AFR Summary
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Anthony Frausto-Robledo
President and founder of BritasMedia: Digital
Media and Architectural Consulting.
Anthony is directly responsible for all aspects of developing his
consultancy. He is directly responsible for all projects: their
management, strategic planning, financial control, and all aspects
of design work.
Prior to establishing his own consultancy Anthony worked at Koetter
Kim and Associates, an internationally renowned firm in the
field of urban design and architecture. He was a lead project designer
on a number of building design projects, interiors and building
studies, as well as being a member of large urban design teams on
major UD projects overseas. He was the primary designer on UD and
building studies for the "continued development" and refinement
of the award-winning MIT University Park Master Plan. Prior to KKA,
Anthony worked as a project designer, manager and job captain for
a number of firms in the Boston area and in California. In addition,
he has served a number of clients, including the Boston Architectural
Center, with digital media design services as well as traditional
art media.
Anthony has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Boston Architectural
Center School of Architecture and has studied art and architecture
at SACI/Studio Arts Center
International in Florence, Italy. He is a member of the Thesis
and History and Theory Faculty department at the Boston Architectural
Center and presently serves on that institution's Honors and Awards
Committee.
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AFR Curriculum Vitae
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Education
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1996
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- Harvard GSD Professional Development
Program, Cambridge
- Modern Architecture:
Structure and Event--Discussions with Colin
Rowe
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1989-1996
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- Boston Architectural Center, School of
Architecture, Boston
- Bachelor of
Architecture
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1994
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- SACI/Studio Arts Centers
International, Florence, Italy
- Summer Program: Renaissance
Art and Architectural Studies
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1991-1992
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Northeastern University,
Boston
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1986-1989
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Santa Barbara City College,
Santa Barbara
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Professional Experience
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1996-1998
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- KOETTER, KIM & ASSOCIATES,
Boston
- 40 & 65 Landsdowne,
Building Studies, MIT University Park,
Cambridge
- Landsdowne Quad Urban Design
Studies, MIT University Park,
Cambridge
- 35 Landsdowne Building, MIT
University Park, Cambridge
- 350 Mass. Avenue Lobby
Interiors, MIT University Park,
Cambridge
- Master Planning, MIT
University Park, Cambridge
- Heron Quay, Building
Studies, Canary Wharf, London,
England
- Beirut Central District
Urban Design, Beirut, Lebanon
- MacMillian Hall, Brown
University, Providence, Rhode Island
- Boston Central Artery Ramp
Studies, Urban Design, Boston
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1990-1, 1995
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- ANTHONY FRAUSTO-ROBLEDO/DESIGN PRODUCTION,
Cambridge
- Crowley Residence
Alteration, Cambridge, Mass.
(1995-present)
- Bridge Street Lofts,
Somerville, Massachusetts
(1995)
- Apple Farm/Hopper Residence,
Kesar Falls, Maine
(1991-2:
collaboration w/ Greg
Graham)
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1993-1995
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- THE OFFICE OF MICHAEL ROSENFELD, INC.,
West Acton, Mass.
- Schoen Residence, Weston,
Massachusetts
- Hershey Residence, Concord,
Massachusetts
- South School K-8, South
Andover, Massachusetts
- Sanborn School K-8, Andover,
Massachusetts
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1991-1993
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- TRO/THE RITCHIE
ORGANIZATION, Newton,
Mass.
- St. Francis Hospital New
PCT, Hartford, Conn.
(PA
Awards
Submission)
- Backus Hospital New Entry
Building, Backus, Conn.
(PA
Awards
Submission)
- Springhouse CCRC, Jamaica
Plain, Mass.
(First
Prize Award)
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1989-1991
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- ROTHMAN ROTHMAN HEINEMAN
ARCHITECTS, Boston
- Animal Facilities
Renovations & Addition, Beth Israel
Hospital, Brookline, Mass.
- New Pathology Laboratories,
Beth Israel Hospital, Brookline,
Mass.
- Transgenic Mice Laboratory,
Beth Israel Hospital, Brookline,
Mass.
- 609 Albany Street, Boston
University School of Medicine,
Boston
- Massachusetts General
Hospital Charles Town Offices, Charleston,
Mass.
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1987-1989
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- WARNER & GRAY ARCHITECTS, INC.,
Santa Barbara,
Calif.
- Irmas Residence, Malibu,
Calif.
(Architectural
Digest and Architectural
Record)
- Tunney Residence, Malibu,
Calif.
- Iovine Residence, Malibu,
Calif.
- 267 Middle Road, Malibu,
Calif.
(Architectural
Digest 100
Annual)
- Fairbanks Residence,
Montecito, Calif.
- Thatcher School Library
Addition, Ojai, Calif.
(Commission
Winner-Invited
Competition)
- Valley Club Montecito
Alterations, Montecito, Calif.
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1985-1987
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- MARC WHITMAN DESIGN, Santa
Barbara & Ventura, Calif.
- R.I.O./ Meiner's Oaks
Village Center, Meiner's Oaks,
Calif.
- Stilwell Residences A &
B, Middle Road, Montecito, Calif.
- Transcoast Development Corp,
Lot 35, Residence, Ojai, Calif.
- Frost Residence, Meiner's
Oaks, Calif.
- Presbyterian Church Choir
Renovations, Ojai, Calif.
- Mims Residence, Ojai,
Calif.
- Fauber Residence, Ojai,
Calif.
- Aquisto, Residence, Ojai,
Calif.
- Hay Residence, Ojai,
Calif.
- McDonald Residence, Ojai,
Calif.
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1985
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- OBA, INC., Phoenix,
Arizona
- AT&T Regional Service
Center, Phoenix, Ariz.
- Riley Office Building,
Buckeye, Ariz.
- Paulus Residence,
Scottsdale, Ariz.
- Conley Residence,
Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Professional Narrative
Anthony Frausto-Robledo's professional career in architecture really
began when he was just 18 years old, having apprenticed to a respected
local firm (Lenvik & Minor Architects) in Santa Barbara when
he was still in high school. After high school he spent a year in
Scottsdale, Arizona, working in the office of a Taliesen apprentice
and spending time in the desert, studying nature, the desert light,
architecture and the works of Frank Lloyd Wright. Anthony then decided
to settle into Santa Barbara and to prepare himself academically
for the profession of architecture. During the mid and late 80's
he worked for three different firms in two states, primarily doing
upper-income single-family housing. The only significant impressions
on him during these years were the exemplary regionalist modern
houses of Jack Warner and Paul Gray (Warner & Gray Architects).
These works would have an affect on his early school work and his
interest in the Ticino School of rationalist architecture in Switzerland
and Northern Italy.
Having acquired the skills to lead a large
residential project to completion and direct
others, Anthony moved to Boston to attend the
Boston Architectural Center and obtain his degree.
During these recessionary years Anthony worked
primarily as a senior level draftsman and job
captain until the Backus Hospital project where he
met and worked under senior designer Jeffrey Brown,
both a student and former employee of Fred Koetter
(co-author with Colin Rowe of Collage
City).
This chance encounter with a former Koetter Kim
employee would have a profound impact on the rest
of Anthony's academic and professional career.
Immediately his responsibilities shifted away from
production toward design with the Backus Hospital,
Springhouse CCRC, and Saint Francis Hospital PCT
projects. Anthony spent most of his remaining time
at TRO as a designer in the newly formed "design
group" under the direction of Senior Vice President
Robert Hoye (now President of TRO) and studio,
senior designer Jeffrey Brown.
Anthony later worked for Michael Rosenfeld and worked directly
with him on the design of the Schoen Residence. He would leave this
firm so that he could travel in Europe, pursue his own projects
and complete his thesis.
After graduation Anthony went to work for Koetter,
Kim & Associates where he worked directly with Fred Koetter
and Susie Kim. Most of his experience at KKA would be in urban design
and master planning. Anthony decided leave KKA to start his own
design practice in the spring of 1998--so that he could pursue both
emerging Internet and animation technologies in architecture and
teaching, while simutaneously building a design practice.
The "digital media"-focused practice was named BritasMedia in January,
1999. While Anthony continues with web publishing and digital technologies,
he finds time for traditional architectural projects and theory
research.
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Work Published and Exhibited
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1990-present
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Architectural Digest, May 1990 (Irmas
Residence)
Architectural Record Lighting, August
1990 (Irmas Residence)
- Theory/Praxis: Journal of the Boston
Architectural Center, 1994
- "Heuristics of the Figure-Ground: Emergent
Figures and Embedded Archetypes"
Vienna, Prague, Budapest: Three Cities,
BAC Exhibit, 1996
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Teaching Experience
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1997-present
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- Boston Architectural Center School of
Architecture
- Design Faculty - Thesis
Seminar Companion Studio
- History and Theory Faculty -
Methods of Analysis and
Interpretation
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Research and Writing Projects and
Multimedia
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1997-present
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- Rowe and Wolfflin: Vision, Analytics and
History
- Essay (ongoing)
- This writing and research
project was a direct byproduct of thesis work in
1996, and it has continued to influence
Anthony's current thinking about architectural
production. His initial assumptions about this
project were based on the idea that a particular
mode of vision was common to the work of both of
these men, whose relationship is not yet well
understood. In format, this essay looks
critically at the large corpse of text of Colin
Rowe and Heinrich Wolfflin and their analytic
relationship to each other.
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- Colin Rowe is ...(C) (T) or (H)?
- Essay (early
planning)
- This writing project is not
yet well defined but essentially concerns itself
with one simple question: is Colin by nature a
critic, theorist or historian? While commonly
referred to as one of this centuries most
influential critics, Colin's work, especially in
Collage City, crosses more than one disciplinary
boundary. And, of course, this makes him all the
more interesting.
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- Multimedia Learning\Web-based
Learning
- Web site design
- This project, currently
ongoing, concerns utilizing the World Wide Web
(Internet) and the client-side software that
accesses it to host learning sessions or
tutorials for students at the BAC. This also
concerns the use of animated
content.
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