Roberto Rovira

Engineering Campus Park

The ECPark studio sought the long term, phased transformation of the FIU Engineering Campus. It posed the questions: “What does a Park as a Classroom look like? How can the design of outdoor space connect the physical environment of a university to its pedagogical mission? +

Lake Belt Learning Facility

The Lake Belt Learning Facility studio focused on a 35-acre site at the edge of a limestone quarry in Miami-Dade County. The program called for a center that would provide opportunities to learn about the wildlife and vegetation of this area west of Miami, +

Catalysts of Urban Canvas

The course “Catalysts of the Urban Canvas” invites both landscape and architecture students to explore projects that view landscape architecture as prescriptive of urban change and essential to its evolution. +

Nature Preserve Park

Formerly an integral part of the greater Everglades ecosystem, the seven acre FIU Preserve was at the eastern boundary of the fabled “river of grass.” A destination for local wildlife as well as for education, leisure and recreation within the FIU campus, the Preserve studied design solutions that would help learn about the ecology +

Miami Waterfront Park

Exhibited at the 5th European Bienal in Landscape Architecture, as part of the International Exhibition of Landscape and Architectural Schools in Barcelona, Spain. +

Quarry Reclamation Studio

The 4-acre site is located within the 77.5 square mile, limestone-mining district known as “The Lake Belt” in western Miami Dade County, Florida. This project proposes the transformation of this industrial region through the incremental creation of a floating landscape that deploys a series of islands. +

DIGITAL DESIGN IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Through Computer Practices in Landscape Architecture, students explore the integration of computer software in the design, representation and communication of landscape architecture. +

CLUI_South Florida

The studio dealt with a site at the edge of Miami’s Urban Development Boundary–a limit established in the 1970’s to control Miami’s westward development into the Everglades. Students were asked to locate the +

Invented Remote Landscape

Visual Notations teaches drawing skills in multiple media and uses the process of drawing as a medium of investigation, documentation, memory, observation and presentation. +

Visual Notation

Visual Notations teaches drawing skills in multiple media and uses the process of drawing as a medium of investigation, documentation, memory, observation and presentation. +

FIU Sweetwater Studio

The studio rethought the boundary between the Florida International University campus and the city of Sweetwater, FL, to the north. Two communities that have been neighbors for over 30 years, the studio sought to redesign the wide right of way that divides these two communities and create public spaces to bring them together. +

Teaching

Since 2005, Roberto Rovira has taught a Florida International University’s College of Architecture + the Arts in Miami, Florida, where he is Associate Professor & Chair of the Landscape Architecture Department. Roberto’s teaching has been recognized through the Excellence in Design Studio

Teaching Award by the Council of Educators in Landscape Archiecture (CELA), the premier international organization for academics in landscape architecture, through the Excellence in Teaching Award at Florida International University, and through his recognition as an FIU Top Scholar.