R & R Studios, the collaborative office of Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt is a multidisciplinary practice weaving together visual arts, exhibition, design, architecture and urban design. Celebrated, as one critic put it “as architects of hope” their works propose encounters of stories and spaces, which alternate between the private and the public, the intimate and the monumental, the quotidian and the fantastic suggesting always “imaginary solutions’ for a better world.

Roberto and Rosario received their Diplomas in Architecture from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Argentina. Roberto realized postgraduate studies at the legendary Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City; he has been a visiting artist at the Getty Research Center in Los Angeles and received a Visual Arts Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome. He has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Cornell University and at the University of Maryland. They both currently teach at the University of Miami School of Architecture where Rosario is an Adjunct Professor. In 2007 they published The Peace Project.

They have created award winning landmark projects throughout the United States, and their work has been published in over 200 publications worldwide. Their work has received numerous design awards including several Awards of Excellence from the American Institute of Architects and their projects were recognized by American for the Arts as one of the best public art projects of 2007 & 2013.