Miguel Rosales is president and principal designer of Rosales + Partners, a transportation architecture firm based in Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

, Massachusetts.

Miguel Rosales is an Architect specialized in bridge aesthetics

Aesthetics

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste...

 and design. He has more than 20 years of experience in urban design and bridge architecture. His thorough understanding of both structure and design allows him to conceive bridges that are both innovative and visually outstanding. Working closely with the community and accepting their input on the design, he creates bridges that become sources of pride and symbols of the areas in which they are built.

Mr. Rosales was the lead architect and urban designer for Boston’s Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge over the Charles River and the Liberty Bridge in Greenville, South Carolina. His current major U.S. bridge projects include the East End Bridge over the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky; a new pedestrian bridge over the Trinity River in Fort Worth, Texas, and four pedestrian bridges across the Belt Shore Parkway in New York City. He has received grants from the NEA, AIA/AAF, and MIT to research bridge and infrastructure design and is the recipient of several awards including a 1993 Young Architects Design Award from Progressive Architecture magazine.

Education

• The Master of Science in Architecture Studies (SMArchS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
  
  , 1987
• Diploma in Architecture, Universidad Francisco Marroquin
  Universidad Francisco Marroquín
  Universidad Francisco Marroquín is a private, secular, university in Guatemala City, Guatemala. According to the school's website, "the mission of Universidad Francisco Marroquín is to teach and disseminate the ethical, legal and economic principles of a sociey of free and responsible persons."...
  
  , 1985
• Program in Historic Preservation, University of Florida
  University of Florida
  The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
  
  , 1984

Awards and Publications

• Move Massachusetts Design Award for his role as the Lead Architect and Urban Designer for the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge in Boston. 2002

• Individual Research Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
  National Endowment for the Arts
  The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
  
  
  • Publication on Infrastructure Design for the Future

• Advanced Study & Research Scholarship, AIA/American Architecture Foundation
  • Research on Swiss and Spanish bridge structures

• Research Grant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
  
  
  • Bridges of Christian Menn, Switzerland

• 1993 P/A Young Architects Award
  • Published in Progressive Architecture

• AIA Urban Design Award of Excellence
  • Plan for Charles River
    Charles River
    The Charles River is an long river that flows in an overall northeasterly direction in eastern Massachusetts, USA. From its source in Hopkinton, the river travels through 22 cities and towns until reaching the Atlantic Ocean at Boston...
    
     Crossing/Interchange, Central Artery
    Central Artery
    The John F. Fitzgerald Expressway, known locally as the Central Artery, is a section of freeway in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, designated as Interstate 93, U.S. Route 1 and Route 3. It was initially constructed in the 1950s as a partly elevated and partly tunneled divided highway...
    
    /Tunnel Project, 1993

• "Spanning the Charles
  Charles
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  • Structures, January 2000

• "A Textbook Case of Community Participation: Des Moines, Iowa, bridge project designed with local issues in mind"
  • Bridge Builder, February/March 1999

• "Aesthetics in Bridge Engineering"
  • ACEC/MA Insights, May/June 2000

Completed Projects

• Puente Centenario, Panama Canal
  Panama Canal
  The Panama Canal is a ship canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. Built from 1904 to 1914, the canal has seen annual traffic rise from about 1,000 ships early on to 14,702 vessels measuring a total of 309.6...
  
  , Panama

• Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, Boston, Massachusetts

• Liberty Bridge at Falls Park on the Reedy river, Greenville, South Carolina

• George Washington Carver Bridge
  George Washington Carver Bridge
  -Description:The George Washington Carver Bridge is located in Des Moines, Iowa over the Raccoon River. Part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Parkway, the bridge provides three roadway lanes in one direction and two roadway lanes and one bikeway/pedestrian lane in the opposite direction framed by two...
  
  s, Des Moines, Iowa

• Des Moines Pedestrian Bridges
  • Edna M. Griffin Memorial Bridge
  • 40th Street Pedestrian Bridge
  • 44th Street Pedestrian Bridge

• East Locust Street Streetscape Improvements, Des Moines, Iowa

Current projects

• I-74 Quad Cities Environmental Impact Study, Quad Cities, Iowa
  • I-74 Mississippi River Bridge

• Ohio River Bridges, Louisville, Kentucky
  • Kennedy Interchange
  • East End Bridge

• Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge and Maryland Interchange, Washington, DC

• Pedestrian Swing Bridge, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

• Lancaster Pedestrian Bridge, Fort Worth, Texas

• Restoration of historic Longfellow Bridge
  Longfellow Bridge
  The Longfellow Bridge, also known to locals as the "Salt-and-Pepper Bridge" or the "Salt-and-Pepper-Shaker Bridge" due to the shape of its central towers, carries Route 3 and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Red Line across the Charles River to connect Boston's Beacon Hill...
  
  , Boston, Massachusetts

• New York City pedestrian bridges: 4 bridges across the Belt Shore Parkway

• Anacostia Pedestrian Bridge, Washington D.C.

• A new transit/pedestrian bridge over the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon

External links

• Yo Creo en Guatemala Spanish profile of Miguel Rosales