Paul Anthony Saporito, Kim Dubin Saporito, Architecture + Urban Design

Paul Anthony Saporito, Kim Dubin Saporito, Architecture + Urban Design Our office specializes in residential, commercial, and complex urban infill projects. Mr. Between 2003 and 2011 he served on the Boulder Design Advisory Board.

Paul Saporito studied architecture at Cornell University and, after graduation, worked in the office of Bauhaus master Marcel Breuer in Manhattan. Upon receiving his license in New York, Colorado, and Arizona, he established a partnership with William Heinzman in Boulder and was responsible for several large commercial projects. Saporito established his own practice in 1984, engaged primarily with

urban infill. These have been both housing and retail projects, often mixed use, and have involved extensive public process. He received a 1985 city award for the urban design of 13th Street in downtown Boulder recognizing proposals for higher density mixed-use buildings, an arts center, and farmers market along that corridor. Between 1989 and 2000, Paul taught architecture and urban design at the University of Colorado and, with Kim Saporito, established the Rome program which continued for 12 summers in that city. Kim was appointed to teaching positions in both the Architecture and Fine Arts Departments at Cornell. They also taught briefly at the Royal Danish Academy and were invited to jury student work at Yale. Paul was a consultant for Peter Calthorpe Associates on the North Boulder community plan, and more recently advised Roger Trancik, FASLA on a plan for Adirondack hamlets. Saporito was awarded “Preservationist of the Year” in 2002, by Historic Boulder, and was recognized for design work by that same organization in 1992 and 1997. He has assisted citizens in the design, regulatory, and financial aspects of historic downtown property redevelopment. In the Spring of 2016, Paul was invited to participate in the Cornell Rome program where the planning studio is addressing problematic modernist housing districts.

12/28/2025

Album a cura dell'architetto David Napolitano

The original schematic for the S.C. Federal Court had 4 symetric facades (not unlike E.U.R.). As the early design develo...
12/22/2025

The original schematic for the S.C. Federal Court had 4 symetric facades (not unlike E.U.R.). As the early design developed, the mechanical engineers needed vertical shafts at the perimeter. Yours Truly sketched 4 angled tabs at the left of each face, pinwheeling in plan…A bit of the old “contraposto.” Up the chain it went. Breuer soon emerged, with a partner and senior architect in tow, took a brief look and smiled approval.

The 1946 image, of “the square colosseo surprisingly had not only a central feature at the top, but also framework and statuary in the extreme left bay. I had not noticed before.

Combined 4th/5th year undergraduate studio, Spring 1970. On the waterfront of lower Manhattan, manufactured housing was ...
11/20/2025

Combined 4th/5th year undergraduate studio, Spring 1970. On the waterfront of lower Manhattan, manufactured housing was to be floated across from the mothballed Navy Yard. The jury’s emerging consensus was that “Maison redents” were too skinny. It was becoming clear that containment of urban space -streets and squares- would be difficult just by deploying modernist objects. Missing was the pochè of traditional blocks; remnants of which still found in the streets beyond.

This just arrived. From the forward :“‘The Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe’ explains how and why the field of urban de...
10/26/2025

This just arrived.

From the forward :

“‘The Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe’ explains how and why the field of urban design developed coincident with Rowe’s long and influential career, the contributions that he, his students, and his colleagues made to it, how these ideas were disseminated, how they have impacted theory, and have been realized in practice.”

Copiously illustrated and beautifully presented, this almost 700 page volume was edited by James Tice and Steven Hurtt.

09/29/2025

The grid is discussed here by Steven Hurtt:

“Over the past 150 years or so, this pervasive
grid has earned the antipathy of aesthetic-minded urbanists, an antipathy rarely challenged in our current literature.”

And:

“There is common to the grid and the U.S. Constitution, as well as to other specifically American forms, such as jazz and the skyscraper, an overall framework, a structure that unifies but allows for a maximum of individual improvisation, innovation, and independence.”

23 Settembre. Tetti normali. Cleaned up.
09/23/2025

23 Settembre. Tetti normali. Cleaned up.

Common sense.
09/20/2025

Common sense.

A Delaware Senator, Lisa Blunt Rochester, offers wide-ranging solutions to the US housing problem.

….and in full sun.
09/14/2025

….and in full sun.

Just finished painting.
09/11/2025

Just finished painting.

29 August.
08/29/2025

29 August.

7 August.
08/10/2025

7 August.

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