SITIO’s Antonio Fiol-Silva was recently appointed to the Philadelphia Historical Commission by Mayor Jim Kenney. Established in 1955, the Philadelphia Historical Commission is the City of Philadelphia’s regulatory agency responsible for ensuring the preservation of historically significant buildings, structures, sites, objects, interiors and districts in Philadelphia.
The Hoover-Mason Trestle was recently awarded the 2016 ULI Philadelphia Willard G. Rouse III Award. As part of a celebration of the region’s top real estate projects, winners were announced at an awards ceremony on June 15th. SITIO's Antonio Fiol-Silva was Principal-In-Charge and Karen Blanchard was Project Architect of this unique and challenging project while at WRT.
SITIO's Antonio Fiol-Silva participated on a distinguished jury panel of Philadelphia firms representing design excellence for the 2016 Architectural Record Advertising Excellence Awards. Each year Architectural Record recognizes the most effective ads in the building and design marketplace, and the companies and agencies that produce them. The ads are carefully reviewed and judged by a blue ribbon panels of experienced architects representing the breadth of the profession—firms of all sizes working on projects from large-scale commercial to residential and interiors.
Several significant social, economic, environmental and technological factors have emerged in recent years that will have a transformative impact on urban areas in the future. Many cities have been in the forefront in addressing climate change adaptation and mitigation, demographic shifts and changing lifestyle preferences, and fluctuating employment and transportation paradigms. This Panel Discussion: Responding to Change & Building Resilience will highlight some of these external factors and panelists will showcase how different communities are responding to the environmental, housing, transportation, and equity challenges created by these future forces.
Principal Speaker:
Barry Seymour Executive Director, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, Philadelphia, Pa.
Panelists:
Christine Knapp Director, Office of Sustainability, City of Philadelphia, Pa.
Caleb Stratton Principal Planner, City of Hoboken, N.J.
Antonio Fiol-Silva, FAIA, AICP, LEED AP BD+C Chair, Urban Land Institute Philadelphia District Council and Founding Principal, SITIO Architecture + Urbanism, Philadelphia, PA.
DATE: Tuesday, May 17, 2016
TIME: 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Click here for Registration
WHERE: Michael A. Fitts Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania Law School
SITIO Principal Karen Blanchard joins Tiffany Millner and Fon Wang as the keynote speakers for the 2016 Women in Design Dinner at the AIA National Convention in Philadelphia.
SITIO is proud to welcome Karen Blanchard, AIA as Principal. Karen is excited to continue collaborating with Antonio Fiol-Silva, her colleague and mentor while at WRT.
From the GPHH Newletter : Today's business owner is Antonio Fiol-Silva, Founding Principal of SITIO architecture + urbanism, a firm that he launched this Spring after 15 years as a leading Principal at WRT, one of the city's largest and oldest planning and design firms.
What makes your business different from other similar businesses?
The name of our firm, SITIO, hints at the core values that drive our practice. In Spanish, SITIO means place. SITIO also means site, and it is usually used as a word that connotes strategy, specifically as it pertains to the relationship between a site and its broader context. To us that context is multidimensional. It is of course physical and economic, as it is also cultural and personal. Our work strives to make connections, to leverage resources, and to help make other things happen. It also strives to establish a personal connection, so that people can feel that the site - or place - is their own. Our firm approaches that objective through design - the process that can synthesize the many factors that shape our buildings and spaces, and hence structures the way we live. In that aim we are a mission-driven business, seeking to engage and serve other mission and vision driven businesses and organizations.
Antonio Fiol-Silva, ULI Philadelphia Chair and SITIO founding principal, is excited to welcome the Urban Land Institute to Philadelphia for the annual global ULI Spring Meeting!
In preparation for the 2016 AIA Convention, Architectural Record asks SITIO founding principal about his Philadelphia favorites.
Hoover-Mason Trestle wins Best of the Best National Award from Engineering News-Record. As Principal-In-Charge of this unique project, Antonio Fiol-Silva was proud to accept this award with Karen Blanchard, Project Architect, at the ENR gala in New York City.
The Greater Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce recognizes Antonio Fiol-Silva as the Hispanic Professional of the Year in recognition of his achievements and contributions to the Hispanic community at the recent 2016 Alegría Ball.
Taller Puertorriqueño was recently featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Architecture critic Inga Saffron interviews Antonio Fiol-Silva, Principal-In-Charge, about this transformative project that is currently in construction.