R&R Studios is a Miami-based multidisciplinary design collective established by architects and artists Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt. The organization intertwines art, architecture, and urban development in pursuit of cultural exploration and creative endeavors.
Contribution to Architecture and Art
Among their works are the "M," a 45' public artwork in Downtown Miami; "The Living Room" a 42' tall inside-out unfinished home; "Besame Mucho," a "Super-billboard" constructed for the Coachella Music and Arts Festival; and "The Home We Share" at Princeton University, a collection of three social sculptures known as "Flower Fields Forever," "Forget Me Not," and "Dreaming Room". R&R Studios' artworks, among others, belong to the permanent public collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, Princeton University Art Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, the Archives d'Architecture Moderne, in Brussels and private collections around the world.
R&R Studios has received Awards of Excellence from the American Institute of Architects for their Intermodel Station Façade in Warwick, Rhode Island, for the Museum of Art in Ft. Lauderdale, and for the Toftegards Plads Syd in Copenhagen, Denmark. Their work was selected among the best Public Art in 2007 and 2013 by Americans for the Arts. Their work has been published in over 350 publications worldwide, and several books present their work, including an ongoing series titled "Incomplete Works" featuring "M', "The Living Room", and "Museum Works".
Biography
The founders of the studio, Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt, were born in Argentina and have known one another since the age of twelve. Behar and Marquardt received their diplomas in architecture together from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Argentina. Behar also completed postgraduate study at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City, was a visiting artist at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, and received a visiting artist fellowship from the American Academy in Rome. They've taught, lectured, and served as visiting critics at major universities, including Harvard GSD, Yale University, Cornell University, Universita IUAV di Venezia, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, and the University of Maryland. Behar and Marquardt both currently teach at the University of Miami School of Architecture and have earned the moniker "Architects of Hope" for their contributions to art and architecture.
Projects
Exhibitions
Time of Friendship. Museum of Art. Fort Lauderdale. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Absent City. Museum of Contemporary Art. Madison, Wisconsin. (Individual Exhibition). The Peace Project. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Colorado. (Individual Exhibition). Centre International pour la Ville, l’Architecture et le Paysage. Brussels, Belgium.
Publications
Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt. R&R Studios. The Little Book. Miami, Florida: 2015. Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt. R&R Studios. R&R Alphabet. Miami, Florida: 2015. Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt. R&R Studios. The Living Room. Miami, Florida: 2013. Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt. R&R Studios. Museum Works. Miami, Florida: 2013. Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt. R&R Studios. M. Miami, Florida: 2011. Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt. R&R Studios. The Peace Project. Miami, Florida: 2007. Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt. R&R Studios. Here Comes the Sun. Miami, Florida: 2003. Roberto Behar The Architecture of Politics: 1910–1940. Miami, Florida: 1995.