitory conditions across the country and questions whether these leading public universities “enthusiastically endorse the idea of putting thousands of its students in windowless rooms in the name of density and efficiency“.

Juan Miró, co-founder ofMiró Rivera Architects reflects in an opinion piece on the value of American cities. Stating that “when we idealize cities like Copenhagen, we risk losing focus of the fundamental historical differences between the urban trajectories of European and American cities“, the architect and educator draws a timeline of events and urban transformations, in order to explain why it would be more relevant to look on the inside when planning U.S cities, rather than taking examples from the outside.