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THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
NEWSLETTER
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DEAN’S LETTER
The new year promises to be an exciting
time for the School of Architecture. With a new
building under construction and scheduled for
completion in 2005, we look forward to a year of
anticipation and celebration. I write this from a
“front row seat” looking out on the construction
site for the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center. It
has been thrilling to usher the building through the
stages leading up to construction, and now to see
new developments on an almost daily basis. The
new building is of great importance for the School:
the construction year coincides with our 20th
anniversary. The building’s opening in the coming
year truly represents the School’s coming of age.
Architecture has been taught at the
University of Miami for many years – indeed, the
study of architecture here has a rich legacy,
beginning with the University’s founding. The
early teachers of architecture were the creators
of the town founding vision for Coral Gables, from
its inception conceived to revolve around a great
University. Architecture was part of the School of
Engineering and Architecture until 1983 when the
School of Architecture at the University of Miami
was founded.
The story is well known by faculty and
alumni alike: Tad Foote, then the new University
president, was setting a path to enhance the
University. John Steffian, chair of the Department
of Architecture in the School of Engineering and
Architecture, was committed to the improvement
of the program. It wasn’t long before the School of
Architecture was established.
The School’s new status empowered the
faculty to take its future in hand. Encouraged by
trustee David Weaver, in an early visiting
committee meeting, to imagine how to become
the best school of architecture, the faculty charted
a course of action that built on its strengths:
drawing, history, preservation, planning, urban
design, landscape design, traditional architecture,
technology and study abroad.
Our legacy is the work created by faculty,
staff, students, and alumni – work that enriches
the world of architecture and community
building. Ever since, the actions and legacy
initiated by President Foote and Professor
Steffian have characterized the school. Today we
continue to build on these traits. The school is a
place of constant action, as faculty and students
question, learn, explore and grow.
This is a time of great momentum for the
School, as well as for the University of Miami. In
fact, “Momentum” is the name of the University’s
billion dollar fund raising campaign currently
underway. At the School of Architecture we have
SCHOOL OF
SCHOOL OF
ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE
CELEBRATES 20TH
ACADEMIC
ANNIVERSARY
PHILOSOPHY
The
Dean Plater-Zyberk with Leon Krier, designer of
the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center.
many exciting initiatives in progress, which
you’ll read about in these pages. We have a
series of endeavors that fall under the umbrella
of the campaign, for which we are raising funds.
One major outcome of the Momentum
campaign will be the new building. We are
focused on strengthening our intellectual
resources, such as enhancing the holdings of the
Architecture Reference Library, endowing chairs
in historic preservation, urban studies and
community building and real estate, and
increasing our endowment for the Rome
Program, among other endeavors.
To all of you who have participated in
the evolution of the School, I hope you now
look upon it with the satisfaction of
accomplishment. To all of you who have
already participated in the Momentum
Campaign, thank you for your contribution to
our betterment. The new building’s imminent
use has already renewed the faculty’s
momentum in seeking intellectual excellence.
We look forward to having you share
in our celebration in the coming year, as we
honor the past 20 years, welcome the new
building and look forward to a bright future!
Sincerely,
Architecture has been studied at the University of
Miami since 1927, only one year after the
University opened its doors, but an independent
School of Architecture was not established until
1983. This year, in conjunction with the new
building, the School is celebrating its 20th
anniversary, an occasion that prompted a review
of the history of architectural studies at the
University. Below is a brief chronology listing
highlights of the School’s history. For a complete
working timeline, see the School’s website at
www.arc.miami.edu. The School invites additions
and corrections to the timeline posted on our
webpage.
1983: The Department of Architecture is
granted independent school status and
moves to Buildings 48, 49 (designed in
1945 as student housing by Marion L.
Manley, FAIA, in association with Robert
Law Weed and renovated for the School
by Jan Hochstim, AIA) and part of Eaton
Hall. The establishment of an independent
school was largely the initiative of John
Steffian, chairman and professor of the
Department of Architecture. Professor
Nick Patricios is installed as the first dean
of the School of Architecture.
1988: The Master of Architecture in Suburb and
Town Design is initiated.
1990-91: Jose Gelabert-Navia is acting dean.
1991: The Master of Architecture in Computing
in Design is initiated. The spring semester
in Rome program is initiated for undergraduates, following several spring
sessions in Venice.
1992: The first issue of The New City is
published. Following Hurricane Andrew
the School’s faculty consolidates efforts
in design studios and public charrettes to
promote rebuilding South Dade. The
Center for Urban and Community Design
is established.
1993-95: Roger Schluntz is dean.
On December 4, 2002 friends of the School
gathered in the new Visitor Center at Fairchild
Tropical Botanical Garden. The occasion was
the second “Aspirations for Design,” an annual
fundraiser and reception sponsored by Tibor Hollo,
a member of the School’s campaign committee,
to raise funds for the new Architecture building.
About 100 guests attended the event.
Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and live music were the
order of the evening as guests admired the
ballroom and terrace of the new Visitor Center
designed by Professors Joanna Lombard and
Gary Greenan with Duany Plater-Zyberk and
Company. The tropical mural on the ballroom walls
is an Art in Public Places installation painted by
Rosario Marquardt with her partner, Professor
Roberto Behar.
Many thanks are due to the event
committee, which included Tibor Hollo, Stanley
Arkin, Lawrence Beame, James Beauchamp, Joe
1994: The School’s Reference Library, initiated
with faculty and alumni gifts, is
integrated into the University’s library
system as a branch library.
1996: Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk begins deanship.
Monacelli Press publishes Between Two
Towers, The Drawings of the School of
Miami by Vincent Scully. The professional
Master of Architecture degree program
is established.
1998: Luce Foundation awards professorship in
Family and Community Building jointly to
the School of Architecture and the School
of Medicine.
John Harrison, Carlton Cole and Tibor Hollo at
“Aspirations for Design” at Fairchild Tropical
Botanical Garden.
Corradino, Matthew Gorson, John Harrison, Arva
Parks McCabe, Craig Robins, Teresa Weintraub,
Earl Welbaum, Thom Wolek and Bernard
Zyscovich.
are
based
upon its faculty’s belief in the role of
architecture as a civic art that places the
architect at the vital core of society.
Although fictional architects are often
portrayed as isolated visionaries, the
University of Miami School of Architecture
envisions the architect to be central to an
active citizenry. The School’s programs
recognize that history’s most heroic figures
in architecture were fully integrated in the
culture of their time. This understanding has
led to an innovative view of architectural
education that develops each student’s
capacity to participate in the public role of
architecture and to respond creatively to
the inevitable changes that characterize an
engaged modern life.
1987: School of Architecture model shop opens.
1992-93: Jorge Hernandez is acting dean.
F U N D R A I S I N G AT FA I R C H I L D
programs
1984-89: John Thomas Regan is dean.
1991-92: Javier Cenicacelaya is dean.
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
Dean
School’s
2001: Knight Program in Community Building is
established with a grant from the John S.
and James L. Knight Foundation.
2003: Groundbreaking takes place for the Jorge
M. Perez Architecture Center, designed
by Leon Krier and his collaborators,
Merrill and Pastor Architects and
Ferguson Glasgow Schuster Soto, Inc.
THE NEW URBANISM
ARCHIVE
The New Urbanism Archive was initiated in 2002
by Dean Plater-Zyberk, who sent out a call for
submissions to members of the Congress for the
New Urbanism. The archive’s mission is to collect
materials that document the birth and growth of
the New Urbanism and to become the chief
international repository of historical information
about the New Urbanism.
“We’re very excited about the archive,”
said Dean Plater-Zyberk. “The School of Architecture has provided training for many of today’s
leading New Urbanist practitioners, and has
become a center for the study and teaching of the
New Urbanism. Having the archive housed here
is a logical move as well as a serious responsibility. No one has been gathering records and
keeping track of the movement in an organized
way. The archive is our opportunity to gather
important materials before they are lost.”
The initial call for submissions resulted in
more than 200 items, including bound and digital
publications of town planning projects, various
reference and technical materials, books, brochures, reports, photographs and films. During
the past two years, students have been
cataloguing the materials. Students who have
worked on the archive include Mikal Leiva
(BARCH ’03), Ivette Mongalo (MAST ’02), Wyn
Bradley (MARCH ’04), and Christina Miller
(MARCH ’03, MAST ’04). University of Miami
Richter Library Archivist Craig Likness helped
develop the series nomenclature.
As part of the University’s billion-dollar
Momentum fundraising campaign, launched in
October 2003, the School is seeking a $200,000
endowment for the archive in order to dedicate a
library staff person to the establishment of a
retrieval system as well as an active outreach to
sources for additional materials. A list of the
items catalogued is available on the School’s
website, www.arc.miami.edu.
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CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY ON JORGE M. PEREZ ARCHITECTURE CENTER
“A great school of architecture
should have a great building.”
– Jorge M. Perez
Students will be attending classes and lectures,
viewing exhibitions and benefiting from state-ofthe-art educational telecommunications equipment in the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center
beginning in Fall 2005, according to the projected
schedule for the building’s completion.
The groundbreaking reception for the
new building took place on April 29, 2003 and
was attended by over 300 donors, friends, students, faculty and staff. Prior to the reception, the
building’s designer, internationally renowned
urbanist Leon Krier, presented a lecture entitled
“Designing with the Odds” at the University’s
Episcopal Church Center.
The new architecture center designed by
Krier and his collaborators – Merrill and Pastor
Architects of Vero Beach and Ferguson Glasgow
Schuster Soto, Inc. of Coral Gables – has an
octagonal centerpiece lecture hall flanked on one
side by a gallery and classroom and on the other
by a grand portico.
Its simple, classical look will blend
comfortably with its “quite graceful and minimalist”
companions, originally constructed during World
War II and reminiscent of the Bauhaus in design,
explained Dean Plater-Zyberk. “It will be a gathering of buildings that include old as well as
new,” she said. “The building is very important
to the school. We have achieved a certain
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Aerial view of construction site, January 2005.
Groundbreaking ceremony, April 2003. From left, Commisioner Maria Anderson, Darlene Perez, Jorge Perez,
Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Provost Luis Glaser, President Donna Shalala, Dr. Phillip Frost and Leon Krier.
Groundbreaking reception, April 2003. From left, Josette Grassie, Dona Lubin, Jorge Hernandez, Vincent
Scully and Catherine Lynn.
Groundbreaking reception, April 2003. From left,
Constance Brill, Lawrence Brill, Natividad Soto and
Howard Goldstein.
STUDENT NOTES
SCHOOL NOTES
Students in Professor Rocco Ceo’s
graduate design studio won an award for outstanding achievement in the 2004 University of
Miami Citizens Board Research and Creativity
Forum. The 19-member studio submitted the
Bahia Honda Key Documentation Project as their
entry. The project documents the plan of Bahia
Honda Key and its integral relationship to the
Overseas Railroad. The five-week project, which
resulted in seven illustrated panels, involved site
visits, library and online research, and studio work.
Fifth-year student Jenny Broutin (BARCH
’05) worked in the Exhibition Design Department
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
as a summer intern during summer 2003. As part
of her responsibilities, she led two museum tours
weekly.
Juan Collao (BARCH ’04) was recipient
of the Rietz Scholarship, awarded by Art and
Carole Rietz in memory of their son, Howard Rietz.
Juan is the first member of his family to attend
college. He was planning to work and postpone
his college education until he received news that
he had been awarded the scholarship.
Maria Elena Gutierrez (MARCH ’04)
was the first student to complete a master’s
thesis while in residence in Rome. Her thesis is
entitled “The Inhabited Bridge: A Proposal for the
Tiber River in Rome.”
Matthew Trussoni’s (MARCH ’05)
article, “Park East Redevelopment, Wisconsin,”
was published in the Summer 2004 issue of The
Town Paper.
The UM chapter of Students for New
Urbanism was established in 2004. Founding
officers include Lucas Trunnell, Rachel Merson,
Jenny Persson and Jason Walker.
A digital movie by Sima Kunttas, an
undergraduate exchange student from Turkey,
was included in a juried competition and
exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art
during summer 2004.
The School of Architecture and the City of Coral
Gables received an Award of Excellence from the
Florida American Planning Association for the
Coral Gables 2002 Charrette. The award cited the
impressive amount of preparation and public
outreach undertaken by the charrette team. In
addition, Coral Gables Mayor Donald Slesnick and
Commissioner Maria Anderson presented the
Dean with a plaque in appreciation of the School’s
leadership and participation in the charrette.
Craig Ustler, an Orlando developer, visited
the Suburb and Town Design studio seminar and
sponsored a 2004 award for the best student
essay on retail design; students Hao He, Leslye
Howerton, Judith Ismachowiez Soskin, Juan
Mullerat, Moushumi Mandal, Milton Rhodes,
Carmen Rivera and Patrick Weber shared the
award and each received a copy of The New
Civic Art.
The Richter Library received a $1.5
million grant to digitize 100,000 images and
prominence, yet we are housed very modestly. A
lot of people come to visit us and say, ‘You’ve
been doing all this here?’ ”
The new building bears the name of
Jorge M. Perez, founder and CEO of The Related
Group of Florida, a Miami-based real estate development company, and a member of the University’s Board of Trustees, who pledged the lead
gift of $1.5 million for the creation of the building.
“When Elizabeth showed me the plans
for the building, I fell in love with it,” Mr. Perez said.
“It’s not a large building, but it really is a work of
art. And I think a great school of architecture should
have a great building.”
The realization of the 8,600-square-foot
building follows five years of fund raising.
Another key gift on behalf of the Center
comes from the estate of School of Architecture
alumnus Stanley Glasgow (class of 1953) and his
wife Jewell. Mr. Glasgow’s patronage of the
School dates from 1984, when his firm, Ferguson,
Glasgow, Schuster, Soto, Inc., established a
scholarship for UM architecture students. To
commemorate the Glasgows, whose $1.18
million gift was the impetus for a new building,
the lecture hall will be named the Jewell and
Stanley Glasgow Hall. The School also received a
matching Cultural Facilities Grant from the
Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs
for $500,000. The Marshall and Vera Lea Rinker
Foundation, Inc. donated $250,000 to name the
classroom. In addition, $100,000 was donated by
Trustee Leonard Abess and his wife Jayne Abess
and $100,000 was donated by Tom Daly. Other
donors to the building campaign are listed on
page 15. There are several remaining naming
opportunities for the new building, including the
exhibition gallery.
Construction began in the summer of
2003 with the relocation of utilities. The
building’s construction began in late 2003. The
building team includes: the Arellano Construction
Company; Leon Krier; Merrill and Pastor Architects;
Ferguson Glasgow Schuster Soto, Inc.
(architects); Gartek (mechanical, electrical and
plumbing engineers); Geomantic Designs, Inc.
(landscaping); Brill Rodriguez Salas and Associates,
Inc. (structural engineers); and Post Buckley Schuh
& Jernigan, Inc. (civil engineers).
Because the building is part of the School
of Architecture, construction is being held to a
very high standard, explained Dean Plater-Zyberk.
“We are making a special effort to have a building
of extremely high quality,” she said.
The building is also a valuable learning
experience. The construction is “a unique opportunity for students to observe a construction
project from beginning to end,” noted Dean
Plater-Zyberk, who is running a Special Problems
course for students to observe and document the
construction process.
Alhambra Rambla Section from Coral Gables
charrette.
create an image base accessible university-wide.
The grant, awarded by the Mellon Foundation,
involves ARTstor and was announced in February
2004. Images to be digitized will include the
School of Architecture’s Image Archive images
as well as those of the Art Department.
Bill Lane, president of the DunspaughDalton Foundation Inc, presented the School with
a gift of $25,000 towards the establishment of a
professorship in preservation to be named in
honor of Professor Vincent Scully.
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FOURTH YEAR OF
STUDENT WINS DESIGN COMPETITION
AF TER MICHEL ANGELO
CANIN SCHOL ARSHIP
For the fourth year in a row, a UM student has
been awarded the Brian C. Canin Scholarship,
which provides a generous stipend for students
to conduct original research on urban form. This
year the focus is to be historically significant,
small American towns. Carmen Rivera (MARCH
’03) is the recipient of the scholarship.
The scholarship is sponsored by Canin
Associates, a firm based in Orlando that
specializes in urban and environmental planning
and landscape architecture. The program begins
with a two-week orientation in Canin Associates’
office, followed by four to six weeks of travel and
study. It concludes with two weeks at the firm’s
office to complete documentation and present
findings.
UM students who received awards in the
past were: Judith Ismachowicz Soskin (2003),
Ignacio Correa (2002) and John Hess (2001).
BUDDHIST
ARCHITECTURE
SUBJECT OF THE
AMERICAN STUDIO
Winning design for Broad Memorial Competition, by Mark Savary and Marian Martinez.
A group of 30 upper-level School of Architecture
students competed in the Shepard and Ruth K.
Broad Memorial Competition in November 2002.
Sponsored by the Broad family, the competition
required students to design a memorial for the
South Passive Park for the Town of Bay Harbor
Islands, to be renamed Broad Family Park. The
park’s mission is to honor the accomplishments
of the town’s founder, the late Shepard Broad, a
prominent Miami attorney who created the twoisland community from 300 acres of swamp in
Biscayne Bay in 1946 and served as its mayor for
27 years.
Shepard Broad’s son Morris conceived
the idea for the memorial after reading one of the
more than 700 sympathy notes received by the
Broad family after Shepard’s death in 2001. The
letter suggested that a fitting tribute should be
built in the park donated to the town by Shepard
in the mid-1980s.
Morris suggested the idea to SOA
Professor Jan Hochstim, who organized the twoday competition. “It was one of those ideal projects,” said Professor Hochstim. “It had no limits
and no constraints. Students were completely
free to dream anything they wanted.”
“We had an opportunity to visit the site,
which really helped us in visualizing possible
concepts for the memorial,” said architecture student Mark Savary, who teamed with Marian
Martinez on the winning entry, a platform with
two columns representing Shepard Broad and his
wife, Ruth.
“In the end, the subtlety of their design
and its simplicity was what convinced us to
award the top prize to Martinez and Savary,” said
local architect Suzanne Martinson, one of three
judges on the panel, which also included Dean
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and the daughter of
Shepard Broad, Ann Bussel.
The winning entry was presented to the
Town of Bay Harbor Islands.
STUDENTS BUILD KRIER-DESIGNED LECTERN
The “Libica” drawing with its artists, students
Gerald Wood and Sebastian Velez.
The “Libica” drawing shown here was an
exercise completed in Professor Rocco Ceo’s
course Advanced Drawing Research: Michelangelo (ARC 514) in Fall 2002. The purpose was to
explore the issues involved in the production of
full scale drawing “cartoons,” final full scale
drawings used to transfer images for large
paintings to plaster, such as those for the Sistine
Chapel ceiling. The drawing was made with black
china markers on canvas.
The figure Libica is a sibyl, a seer or
priestess associated in classical mythology with
the cult of Apollo. She is one of five such figures
on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The figures are
witnesses to the creation of the world and man,
the fall and the deluge.
The drawing allowed the students to
experience a representational problem that is
larger than one’s field of vision, including the
problem of transfer of scale and the distortions
that might occur in conceiving the figure on a
concave surface.
Students’ models of stupas produced during the
Summer 2004 American Studio.
Transfer students into the School spent Summer
2004 studying stupas (Buddhist shrines) as the
focus of the American Studio, the prerequisite
required of students transferring in as third year
students. The students’ work on stupas was the
focus of an exhibition at the School of
Architecture gallery and was also on view in Fall
2004 at the University’s Convocation Center,
along with the work of the School’s Open City
Studio in Bangkok, in conjunction with the Dalai
Lama’s visit to campus.
The first summer session was taught by
Rafael Fornes and focused on study, documentation, drawing and producing models. The
students documented stupas from all over the
world in order to gain an understanding of the
culture and building types associated with
Buddhist architecture. During the second
summer session, taught by Adib Cure, students
designed a stupa for the University’s Coral
Gables campus.
As part of their studies, students learned
about Buddhist history, theory and practice
through readings and attending lectures. “For
most of the students, it was their first introduction to Buddhism,” Professor Fornes said.
“They loved it. We had Tibetan music during
class and created an altar for the classroom.”
“The students learned a great deal,” said
Professor Cure. “We asked them to do research
on a particular building type that is not very
known to us, and then we asked them to transfer
that knowledge to a new place and new context,
to design using the typology of a Buddhist stupa
while keeping in mind the constraints of the
University of Miami campus.”
STUDENT ART
AUCTION RAISES
FUNDS FOR
ARCHITECTURE
Amina Al Kandari, Alejandro Fernandez-Veraud and Shameen Nneka Lue Qui work on
construction of the lectern.
The Jewell and Stanley Glasgow Hall in the new
Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center will include a
lectern designed by Leon Krier with input from
students and faculty, and built by students
enrolled in three courses taught by Alejandro
Fernandez-Veraud, director of the Model Shop.
The lectern is elliptically shaped and wider
than a typical lectern. Fernandez-Veraud describes
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Drawing of lectern by Leon Krier.
it as “very organic and fluid.” Made of mahogany,
it is being built to extremely high standards. “It is
museum quality construction, built to last several
hundred years,” Fernandez-Veraud says.
In Spring 2004 students made models,
drawings and mock-ups of Krier’s proposals for
the lectern; they also made a model of the
conference table Krier designed for the new
building. Krier then redesigned the lectern to be
shorter and wider, based on comments from
students and faculty. During two summer session
courses, students worked on final drawings for
the lectern and started construction. During the
fall, Fernandez-Veraud and his student assistants
continued to build the lectern.
“It has been exciting to work on
something that was designed by Leon Krier and
that will be an integral part of the new lecture
hall,” said Patrick Weber (MARCH ’05), who was
a graduate assistant for the second summer
course and contined to work on the lectern
through the fall.
FOR HUMANITY
Funds to build mobile HIV-AIDS clinics in subSaharan Africa were augmented by $2,000 raised
by a student art auction held on April 8, 2004. The
auction, organized by the AIAS (American
Institute of Architecture Students) and the School
of Architecture, featured artwork donated by
students and faculty members. Proceeds were
donated to Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit
organization founded in 1999 that promotes
architectural solutions to global, social and
humanitarian crises. Student auctioneers for the
event were Cleary Shay (BARCH ’07) and Jessica
Feldman (BARCH ’07); Sarah Sapone (BARCH
’07), president of AIAS, helped organize the
auction. The event was held at the Women’s Club
of Coconut Grove and co-sponsored by the
Greenstreet Café, The Farm of Beverly Hills and
Utrecht Art Supplies. Cameron Sinclair, the
executive director of Architecture for Humanity,
presented a lecture on campus the following
week, during which he thanked the students for
their efforts.
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STUDENT TRAVEL PROGRAMS
STUDENT AWARDS AND SCHOL ARSHIPS
Henry Adams Medal
Bachelor of Architecture
2004: Jamie Van Dyk
2003: Ellen C. Buckley
Master of Architecture
2004: Scott Baker
2003: Gorata B. Madigele
Henry Adams Certificate
Bachelor of Architecture
2004: Alice V. Oliveira
2003: Marcia Charles
Axonometric, Longtang neighborhood, Shanghai, by Thais Viera, Summer 2002.
The ability to be physically present in a place and
fully experience it through intensive study and
site visits is invaluable for an architect. To that
end, the School of Architecture’s curriculum
includes many opportunities for students to travel
and study internationally. During the 2004-05
academic year, the six-week Open City Studio
will travel to Jaipur, India. Other on-site study
courses during the year explore the Yucatan and its
islands, Puerto Rico, England and Ireland, and a
grand tour of Europe will travel to six cities.
There is an enormous advantage to
learning about a place by being there rather than
studying it from a classroom in Miami, explains
Tomas Lopez-Gottardi, director of the on-site
study courses. “I feel very strongly, and I think all
of the School’s faculty would agree, that the ideal
way to learn about architecture is by visiting the
actual buildings. It’s important for students to
have first-hand experience that shapes their
architectural opinions and values,” he says. “So
much of architectural education is abstract –
your drawings, your classmates’ drawings, the
professors’ slides, the books. It’s not real, not
concrete. Being in a place in person is very
important. And we go to selected places with
very good architecture and urbanism, so students
have access to building types and urban contexts
that are not available locally.”
During the on-site study courses, which
take place during winter intersession, spring
break and the summer session, students typically
start the day with a lecture before visiting
buildings. Students are required to keep a journal,
complete readings and take a final exam.
The Open City Studio program is somewhat different. It takes place in one city each year,
for six weeks during the first summer session.
Generally mornings are spent on site trips and
lectures and afternoons are spent in the studio.
School faculty members rotate in teaching the
course, often in collaboration with faculty
members from local institutions. The studio time
is followed by a 10-day travel period during which
students tour nearby areas; for the program in
India, the travel period will be dedicated to the
architecture of Buddha, with travel to the
Himalayas, Katmandu and Tibet.
The 15-year-old Open City Studio program
has traveled to cities including New London,
Iquitos, Athens, Sevilla, Rome, Lisbon, Tokyo,
Shanghai and Bangkok. Teofilo Victoria, coordinator
of the Open City Studio program, explains that the
program focuses on cultural urbanism, the influence that culture has on the building of cities.
“Students learn about other urban environments
and how questions of city building are resolved in
different parts of the world in response to cultural
influences,” he says. “For students coming from a
new city like Miami, it is very informative to see
these places. It allows one to see many different
approaches to the design of cities, to learn about
what is shared and valued throughout different
cultures, and to see the role that culture plays in the
architecture of the buildings and the construction of
the city.”
GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ROME
Master of Architecture
2004: D’Ann Tollet
2003: Mikhail Webster
Alpha Rho Chi Medal
2004: Luis Bustamante
2003: Brian M. Scandariato
FAIA Bronze Medal
2004: Sarah Fronczak
2003: Fernanda Sotelo
FAIA Scholarship
2004: Jason Soifer
AIA/AAF Scholarship
2004: Leah C. Harper, Marc Newman
2003: Leticia Acosta, Becky Fromm,
Kegan Marshall, Janet Rumble
Alumni Scholarship
2004: Monica F. Bonadies
2003: Adelina Guerrero-Covo
James Branch Scholarship
2004: Maria Solovieva
2003: Peter Nedev
Colin MacDonald Betsch Memorial Awards
2004: Leticia Acosta
2003: Maria Solovieva
Preston Award
2004: Adam J. Flock, Patrick J. Walsh
2003: Benjamin Koren, Michelle Liang
John Ames Steffian Scholarship
2004: Jacob Dunayczan, Claudia Gamarra,
Jonathan J. Ludemann, Cara A. Sequino
2003: Leticia Acosta, Luis Bustamante, Elisa
Cuaron, Alice Oliveira, Ilhyung Roh
Ferguson, Glasgow, Schuster Award
2004: Shanique Rattray
2003: Rachel Valbrun
Students visiting at the Palazzo Falconieri with
Professor Richard John, Rome, September 2003.
In September 2003 the School launched a unique
graduate program in Rome, the Master of Architecture: Research in Roman Architecture and
Urbanism. During its pilot year, eight students and
a resident faculty member spent three semesters
in Rome, based in a 17th century palazzo on the
Piazza Navona.
The School has had a semester program
in Rome for undergraduate students for more than
10 years, and in 2002 it began offering a semester in Rome for graduate students. However, the
three-semester graduate program is unique in its
depth and scope. The impetus behind creating
the program was “to have a degree that allowed
for a thorough exploration of classical architecture and the fundamental principles of urbanism
as they can be studied in Rome,” according to
Teofilo Victoria, director of Graduate Programs.
“Students living in Rome can learn not
just about the formal aspects of architecture but
they can understand the intimate relationship
between architecture and culture,” Professor
Victoria says. “They can experience an architecture that promotes a coherent city, a coherent
urban form.”
The program includes three seminars on
the History and Theory of Roman Architecture
and Urbanism, two courses in Italian language and
three studio projects. The first semester design
studio project involves documentation of classical
structures, in which students study two works by
17th century Roman architect Francesco Borromini.
During the second semester, students work on
architectural drawings based on the views of
Rome by neoclassical engraver Giovanni Battista
Piranesi. In the third semester students reconstruct Plini’s villa, a classic Roman villa with house
and gardens, as described in the letters of the scholar Plini. The students also travel throughout Europe
and to Egypt and Turkey during their time abroad.
Students who participated in the program’s inaugural year were Erika Albright, Cristina
Canton, Mahmoud Farahat, Tabatha Janna, Lorraine
LeFranc, Alfonso Llanes, Benjamin Sirota and
Daniel Villa. Professor Richard John was the
resident faculty member. Several faculty members
were visiting studio critics, including Jorge Trelles,
Adib Cure, Erik Vogt, Carie Penabad, Luis Trelles,
Frank Martinez and Douglas Duany.
Lidia Abello Memorial Scholarship
2004: Rhea Bosland, Elma Felix
2003: Larissa Jimenez, Michelle Lauterwasser,
Melissa Williams
The Craig Ustler Writing Award
2004: Hao He, Leslye Howerton, Judith
Ismachowiez Soskin, Juan Mullerat, Moushumi
Mandal, Milton Rhodes, Carmen Rivera,
Patrick Weber
CSI-UM Specifications Writing Competition
2003: First Place, Marcia Charles, Sofia Jones;
Second Place, Nicholas Azevedo, Ellen Buckley;
Third Place, Roberto Rivero, Alfonso Langone;
Honorable Mention, Kevin McAlarnen, David Kraft
2003: Seth Behn
The Miami-Dade County Resident Scholarship
2004: Michelle Liang
2003: Jamie Van Dyk
The Judith Seymour Memorial Scholarship
2004: Jamie Van Dyk
2003: Marcus Chaidez
Villagers Preservation Scholarship
2003: Daniel Corbin, Matthew Foster, Marisa
Picard
Induction of New Members of Tau Sigma
Delta Honor Society
2004: James M. Brackenhoff, Andrea Lynn
Desposito, Claudia M. Gamarra, Jesus GonzalezSimon, Leah Claire Harper, Holly K. Henry,
Larissa V. Jimenez, Lauren W. Koutrelakos,
Nicole M. Kraft, Michelle Lauterwasser,
Michelle Marie Liang, Jonathan J. Ludemann,
Kegan Marshall, Christina M. Rodriguez,
Leanne Louise Skuse, Adrienne Tilton
2003: Leticia Acosta, Zachary Adelson,
Joshua Arcurio, Maria Blanes, Jennifer Broutin,
Daniel Corbin, Matthew Croatti, Russell C.
Dowling, Becky Fromm, Sarah Fronczak,
Florian Klee, Matthew Lambert, Jennifer
Persson, Maria Solovieva, Sheena Toomey,
Rachel Valbrun, Jamie Van Dyk
Knight Program Service Award
2003: Christopher Block
Knight Program Award for Outstanding Knight
Scholars
2003: Carolina Arias-Smith, Malik Benjamin,
Russell Preston, Raquel Raimundez
Center for Community and Urban Design Award
2004: Hao He
2003: Fernando Odiago, David Woshinsky
School of Architecture Undergraduate
Student Award
2004: Joanne Fiebe, Kevin McAlarnen
2003: Marc Rosenberg
School of Architecture Graduate Student
Award
2004: Christina Miller
2003: Jose Venegas
Faculty Award for Student Service
2004: Stephanie Bradley, Rachel Merson, Sarah
Sapone, Maria Solovieva, Lucas Trunnell,
Veruska Vasconez
2003: Graham Ivory, Christina Miller, Marc
Rosenberg, Brian M. Scandariato
Faculty Award for Part-Time Faculty
2004: Gerald DeMarco, Derrick Smith
2003: Oscar Machado
Faculty Award for Alumni Service
2004: Ivan Heredia, Maikel Leyva, George
Pastor, Dick Schuster, Natividad Soto
2003: Felicia Salazar
Faculty Award for Outstanding Contribution
to the Profession
2004: Miguelangelo Hinojosa, Christopher
Janson, Dana Keith, Andres Prieto
2003: Maria Nardi
Professor of the Year
2004: Gregory Castillo
2003: Adib Cure
McLamore Memorial Scholarship
2004-05: Nicholas Serfass
2003-04: Nicholas Serfass
2002-03: Elena Romero
The Villagers Scholarships
The Nancy Chambers Pierce Memorial Villager
Scholarship
2004: Rhea Bosland
2003: Alice Oliviera
The Henriette Nolan Harris Memorial Scholarship
2004: David Payne
Recipients of the 2004 Craig Ustler Writing Award.
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EXHIBITIONS
Each year, the School of Architecture presents a
number of exhibitions in the School’s gallery;
faculty also curate exhibitions in other venues.
The exhibitions represent a variety of efforts.
Some include student work, while others are
traveling exhibitions. The following is a selection
of those from the past two years.
The Living Traditions of Coconut Grove
The Living Traditions of Coconut Grove
showcased an interdisciplinary initiative at the
University of Miami. West Coconut Grove has
since 1999 provided a “community building”
opportunity for students and faculty from the
University’s schools of Architecture, Arts &
Sciences, Communication, Law, Medicine and
the departments of History and Art to work
toward improving the environment for residents
of this neglected area. Several projects have
been implemented that address design, health
and child welfare, legal and business issues.
The exhibition was on view at the Lowe
Art Museum August 17 – November 3, 2002.
Several events were held in conjunction with the
exhibition, including a reception hosted by
President Donna Shalala and a lecture by Samina
Quraeshi, the University’s Henry R. Luce Professor
in Family and Community and founder of INUSE,
the University of Miami Initiative for Urban and
Social Ecology, which oversees the West Grove
project. The event included performances of
gospel music by church choirs from the Grove.
For the exhibition, the gallery walls were
painted in Caribbean colors, reflecting the
Bahamian roots of the West Grove settlers. The
gallery space was transformed into a streetscape
to symbolize Grand Avenue, the core of the
community. The exhibition included oral histories
by history classes, documentary films by School of
Communication students, photography from the
School of Art, designs and drawings of schools,
theaters and housing by School of Architecture
students, and paintings by local children.
Images of Cuba
Images of Cuba
was on view at the
School’s gallery from
March 20 – April 18,
2003. It was a condensed version of the
exhibitions held during
the Primera Bienal de
Arquitectura de la
Habana in 2002. In l982, Havana was declared a
World Heritage Site by UNESCO. “Havana is a
city where it is possible to survey a wide range of
architectural styles and urban settings, dating
back from the 16th century. Today it is at the crux
of many a discourse related to the preservation of
historic centers,” said Isabel Leon Calderon, who
facilitated the material for this exhibition. Images
of Cuba afforded local professionals and students
a glimpse into the uphill struggles related to the
preservation of the built domain of the historic
city, the process involved and the economic
implications of sustainable planning.
Cruelty and Utopia: Cities and Landscapes
of Latin America
Professor Jean-Francois Lejeune curated
an international, 10,000-square-foot exhibition on
Latin American urbanism and architecture at the
International Center for the City, Architecture and
Landscape (CIVA) in Brussels during 2004. The
exhibition explored the foundation and evolution
of Latin American cities and their architecture,
taking into account myth, utopia, fiction and
reality. The exhibition gathered original drawings,
plans, sculptures, models and paintings from
institutions including the Archives of the Indies
LECTURES, EXHIBITIONS AND SYMPOSIA
FALL 2002 – SPRING 2003
Sept 12 Sept 27
Rome Drawings, Student Work, SOA
Gallery
Nov 10 Nov 20
Bernard Khoury: Recent Work,
SOA Gallery
Lectures
Sept 17
Oct 2 - 11
Miami-Dessau: New Urbanism in
Germany’s Industrial Garden Realm,
SOA Gallery
Jan 12 Feb 6
Tropical Wallpaper, SOA Gallery
“Architecture and Urbanism in Las
Americas (AULA): Miami Tropical,”
panel discussion and book signing
with Andres Duany as moderator, and
panelists Roberto Behar, Jean-Francois
Lejeune, Marilys Nepomechie and
Allan Shulman
Oct 15 Nov 27
Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses,
SOA Gallery
Feb 12 March 12
Plazas, Entrances & Monuments of
Coral Gables, Student Work, SOA
Gallery
Jan 15 Feb 7
Ildefons Cerda (1815-1876), The
Visionary Urban Planner, SOA Gallery
Feb 13 March 7
The School of Architecture At Work:
Student Projects, SOA Gallery
Oct 15
Christopher Domin and Joseph King,
“Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses”
March 19 April 18
Images of Cuba, SOA Gallery
Oct 14
Samina Quraeshi, “The Living
Traditions of Coconut Grove: Work of
the University of Miami Initiative for
Urban and Social Ecology (INUSE)”
Oct 9
David M. Schwarz, “The Origins of
Style”
Oct 29
Giuliana Bruno, “Atlas of Emotion:
Journeys In Art, Architecture, and
Film”
Nov 7
Michael Kwartler, “Getting Comfortable
with Complexity and Uncertainty: JustIn-Time Planning”
Jan 29
Symposia
Sept 12
Oct 4-6
Ramon Trias, “Ildefons Cerda,
Barcelona and Gaudi: When Urbanism
Was New”
“Building & Community: The Natural,
Built and Policy Environment,”
presented by the School of
Architecture at the Coral Gables Youth
Center
“Civic Art 2002: A Symposium on the
Art of Town Planning,” presented by
the Knight Program in Community
Building and the School of
Architecture, The Wolfsonian–FIU
Feb 19
Dino Marcantonio, “The Architecture of
Simplicity”
FALL 2003 – SPRING 2004
Feb 26
Catherine Lynn, “An Age of Surfaces:
Late 19th Century Ornament and
Modern Design Theory”
Lectures
Sept 24
David Watkin, “Leo Von Klenze (17841864), City Planner and Visionary
Architect: Romantic Classicism in
Munich, Athens and St. Petersburg”
Oct 21
March 18
March 19
April 22
April 26
April 29
Charles Bohl, “Place Making:
Developing Town Centers, Main
Streets and Transit Villages”
Walter Chatham, “Traditional Towns,
Modern Architecture”
Aristides Millas and Ellen Ugucionni,
Coral Gables, Miami Riviera book signing
Nov 5
Cesar Pelli “Recent Preoccupations”
Nov 10
Bernard Khoury, “Recent Work”
March 15 - 28 Cruelty and Utopia – Cities and
Landscapes of Latin America, Florida
International University School of
Architecture Gallery
June 25 23
The Florida Home: Modern Living Jan
1945-1965, Historical Museum of
Southern Florida
ARTS CENTER
Symposium
March 22 - 23 “Place Making and Community
Building,” presented by the Knight
Program in Community Building
FALL 2004
Lectures
Sept 3
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andres
Duany, “Civic Art”
Sept 8
Constantine Michaelides, “The Aegean
Crucible: Tracing Vernacular
Architecture in Post-Byzantine
Centuries”
Sept 23
Carie Penabad, “Marion Manley: 18931984, Florida’s Pioneer Woman
Architect”
Sept 23
Jean-Francois Lejeune and Allan
Shulman, “Remembering the Modern
Houses of Postwar South Florida”
(panel discussion)
Sept 29
Michael McNamara, “Angioli Mazzoni:
Architecture in Motion”
Oct 6
Jean-Francois Lejeune “The
Constructed Metaphysics: Italian New
Towns of the 1930s”
Laurinda Spear, “Recent Work”
Felton Earls, M.D., “Science,
Citizenship and Urban Development: All
from the Perspective of the Child”
Feb 18
Jorge Hernandez, “Recent Work”
Feb 25
Steven Peterson and Barbara
Littenberg, “A New York Vision by
Architects Peterson & Littenberg”
Andres Duany, The New Civic Art:
Elements of Town Planning, book lecture
March 3
Katherine Wentworth Rinne, “Walking
on Water in Rome”
Oct 14
Leon Krier, “Designing with the Odds”
Jean-Francois Lejeune, “The Modern
House in Film, 1945-1965”
April 7
Wolfgang Voigt, “Beauty is Based on
Order: Paul Schmitthenner 1884-1972”
Nov 17
Freidrich St. Florian, “Designing the
WWII Memorial”
Nov 18
Allan Shulman, “Postwar Influences on
Contemporary House Design” (panel
discussion)
Hometown Maps Exhibition,
SOA Gallery
Aug 26 Sept 6
Oct 6 Nov 6
Coral Gables: Miami Riviera,
SOA Gallery
Shanghai City Studio Drawings,
SOA Gallery
OVATION FOR THE
NEW PERFORMING
Lynden B. Miller, “Making Magic in the
City: Parks, Plants and People”
Sept 22 Sept 30
A STANDING
Interdisciplinary Community Building:
The Knight Program, SOA Gallery
Jan 20
Exhibitions
Aug 25 Open City Studio Exhibition, Lisbon: A
Sept 15
Pictorial Biography, SOA Gallery
The Florida Home: Modern Living, 1945-1965
Professors Jean-Francois Lejeune and
Allan Shulman were guest curators for this
exhibition at the Historical Museum of Southern
Florida from June 25, 2004 – January 23, 2005.
The exhibition focused on domestic architecture
in Florida in the post-World War II period. It
featured a reconstructed postwar Florida home
complete with interactive rooms that visitors
move through to get a sense of how people lived
in their homes 50 years ago. In addition to an
analysis of the house and interior design, the exhibition studied images of
the Florida home in
popular magazines and
television programming.
The exhibition also presented a wide range of
architectural drawings,
maps, photographs, furniture and appliances.
March 22 April 16
Nov 20
Exhibitions
Aug 17 The Living Traditions of Coconut Grove:
Nov 3
Work of the University of Miami
Initiative for Urban and Social Ecology
(INUSE), Lowe Art Museum
(Seville), Museo de America (Madrid), Museum of
Modern Art of Mexico City, the Barragan Foundation, the Casa Lucio Costa, UM’s Richter Library
and others. Of particular interest was the parallel
presentation of original works by some of the
most significant architects and artists of the
modern period: Barragan, O’Gormman, Villanueva,
Burle Marx and Lina Bo Bardi. The original
scenography was by Professor Roberto Behar and
Rosario Marquardt, who also created the
installation on the building’s façade, “The Mask.”
An accompanying 270-page exhibition catalogue
was published and is available in French and
English at CIVA Editions (www.civa.be).
Exhibition
Aug 23 Oct 1
Angiolio Mazzoni: Italian Railway and
Postal Building Architecture 19281943, SOA Gallery
Twenty diehard music and architecture fans
joined students, Dean Plater-Zyberk and Roberto
Espejo, project architect for Cesar Pelli &
Associates, in a walk-through of the Performing
Arts Center building in downtown Miami on
September 5, 2003. A downpour did little to
dampen the group’s enthusiasm.
The tour started in the architects’ offices
next door to the site with an account of the
designer selection process. Continuing on site,
the tour proceeded through the symphony hall,
ballet and opera house, and studio theater. The
discussion included a thorough review of design
and implementation processes and issues.
Standing in the framed but still unfinished space
of the symphony hall led one participant to note
that “these buildings will have the power to
change our city.” SOA alumnus Shannon Crowel
(BARCH ’95), owner’s representative for MiamiDade County, joined Espejo in describing the
construction complexities.
Roberto Espejo leads a tour of the Performing Arts
Center building.
TEACHING
URBANISM
Detail from Urban Analysis of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Sun and Moon Bridge Street Architecture, Scott Baker, Michael Moeller, and Christopher Zappas. New Urban Studio, Spring 2003, Professors Jaime Correa and Oscar Machado.
“There is a debate between some who think architecture is a science and
others who think it is an art. In fact, we think it should be both.”
— Jaime Correa, Director of Suburb and Town Design Program
Why are some of our urban areas vibrant and
successful communities, while others are desolate
and frightening places? How can deteriorated areas
be changed? These questions are vital concerns
at the School of Architecture, widely known for
its focus on community building. At a time when
architecture education can be called to task for
its marginal and esoteric focus, the University of
Miami program emphasizes the central role of the
architect in society, charged with the responsibility and privilege of designing useful and
beautiful places.
Frank Lloyd Wright visited Miami only
once, in 1955, and presciently criticized the city’s
development, calling its subdivisions “little pigeonholes,” and saying the skyscrapers downtown had
“no feeling, no richness, no sense of this region.”
He commented on the beauty and charm of South
Florida’s natural ambiance. “You have all these marvelous natural resources, and did you go to school
to learn what to do with them? You didn’t. And
why didn’t you? There’s no such school to go to.”
Almost 50 years later, the University of
Miami School of Architecture is such a school. Its
unique approach to studying urbanism involves a
holistic, in-depth exploration of place. Says
Jaime Correa, director of the School of Architecture’s Suburb and Town Design Program,
“There is a debate between some who think
architecture is a science, and others who think it
is an art. In fact, we think it should be both.”
Students learn about neighborhoods by
photographing, mapping and drawing, measuring
and diagramming physical building blocks of the
community such as the width of sidewalks and
streets, the setbacks and heights of buildings,
the design of facades and signage, and other
elements. In addition to learning how to organize
neighborhoods and to catalog building types,
students are invited to broaden their perspective
in the study of regions in terms of history, ecology
and sociology. Says Dean Plater-Zyberk, “The
methods of observation, analysis and design our
students learn are applicable everywhere.”
Curriculum
The School’s commitment to the study of
urbanism is evidenced throughout the curriculum,
beginning with the first year, fall semester studio,
in which students study their hometowns. First
year students present and discuss photos, maps
and historic images of their towns. They then
conduct research and develop a drawing that
represents their understanding of their hometown. Topics studied in subsequent studios
include the relationship of architecture to the
natural environment, the role of structure in
building materials and the design of neighborhoods and civic buildings. In 2003 the New
Urbanism Studio was introduced for upper-level
undergraduate and graduate students. “The
studio teaches urban design and the implementation of architectural projects running
parallel with urbanism, at many scales,” explains
Oscar Machado, who currently co-teaches the
studio with Jaime Correa. The School’s postprofessional Master of Architecture degree in
Suburb and Town Design offers students an
intensive immersion in the study of urbanism and
the exploration of alternatives to modern patterns
of urban growth. The Knight Program in Community Building, a mid-career program, fosters an
interdisciplinary approach to the challenges of
community building, while the School’s Center for
Urban and Community Design provides students
with the opportunity to apply their skills to Miami
communities such as West Coconut Grove, where
students are currently working on a multi-year,
multi-disciplinary project to address the many
challenges facing this small urban neighborhood.
Miami/Havana, Miguel Angel Enriquez. First Year Studio, Fall 2003, Professor Carie Penabad, coordinator.
The New Urbanism
Urbanism as it is researched and practiced at the
School of Architecture is closely tied to the New
Urbanism, a contemporary movement that seeks
to reform the design and building of cities. The
New Urbanism looks to traditions discarded after
World War II to recover patterns of walkability
and mixed use that were set aside as suburbs
exploded across the post-war landscape. Instead
of consigning businesses to one zone, housing to
another and open spaces to another, the New
Urbanism seeks to reintegrate these essential
functions of the city and to reduce dependence
on vehicular mobility.
The New Urbanism integrates into its
historicist and aesthetic paradigms a sociological
component, the notion that architecture and public
space should promote the civic good and provide
common benefit. By structuring public spaces
with appropriate dimensions and relationships, the
movement argues, it is possible to foster connectivity and interdependence among residents and,
thereby, to improve the overall well-being of
communities and individuals. Indeed, a tenet of the
New Urbanism is that a poorly designed community promotes social isolation.
Theory and Practice
The New Urbanism has flourished with the help
of a number of high profile successes. The town
plan for Seaside, Florida, recognized with multiple
awards, including a “Best of the Decade” design
award from Time magazine in 1991, was designed
by several School of Architecture faculty and
alumni under the leadership of Dean PlaterZyberk’s partner Andrés Duany. Professors Luis
and Jorge Trelles, Teofilo Victoria and Douglas
Duany were among the small team that gathered
in a tent in the Florida panhandle to produce the
town plan and code that started a national
movement. Two decades later, with Seaside as
one of its showpieces, the New Urbanism was
institutionalized with the 1994 creation of its
“Charter of the New Urbanism,” signed by
hundreds of people from many walks of life. A
copy of the charter and its signatures, including
those of School faculty, hangs near the entrance
to the School.
In existing urban areas or suburbs, the
methodology of the New Urbanism involves a
range of intellectual endeavors, from historical
design research to careful crafting of legal documents such as zoning codes and town charters.
Lot sizes, building heights, road widths, facade
designs and a myriad of other details that shape
the feel and functions of a neighborhood are often
enshrined in such codes, and any substantive
changes have to begin there. For instance, if a
city requires parking to be placed in front of
buildings and the architect thinks that arrangement has a negative impact on pedestrians, she
first has to work to change the code before she
can create the alternative.
It is through creating these alternatives –
studying what works and what doesn’t, and then
advocating for what works – that the places we
live in will become better places. The School
teaches that the architect must take on the role
of advocate. Good urban design is not created in
personal isolation, but grows out of exploring the
HISTORY AND
CITY MAKING
If architecture is city making, what makes
one able to make good cities? “The
pedagogy should include history and
drawing,” says Plater-Zyberk, “as building
on the past is what professions do. And
architecture has a particularly rich heritage. Unlike much of the profession and
most architecture schools, we don’t treat
history as artifact or some necessary
knowledge that you don’t use. We think
history is alive in architecture.”
The UMSoA program is built on the belief
that particularly in city making, the clean
slate theory is not the right approach. In
fact, it might well be unrealistic even as a
concept. “Culture and civilization are about
innumerable efforts layered over time,” is
Plater-Zyberk’s main point. But she also
will not short-change intuition and invention. “Designers make the intuitive leaps
that scientists wait to justify. But one has
to understand that intuition is not a clean
slate. It is full of things that have landed
in the subconscious – what surrounds
you; whatever happens to have passed
by your vision. One must balance this with
intentional knowledge including the
knowledge of excellence achieved in our
history. After all, we are on the other side
of the age of enlightenment.”
– excerpted from the article “Teaching City
Making” by Kathleen Randall, published
in Traditional Building in March/April 2004
fabric of and interacting with communities. Urbanism, as taught at the School of Architecture,
spans the gap between the individual and the
collective, the private and the public. It challenges architects to promote the common good
while expressing their own creativity in order to
produce communities that help people to live and
work in a satisfying and inspiring context.
URBANISM: A PORTFOLIO
Oodi, Botswana, Gorata B. Madigele. MARCH Thesis, Spring 2003.
Matheson Hammock Park & Marina & R. Hardy Matheson Preserve, Jacob Dunaylzan, Marcela Gamarra and Juan Sebastian Munoz. Upper Level Studio, Fall 2004, Professor Rocco Ceo.
Magnolia Master Plan, Florence Cave,
Krista Kasprzyk, Carolina Moscoso and Janet Rumble. New Urban Studio, Spring 2003, Professors Jaime Correa and Oscar Machado.
New York Stock Exchange, Justin Ford. MARCH Thesis, Spring 2003.
Figure ground documentation of Forest Hills Gardens, NY, Carolina Arias-Smith.
Suburb and Town Design Studio, Fall 2002, Professor Jaime Correa.
Composite analysis of Philadelphia, Leslye Howerton, Judith Ismachowiez Soskin, Moushumi Mandal and
Carmen Rosa Rivera. Suburb and Town Design Studio, Fall 2003, Professor Jaime Correa.
Figure ground documentation of plan for Berlin, Christina Miller and Lucas
Trunnell. Suburb and Town Design Studio, Summer 2004, Professor JeanFrancois Lejeune.
Perspective of plan for Berlin, Judith Ismachowiez Soskin and Veruska Vasconez. Suburb and Town Design Studio, Summer 2004,
Professor Jean-Francois Lejeune.
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TALKING ABOUT URBANISM WITH VICTOR DOVER AND JOSEPH KOHL
Victor Dover
Joseph Kohl
The crisis arose when they realized that when
your two givens are the automobile and low
density, it’s not going to be possible to escape
perpetual traffic congestion. When congestion
started to appear, engineers thought that they
could get it flowing again by building more roads.
But then, after a bit, they realized they were
simply building their way into new problems. At
the same time, people living in suburbs began to
recognize that something was seriously wrong,
not just because of all the time they spent sitting
in traffic – and getting angry about it – but also
because of the dispiriting and boredom-inducing
environment that they were living in. People
want something more satisfying in terms of a
human habitat.
history, you see that people frequently recognize
the downside of change after it happens, and realize that the new isn’t as good as what was there.
But in the 1970s there started to be a critical
mass of people who came to this realization.
Q: Since the 19th century, the suburb has
been marketed to the middle class as something it should aspire to. Has it been sold a bill
of goods?
V: We’re not suggesting that suburbs
should go away. And, of course, “suburb” hasn’t
always been a pejorative term. Suburbs have a
great and glorious history in Europe and the U.S.
But older suburbs were planned by a different set
of rules than modern suburbs. Take Country Club
Estates in Kansas City. When it was built, all the
Storm clouds gather over Coral Gables one
afternoon in June. Earlier rains have left lake-size
puddles in front of the yellow building housing the
offices of the town planning firm Dover,
Kohl & Partners. Upstairs, Joseph Kohl
introduces Victor Dover, saying, “He’s the
one with the white shirt and glasses.”
Kohl, himself bespectacled, wears a redand-white-striped Oxford cloth shirt, and
sits at a table in a conference room that
also doubles as a lunch spot. Large color
renderings of plans for downtown Kendall,
Florida and the Jupiter Waterfront Quarter
further up the coast are propped on ledges,
and an enormous map of Lake Okeechobee
and environs leans against a wall. Here
and there sit unpacked boxes.
Victor and Joe founded the firm
that became Dover, Kohl & Partners in
1987. They both received BARCH degrees
from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and then
graduated from the School of Architecture’s Suburb and Town Design Program in
1990. They know each other so well, they Jupiter Waterfront Quarter, view from US Highway 1. Courtesy Dover Kohl & Partners.
complete each other’s sentences. In its early
work, Dover, Kohl & Partners focused on
J: There’s another aspect to the crisis,
computer imaging. Since then the practice has
streets were planted with trees. No one at the
too, having to do with the loss of natural habitat.
evolved to be one of the most prominent New
time would have expected that it would be
If you look at the Lake Okeechobee area – that’s
Urbanist firms in the U.S. The firm’s projects are
otherwise. These were streetcar suburbs. They
a map of it there against the wall – and look,
located in states across the country, including
were more motor friendly than cities, but the
there’s almost nowhere people haven’t touched.
Colorado, Tennessee, Virginia and South Caroplanners didn’t intend that everyone living in
You can see the lake from space! It’s enormous.
lina, in addition to many projects in Florida.
them would have cars. We firmly believe that
We’ve flown over the entire area, about 2500
Dover, Kohl’s Hometown Plan for its own
restoring our inner-ring suburbs should be a
square miles. It’s primarily rural –
immediate environs has brought outdoor eating
priority, and we’re doing that, for instance, in
V: Yet it’s amazing that virtually the entire
and foot traffic back to South Miami streets that
downtown Kendall.
footprint has been impacted by humans!
were for years little more than shortcuts for
J: It’s about choice. People decide where
J: In some sense, when we talk about
drivers trying to shave time off their commutes. A
to live for any number of reasons, not just the
urbanism, we’re talking about a kind of biomaster plan for downtown Kendall, developed in
quality of schools, which has typically been a
diversity of the built environment. If you watch
conjunction with Duany, Plater-Zyberk & Co., has
prime consideration. Even people with children
science shows on something like the Discovery
begun to transform the area around Dadeland
are now looking for variety, for the fun and
Channel, you see coral reefs. Coral reefs are so
Mall from a snarl of multi-lane roads, wareexciting choice. For thousands of years, the town
fascinating because there is so much variety in
houses, sun-scoured parking lots and highrises
has been the natural human habitat.
them, so many different kinds of creatures and so
into a greener, more pedestrian-friendly, mixedV: If you look at historical documents, like
many different sorts of “abodes.” In the same
use neighborhood. Similar plans would recapture
fire insurance maps from the nineteenth century, you
way, we need strong variety in our cities. A city
a blighted stretch of U.S. 1 in downtown Miami
can see patterns. There were things that city builders
that is homogeneous is a city that isn’t healthy.
and, in a separate project, 15 miles of the historic
knew worked, things they did over and over again.
V: Biologists know that monocultures are
highway as it runs through Palm Beach County.
But after World War II, the old instincts atrophied.
ecologically unsustainable.
J: It was when disposable became okay,
J: When you think of it in terms of
QUESTION: Victor, you have said in your
when throwing things away became a virtue.
economics, if everything in a neighborhood is the
talk “Retrofitting Suburbia” (see www.dover
V: The number one rule that was forgotsame – you have all highrises or all homes or all
kohl.com/writings.html) that “the perpetual outten was what I call the “fronts and backs” rule.
retail – it’s less viable.
ward sprawl is at or beyond crisis point.” Could
The idea that the front of a building would have a
V: The key word, I think, is “brittle.” When
you talk a little bit about that?
front door, a public welcome and a relationship
you think of a healthy person, you think of a person
Victor: Well, actually, I wrote that a while
with the streetscape that was positive.
who is supple or adaptable. We create towns
back, and I’d say the crisis point occurred about
J: A good lab where you can see this is
that are flexible, that age gracefully and densify in
10 years ago. Our country was effectively
Miami Shores, where there are alleys behind
an orderly fashion. Rational urbanism is flexible.
running a giant experiment that began at the turn
some houses. The sections of Miami Shores where
of the 20th century but sped up after World War II.
the houses have rear access for automobiles
Q: Hasn’t there been resistance to the
through the alleys are invariably far more appealThe experiment was implemented on a continentconcept of urban planning in recent history?
ing and livable than those where the access for
wide basis without any field testing. It’s amazing
V: Not that long ago, anyone who thought
the cars is in the front.
that anyone bought the notion of abandoning the
he had a sensible, dependable set of rules for
V: It comes down to whether you respect
cities wholesale for the suburbs, but when you
building towns seemed suspect. The notion was
public space or disrespect it. If we recover nothconsider the difficult conditions of cities then,
that nothing could be used again, even if it had
ing else, I hope we recognize the importance of
with crowding and sanitation issues, you can see
been demonstrated to work. Everything had to be
respecting fronts and backs. In downtown Kendall,
that the experiment was bound to occur. People
new. So, planners lost the ability to defend their
for example, where we wrote the code with
wanted to try it, they were bursting to try it.
own doctrine, and that’s part of why architects
Duany Plater-Zyberk, the bedrock approach was
Lewis Mumford and others said it wouldn’t work.
got out of planning. Too, architects as a species
that there must be habitable space facing the
But people did it anyway. It uncoiled like a spring.
are hesitant to acknowledge that repeatable rules
street, not the backs of warehouses.
Joe: Housing and the automobile helped
will produce dependable results.
J: And this code is having a spillover in
pull the country out of the Depression.
J: Well, I think that all along, planners
Miami, where people are saying, “If the county
V: Yes, and then after World War II, no
and architects knew the nature of planning, and
can do this, why can’t we?”
one was willing to question the experiment. There
that it would work. But it took people getting fed
was too much need for housing. But now one can
up; it took them recognizing that what they were
Q: Not long ago, in the New York Times
declare the experiment complete enough to decide
getting in the suburbs was worse than what they
Magazine, Arthur Lubow talked about the “smallwhether it worked. And the answer is clear: It didn’t.
had before. They thought, well, maybe we need
town nostalgists of New Urbanism,” and effecMost adult Americans grew up in the
to plan. This recognition isn’t new. If you read
tively dismissed the movement. Your response?
final years of the Golden Age of the automobile.
J: It’s generally architects who have a problem with our work. People who live in communities
designed according to New Urbanism love them!
V: New Urbanism says we can tell the
difference between right and wrong. And some
architects don’t like that. New Urbanism says
you can find models and patterns that are better
than others. There’s a fear of place making among
some architects. There’s a suspicion of our claim
that there are rules that work. But we’re not
saying you must control everything. It’s not some
sort of fascism. What we are saying is that there
are certain commonalities among livable spaces
that work.
J: We also pay attention to the ingredients that make up an effective building. A building isn’t just a shell, it’s part of a community. Older towns have evolved over time;
they’re made up of layers. When we sit
down to draw a new community, we do it
with an eye to that sort of evolution. We
draw it as if it has evolved.
V: And we realize that once it’s
built, it’s going to continue evolving, growing and responding to historical circumstances.
J: When we think about a town,
we think of it in context, as part of a continuum that spans from rural countryside
to the urban core.
V: If the idea is that we’re like
some character in a Frank Capra movie by
saying that we think it’s a good idea, in
designing a town, to allow someone to
walk on streets with shade trees and
buildings that have inviting fronts, well, so
be it. Because it turns out that if you create
towns that are tranquil and have all these
features, they are runaway successes.
They absolutely dominate the market. Is there a
second coming of the Great American small town
as a result of New Urbanism? I would say, yes!
Q: What do you see happening with
New Urbanism in the coming decades?
V: Initially, New Urbanism had to work in
remote regions like the Florida panhandle, where
it was possible to put new ideas in place without getting quashed by zoning boards and so
forth. In effect, in an attempt to deal with
runaway growth, a lot of cities and regions had
written rules and regulations that actually made
it difficult to build great urban systems or livable
towns.
Now that we’re more mainstream, some
of the basic tenets of New Urbanism are actually
embedded in planning policies, and some of our
practices, such as charrettes, are becoming part
of the expected routine. You could say some of
the concepts have also become embedded in the
minds of city officials, who now talk about walkability and mixed uses with conviction.
And I think what you’re going to see is
New Urbanists taking on suburban greyfields, that
is, the first generation shopping centers, many of
which have been driven out of business by regional malls. There’s a great opportunity now to go back
into those under-performing areas and turn them
into something new.
J: We see whole corridors being transformed, like our plan for U.S. 1 in Palm Beach
County.
V: In the coming decades, our country is
going to have to absorb tens of millions of new
immigrants – that’s where much of the population growth is coming from. Where are we going
to put them all? We think a good answer is that
we can turn whole corridors into grand boulevards where people will want to live.
J: People are feeling alienated. After the
atrocity of September 11, they have a craving to
belong; they want, socially, to get along. The sorts
of communities we build foster a sense of belonging. People go out on the porch to pick up their
papers in the morning, or they walk to the neighborhood café, and they feel a bond.
V: We practice a public art, not the
private act of smearing oil on canvas. And we take
that public responsibility seriously.
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KNIGHT PROGRAM COMPLETES THREE YEARS, RECEIVES NEW FUNDING
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk speaking at the Coatesville
charrette, November 2003.
Suburb and Town Design students Leslye Howerton
(Knight Scholar ’03) and Hao He at the Coatesville
charrette, November 2003.
The Knight Program in Community Building
completed its first three years of activities in
March 2004. During the same month, the program was awarded a $1.1 million, three-year
challenge grant from the John S. and James L.
Knight Foundation, which will enable the program
to continue and to expand its activities, initially
funded by the foundation three years ago.
“The Knight Foundation grant is a big
vote of confidence in the impact that the Knight
Program in Community Building has had on the
mid-career fellows, graduate students and communities we have worked with over the first
three years of the program,” says Charles C. Bohl,
director of the Knight Program. “It’s also a recognition that community building is an area of
national importance that is not being taught as
part of professional degree programs and that the
need for education in this area will continue to
grow in the years ahead.”
The Knight Program has launched and
refined a unique interdisciplinary approach to community building aimed at breaking down barriers
between professions engaged in creating livable
communities. Each year the program awards
fellowships to 12 mid-career professionals, conducts
a charrette, holds seminars, courses and symposia, and sponsors and produces publications.
In its first three years the Knight Program:
• Awarded 37 Fellowships and provided
scholarships for 15 graduate students
• Supported 24 seminars, symposia,
workshops and courses in community building
• Staged three full-scale charrettes in
Macon, GA; San Jose, CA; and Coatesville, PA
• Supported three national symposia and
five councils on community building topics
• Organized local case studies and study
tours for Knight Fellows
• Supported the launch of both the New
Urban Post and the Council Report
• Supported the research initiatives of 37
Knight Program Fellows
• Provided editorial and/or financial
support for a number of book projects
The program’s three-year anniversary was
marked by a national symposium entitled Place
Making and Community Building held on March 2223 in Coral Gables and by an exhibition providing an
overview of the program on view at the School of
Architecture gallery March 21–April 21.
The well-attended symposium featured
nationally renowned experts involved in community building including Hodding Carter, III,
president and CEO of the Knight Foundation;
Donna Shalala, president of the University of
Miami; Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, dean of the
University of Miami School of Architecture;
Charles C. Bohl; Tony Goldman, CEO, Goldman
Properties; J. Walker Smith, president of Yakelovich Partners; Douglas S. Kelbaugh, dean of
Taubman College of Architecture & Planning,
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Neal Pierce,
journalist and author of Citistates; Mac Nichols,
National Trust for Historic Preservation; Beth
Dunlop, architecture critic; Daniella Levine, Miami
Prosperity Initiative; and several Knight Fellows.
In addition to continuing to develop the
components of the program established in the
first three years, during its next phase the Knight
Program will also concentrate on executive education offerings leading to certificates and
advanced degrees in the areas of community
building/New Urbanism, real estate development
and community design (see “Knight Program to
Offer Certificate in Real Estate Development”).
“The program’s first three years have
been incredibly gratifying,” says Bohl. “One of the
program’s major objectives is to bring together
professionals from diverse fields and encourage
them to share their knowledge and resources.
The program has more than met this goal – we
have Fellows who call on each other for advice on
a regular basis.”
ORDER KNIGHT PROGRAM PUBLICATIONS
Council Reports – $17 each / $25 for
Council Report III/IV
• Council Report I: Features New Urbanist
greenfield towns
• Council Report II: Focuses on infill
projects by leading New Urbanist firms
• Council Report III/IV: This combined issue
focuses on the relation of style to urbanism
(Council Report III) and New Urban codes
(Council Report IV)
•Council Report VI: Focuses on retail
New Urban Post – $5 each
• II: On Gentrification
• IV: New Urbanism Timeline
• V: On Modernism
• VI: On Public Process
• VII: On Street Networks
• VIII: On Retail
• IX: On the Transect
• X: On Affordable Housing
To order: Send name, address, phone and
e-mail with a check or money order payable
to the University of Miami to Knight
Program, School of Architecture, University
of Miami, P.O. Box 249178, Coral Gables, FL
33124-5010. For questions e-mail knight@
arc.miami.edu or call 305.284.4420.
KNIGHT PROGRAM TO OFFER CERTIFICATE
IN REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT
On November 8-9, 2004 the Knight
Program offered its second executive
education course, Market Analysis and
Marketing for Real Estate Development,
followed on January 6-8, 2005 with
Introduction to Finance for Real Estate
Development. The courses are part of a
series of classes in real estate
development that will be offered by the
Knight Program as part of its Certificate in
Real Estate Development, a professional
development program designed to
promote successful practice in and with
the real estate industry and to enhance the
quality of the built environment. This
interdisciplinary program provides professionals and university students with the
opportunity to deepen and refine existing
skills, develop new abilities and acquire
the expertise needed to meet the evolving
challenges of today’s real estate industry.
The curriculum integrates fundamental material from the real estate
industry with New Urbanist and Smart
Growth concepts. Participants earn a
certificate by completing six courses
within a three-year period. The curriculum
is taught by noted academics, real estate
industry experts, and leaders in the fields
of New Urbanism and Smart Growth. The
intensive nature of the courses (most are
offered in a two- or three-day symposium
format) provides a lively forum for
exchanging ideas and networking with
peers and faculty.
Most of the courses take place at
the University of Miami Coral Gables
campus. Continuing education credits for
a variety of professions are available,
including architecture. For more information and a schedule of future courses, see
the Knight Program website at www.
arc.miami.edu/knight.
CUCD OVERSEES EFFORTS IN WEST COCONUT GROVE
The outreach work in West Coconut Grove spearheaded by the School’s Center for Urban and
Community Design (CUCD) was honored with an
award from the National Council of Architectural
Registration Boards (NCARB). The $7,500 2004
NCARB award recognizes excellence and innovation in bringing together architectural education
and practice.
Since 1999 the CUCD has overseen an
interdisciplinary University-community outreach
program in West Coconut Grove that has brought
together students and faculty members from six
different University departments and schools to
work on research, education and community
building in this distressed neighborhood. To date,
approximately 270 students and 40 faculty members have taken part in the program, under the
supervision of Samina Quraeshi, the Henry R.
Luce Professor in Family and Community and
Richard Shepard, director of the CUCD.
“West Coconut Grove is a community
facing challenges both to its built environment and
sociological environment – cultural disinvestment
is a major problem in the community,” notes
Professor Quraeshi. “In our work with West
Coconut Grove we have seen, time and again, that
the physical and mental health of the community
are completely intertwined. The University outreach has afforded students and faculty from a
range of disciplines the opportunity to apply their
knowledge to a community facing serious challenges. Bringing our expertise to a nearby community is part of our responsibility as an institute of
higher learning and as a good neighbor.”
West Coconut Grove is a half-mile-square
Reviewing plans for student-designed homes for
West Coconut Grove.
community and has a population of almost 3,000
predominantly African American residents, with
an average family income below the poverty line.
It is one of Miami’s founding neighborhoods,
boasting sixth- and seventh-generation descendants of the first Bahamian settlers. Its neighbors
represent some of the most upscale communities
in Miami-Dade County, but so far this historic
enclave has been protected from gentrification by
the density and stability of its ethnic population
and by its crime rate.
Activities organized by the CUCD in West
Coconut Grove have ranged from building studentdesigned homes to creating public art. Architecture
students have designed homes and, in three cases,
seen those designs become or begin to become a
reality. Law students have run business and family
workshops, done vacant lot studies, developed antigentrification programs and drafted a structure for
a real-estate land trust. Charrettes and discussions
have spurred community members to envision a
restructured main street with wide sidewalks and
a landscaped median and have encouraged abutting property owners to form partnerships to
control their future.
Groups of students and faculty within the
University involved in this initiative include the
School of Architecture (undergraduate and graduate
students and faculty), CITYZENS (a community
outreach organization formed by architecture
students), the Law School, the Medical School, the
School of Communication, and the departments of
History, Art and Art History.
Highlights of the CUCD’s activities and
accomplishments in West Coconut Grove include:
• Multiple charrettes that involve students and faculty members on the design team
• Design of affordable homes in architecture studios and work with local real estate
developers to build those homes, with students
involved in every step of the process
• Work with the city to establish a new
zoning code for the neighborhood to preserve the
community character
• Work with community leaders to establish a community-run collaborative
• Collaboration between University departments involved in the program
• A book that contains essays on the
history and present conditions of the community
and includes contributions from all University
courses involved in the program
• An exhibition at the Lowe Museum on
the history, current state and future possibilities for
the community, showcasing the interdisciplinary
Student design drawing of affordable house for
West Coconut Grove.
work produced by the University and the community, and attracting a substantial attend- ance
from the community.
“It’s been wonderful for the University to
be involved with a community over such an
extended period of time,” notes Richard Shepard,
director of the CUCD. “In addition to the concrete
ways in which we’ve contributed to West Coconut
Grove, we have observed that the University’s
interest in the community has helped the residents
to gain an appreciation of their community, its
unique history and its architectural heritage. It’s
been a collaborative experience all around – with
faculty and students, with different University
departments, with the citizens of West Coconut
Grove and with the government and philanthropic
agencies that have supported our work.”
In addition to its efforts in West Coconut
Grove, the CUCD has been assisting local
municipalities with neighborhood design workshops, or charrettes. Faculty and students have
been involved in workshops in Miami Springs, Buena
Vista, South Miami and Biscayne Park. Currently
the CUCD is working on a mixed-use project
design in the Overtown neighborhood of Miami.
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FA C U LT Y N O T E S
Collaborating artists Roberto Behar and Rosario
Marquardt were co-named “Best Local Artist” by
the Miami New Times in May 2004. Roberto and
Rosario created the scenography and an outdoor
installation on the building’s façade for the
exhibition Cruelty and Utopia: Cities and
Landscapes of Latin America curated by JeanFrançois Lejeune. The exhibition was on view at
Brussels’ International Center for the City,
Architecture and Landscape during 2004. The
artists’ work was featured in the exhibition A
Place in the World, on view at the Miami Art
Museum from February 28 – June 22, 2003.
During November 2002, the University of Miami
campus was the site of several of the artists’
outdoor installations, titled The sky above us, part
of the program “New Gallery without Walls.”
Since the publication of Charles C. Bohl’s book
Place Making: Developing Town Centers, Main
Streets, and Urban Villages (see “Faculty Books”),
the director of the Knight Program in Community
Building has presented more than two dozen
lectures on topics related to the book’s themes at
national and international conferences, including
lectures in Stockholm, Sweden and Bruges,
Belgium. In Spring 2004 Professor Bohl was corecipient of an Innovative Teaching Grant for InterSchool College Courses by the University of
Miami Provost’s office. The $10,000 grant,
awarded to Professor Bohl and Andrea Heuson, a
finance professor in the Business School, will be
used to refine and promote the Introduction to
Real Estate Finance seminar that the two first
collaborated on in 2004.
Greg Castillo returned to the School of
Architecture for the Fall 2003 semester after
completing a year-long J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral
Fellowship, during which he worked on his book
Constructing the Cold War: Architecture and the
Cultural Division of Germany, 1947-1957, to be
published by the MIT Press. Professor Castillo’s
book examines the ways in which the U.S. and
the Soviet Union mobilized architecture and urban
design as weapons in a cultural cold war, resulting in the emergence of two opposing architectural traditions in East and West Germany
over the course of a decade. Professor Castillo is
also the recipient of a Fulbright Grant to participate in the Fulbright 2004 German Studies
Seminar on “Visual Culture in Germany.” He has
recently presented lectures on his research at the
University of Toronto and at Oberlin College.
Professors Rocco Ceo and Aristides Millas at the
opening for the exhibition based on Coral Gables,
Miami Riviera: An Architectural Guide, co-authored
by Aristides Millas and Ellen Uguccioni.
Rocco Ceo was promoted to full professorship
in 2004. He received the 2003 Outstanding
Achievement award in the restoration/rehabilitation category from the Florida Trust for Historic
Preservation for his work on the Paul C. Ransom
Cottage in Coconut Grove. In addition, Professor
Ceo and Joanna Lombard received the Trust’s
2002 Outstanding Achievement award in the
preservation education/media category for their
book Historic Landscapes of Florida (University
Press of Florida, dist.).
A series of initiatives aimed at providing Cuban
architects, scholars and students with contem-
porary planning
about the community building
tools that may
efforts undertaken by the
assist in slowing
Center for Urban and Comthe loss of Cuba’s
munity Design in West
great built and urCoconut Grove. The book will
ban patrimony is
be published by The Spacenow underway,
maker Press as part of their
spearheaded by
Landmark Series.
Sonia Chao and
supported by funds
Gregory Saldaña, Rocco
from the J.M. KapCeo, Catherine Lynn and their
lan fund. Professor
students worked on a project
Chao lectured at
to recommend conservation
the Florida Trust
planning for Vizcaya Museum
for Historic Preserand Gardens during 2003 and
vation conference
2004, supported by a grant
in May 2003 on the
from the Getty Institute Grants
topics “Historic
Program and a matching
Preservation
in
grant from the Vizcaya MusThe sky above us, an outdoor installation by Professor Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt.
Cuba – Past,
eum and Gardens Trust.
Present and Future”
An Anthology of Faculty Writing, celebrating the
and “Evolution of Havana’s Urban Form.” Professor
Allan Shulman received grants from the Graham
University of Miami’s 75th anniversary. The 21
Chao was awarded a $5,000 pilot study grant by
Foundation and the State of Florida Division of
essays included in the book were selected from
MCUS (Miami Center for Urban Studies) to
Historical Resources Grants and Education Secapproximately 2,000 submissions. In addition,
facilitate initial work on a proposed exhibition
tion for the book Miami Modern: Postwar ArchiProfessor Millas received the Award for Writing
entitled The Importation of Urban Forms and their
tecture and Urbanism in the Tropics.
About Architecture from the Miami Chapter of
Cultural Imprint on Cuba. As part of her research
the American Institute of Architects in November
she will travel to the Archives of the Indies in
Vincent Scully received the 2004 National Medal
2003 for his book Coral Gables, Miami Riviera: An
Seville, Spain.
of the Arts in a ceremony hosted by First Lady
Architectural Guide, co-authored with Ellen
Laura Bush. Professor Scully was also the 2003
Uguccioni.
Correa Valle Valle, Inc., a Coral Gables firm, won the
recipient of the Urban Land Institute J.C. Nichols
First Government Land Development Competition
Prize for Visionary Urban Development. The
Carie Penabad has received three grants for
for the Jing Wei Garden site in Shanghai. Jaime
$100,000 prize recognizes a person whose career
research on the architect Marion Manley, who
Correa, director of the Suburb and Town Design
demonstrates a commitment to the highest
designed the School’s buildings in 1947 and was
Program, was a principal with the firm. Erick Valle
standards of responsible development. The
Florida’s first licensed woman architect; Pro(BARCH ’87, MARCH ’91), Estella Valle and Yukai
award ceremony took place on October 8, 2003
fessor Penabad received the Max Orovitz Grant
Hsiung (MARCH ’01) are also members of the
in New York City. Dean Plater-Zyberk particthrough the University of Miami and, in condesign team. Professor Correa has since opened his
ipated in the ceremony.
junction with Catherine Lynn, a grant from the
own firm, Jaime Correa and Associates.
State of Florida Division of Historical Resources
A group of faculty traveled to Trani, Italy to
Grants and Education Section as well as an
José Gelabert-Navia was promoted to full
lecture at The Planned City?, the biannual conferaward from the Graham Foundation for Advanced
professorship in 2003.
ence of the International Seminar on Urban Form,
Studies in the Fine Arts.
hosted by the Polytechnic of Bari in summer 2003.
Jorge L. Hernandez was awarded the job of
Adib Cure, Jean-François Lejeune, Carie PenA collaboration of faculty in practice designed the
renovating Coral Gables’ police and fire station, a
abad, and Dean Plater-Zyberk all spoke at this
Jean du Pont Shehan Visitor Center at Fairchild
WPA building designed by Phineas Paist that will
gathering of architects, urban historians, and geoTropical Garden, a $4.1 million building that archinow become the Coral Gables History Museum.
graphers, as did Galina Tahchieva (MARCH ’95).
tecture critic Beth Dunlop called “a study in the
Professor Hernandez is also working on an addikind of simplicity and refinement that yields a
tion to the Coral Gables Congregational Church,
Several faculty members were mentioned in
quiet grandeur.” Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and
originally built by George Merrick for his father in
“Miami Modern,” a survey article on the state of
Joanna Lombard had key roles in the design of
the early 1920s. He is also continuing his work as
Miami architecture written by architecture critic
the new building, as did landscape architect Gary
a member of the Miami Circle Planning Committee.
Beth Dunlop and published in the July 2003 issue
Greenan. Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt
of Architecture magazine. Included were Dean
Jan Hochstim received the Education Leadership
Plater-Zyberk, Andrés Duany, Erik Vogt, Adib
created the murals depicting a tropical landscape
Award from the Miami chapter of the American
Cure, Carie Penabad, Oscar Machado, Alison
in the building’s second-floor ballroom.
Institute of Architects in October 2002.
Spear and Allan Shulman. In addition, the March
Dean Plater-Zyberk has given numerous
2002 issue of the Viennese magazine Archirecent lectures. These include the keynote
Dr. Salem Issa of Al-Baath University in Syria
tektur.Aktuell featured several faculty members
presentations at the Third Meeting of the Council
was an international adjunct visiting research
and alumni, including Roberto Behar, Danny
for European Urbanism in Viseu, Portugal in May
scholar at the School of Architecture during Spring
Herrera, Gregory John, Jean-François Le2004, “Education of Architects and Urbanists in
2003. He researched and completed a paper entijeune, Rosario Marquardt, Nikolai Nedev and
the Age of Globalization,” and at the ULI Southtled, “The Architectural and Technical Solution for
Edgar Sarli.
east Florida/Caribbean conference in September
Building Walls from Bricks as the Final Coverage
2002. She also served as a panelist for the
Materials.”
Johnson & Johnson/Rosalynn Carter Institute
STAFF NOTES
Caregivers Program. In March 2003 Dean PlaterRichard Langendorf, Ph.D., retired from the School
Alejandro Fernandez-Veraud received the
Zyberk’s name was added to the Wall of Honor at
of Architecture in 2004. He taught in the Engineeraward for Best Florida Resident Artist from the
the Miami-Dade Women’s Park and History
ing and Architecture programs since 1972.
Paradise City Arts Festival held in Fort Lauderdale
Gallery, founded in 1992 as the first communityin January 2004.
based park in the nation honoring women. At the
Jean-François Lejeune was one of six UM
same ceremony, Jorge Hernandez received
faculty members to receive the eighth annual
Jorge Loynaz Garcia, curator and director of the
special recognition for his work in historic
Provost’s Award for Scholarly Activity, in spring
School’s Image Archive, received his master of
preservation for women’s sites and monuments.
2004. The award recognizes extraordinary rearts degree in International Security and Conflict
Dean Plater-Zyberk and Andres Duany were
search and scholarly pursuits; Professor Lejeune’s
in May 2003 from the University of Miami.
featured in AARP Magazine’s article “The
work focuses on the architectural history of cities.
Fearless 50” in the March/April 2003 issue for
María Isabel González’s work was chosen to
their work in “planning towns on a human scale.”
Oscar A. Machado is at work on a series of
be part of the exhibition Festival BAC! 2003
essays about a philosophy of architecture and
(Barcelona Contemporary Art), on view at the
Works by Samina Quraeshi, the Henry R. Luce
urbanism titled A Quarternity of Essays On
Contemporary Culture Center of Barcelona in
Professor of Family and Community, were included
Architecture and Urbanism. In addition, in his
November and December 2003.
in the exhibition FAAR OUT: Six Months in Rome,
work with the firm Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum,
on view from April 9 – May 2, 2003 at The ACD
Professor Machado has been involved in efforts
The School is pleased to welcome Manny Perez
Gallery in New York City. The exhibition showto revitalize Biscayne Boulevard between 12th
as applications specialist for information techcased the work of current and past design fellows
and 87th streets.
nology.
of the American Academy in Rome. Professor
Quraeshi’s work was also featured in Peik Larsen
Aristides Millas’ essay “Old Miami Beach: A
Edna Schwab played the role of Ofelia in Nilo
& Samina Quraeshi, an exhibition of artists’ books,
Case Study in Historic Preservation, July 1976Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play Anna in the
prints and paintings at Volume gallery in New York
July 1980” and Nicholas Patricios’ essay
Tropics during its Fall 2003 inaugural run at Coral
City in March 2004. Professor Quraeshi received a
“Architectural Styles” were selected for inclusion
Gables’ New Theatre. She also appeared in The
grant from the Dade Community Foundation/John
in the book Bold Beginnings, Bright Tomorrows:
Immaculate Man at Teatro Avante in June 2004.
S. and James L. Knight Foundation for a book
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ALUMNI NEWS
Luay Ahmed Al Saleh (BARCH ’93) is
living in Kuwait and has his own architectural
firm. A recent accomplishment is a housing
project, Luay Designed Homes, in which he
combined Kuwait’s traditional architecture with
contemporary design.
Carolina Arias-Smith (BARCH ’00,
MARCH ’03) began working at Cooper Johnson
Smith Architects in Tampa, FL in September
2003, where she works with Jason Dunham
(BARCH ’99, MARCH ’00).
Pedro Barrail (BARCH ’88, MARCH ’91)
returned to his native Paraguay in 1994 and
joined the company Baga S.A. as head architect
and director. He has been exhibiting his artwork
in galleries internationally since 1997, and has
received several awards for photography, art,
video art, and design.
Alisa Block (MARCH ’93) maintains her
own firm in Miami and teaches part time at the
School of Architecture. She gave birth to her son,
Charlie, in June 2001.
Karla Castellanos (BARCH ’98) was
named a recipient of the Rotary Peace
Scholarship in 2004. Only 70 individuals
worldwide are selected to receive the two-year
master’s level program.
William Cate (BARCH ’96) is working for
Hines on a mixed-used project in Coral Gables,
FL. He and his wife, Denise, welcomed a baby
girl, Madison Leigh, in April 2002.
David De Celis (BARCH ’94) is working
at Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects Inc. in
Boston.
Julie Anne Cecere (BARCH ’95) has an
architectural firm in New Jersey where she
specializes in residential work. She has three
small children.
Dennis K. DeWolf (BARCH ’68) has an
architectural firm in Highlands, NC, where he
employs four architects. The firm, in existence for
30 years, does both corporate and residential
work. Dennis has also been involved in efforts to
preserve historical structures in the Highlands
area. He has three grown children.
Alice Larsen Deupree (BARCH ’79) lives
in Montclair, NJ where she has an architectural
firm specializing in renovations to historic
buildings. She has an eight-year-old son.
Anne Keevan Finch (MARCH ’01) is
working for de la Guardia Victoria Architects &
Urbanists in Coral Gables, FL.
Jorge H. Garcia (BARCH ’77) is the CEO
of Garcia Brenner Stromberg, Inc., an
architecture firm in Boca Raton, FL.
Jackie D’jeann Genard (BARCH ’01) is
enrolled in the master’s program in City and
Regional Planning at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Richard Heisenbottle (BARCH ’85)
received a merit award from AIA Florida’s 2003
Design and Honors Awards Program for the
Gusman Center for the Performing Arts.
Roy Heitmann (BARCH ’77) has
established Heitmann Associates Architects in
Savannah, GA. Recent projects include designing
MRI suites for hospitals and affordable housing
for Thomasville and Cordele, GA.
Miguel L. Martinez (BARCH ’96)
completed his graduate work at Pratt Institute
and works with PQH/Vargas Architects Engineers
in Jacksonville, FL. He has worked as the project
manager for an electrical substation, a fire
station, a middle school and other projects.
Roney Mateu (BARCH ’76) received a
merit award from AIA Florida’s 2003 Design and
Honors Awards Program for Casa Gator, a
residence in Gainesville, FL.
Nathalie Tenorio Mockler (BARCH ’93)
works with Smith McCrary Architects in
Jacksonville, FL. She married Greg Mockler three
years ago.
Maria Nardi (BARCH ’91) is now the
special projects coordinator with Miami-Dade
County Parks and Recreation. She is currently
overseeing an effort for a new open-space
master plan for the county. Previously she was
chief of the Urban Design, Planning and Zoning
Department for the City of Miami. She received
an MLA in 1998 from Harvard University’s
Graduate School of Design.
Einar Olafsson (MARCH ’02) and a
colleague won a competition for a new addition
to a school in his former hometown of Isafjordur,
Iceland. He also had an exhibition of his work in
April 2002 that led to several residential
commissions. He had a daughter in May 2002.
Eric Rustan Osth, AIA (BARCH ’96)
recently moved to Pittsburgh, PA with his wife,
Katherine, and son, Parker, to manage the
architecture studio at Urban Design Associates
(UDA). Since graduating, Eric has worked at
Merrill & Pastor, architects in Vero Beach,
attended graduate school at UC Berkeley, and
was a senior urban designer at Skidmore,
Owings & Merrill LLP in San Francisco where he
directed project teams working at UC Santa Cruz,
the City of San Francisco and Shanghai, China.
Eric also worked for a year with Opticos Design
in Berkeley and was a lecturer in the Master of
Urban Design program at University of California,
Berkeley.
Julie (Napier) Overby (BARCH ’96) is
working for Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc. in
Jacksonville, FL. She works in the commercial
division, focusing on interior spaces. She has two
young children.
Thomas H. Perdue (BARCH ’67) became
the architect for the City of Savannah in 2001.
Mark T. Reeves (BARCH ’78, MARCH
’80, JD ’84) was ordained as a priest by the
Archdiocese of Miami in May 2002. He
completed his License in Canon Law at the
Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome while
residing at the Pontifical North American College
in Vatican City, where he lived and studied since
1998. He told Miami Magazine that has thought
about combining his architecture and theology
backgrounds by designing a church–“I think it
could be very interesting and quite a challenge,”
he said.
Mike Rodriguez (BARCH ’81) received
the Anthony L. Pullara Individual Honor Award
from AIA Florida’s 2003 Design and Honors
Awards Program. Mike is a part-time SOA faculty
member.
Tricia A. Russell (BARCH ’95) works in
Westfield, NJ as a senior project manager for
Clemons Construction Company.
John Salustro (BARCH ’76) and Connie
Kramer (BARCH ’78) are married and have their
own firm in New Jersey, concentrating on
residential work. They have two daughters, ages
nine and thirteen.
Miriam Tropp Spear (BARCH ’93)
received her Masters of Architecture in Urban
Design from Harvard University’s Graduate
School of Design in 1997. She worked at Bill
Rawn’s office in Boston before becoming
registered as an architect with the State of
Massachusetts in 2001. Miriam and her husband,
Steve, have three children.
Mark Thiele (BARCH ’87) has his own
architecture firm in Jacksonville, FL. He works on
a range of project types, including residences,
libraries, schools, and military installations. He
has four young children.
town planning, but
focuses on one of
the architect’s major
achievements, the
new Queen’s Gallery
at
Buckingham
Palace. The heavily
illustrated book also
includes discussions
of Simpson’s design
for the new Paternoster Square, next to St. Paul’s
Cathedral, his interiors at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and his Ashfold House, Sussex.
stantinos Doxiadis; the work of local environmental artists Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt;
and previews of the new architecture school
buildings by Bernard Tschumi for Florida International University and by Leon Krier for the University of Miami. School of Architecture authors
include Greg Castillo, Jean-François Lejeune, Cristina Mehrtens, Janet Rumble and Allan T. Shulman.
curated an exhibition on the topic that was on
view in the SOA Gallery.
IN MEMORIUM
Fernando
Belaúnde, former
president of Peru who passed away in June
2002, studied architecture at the University
of Miami in the 1930s.
Third-year student Paola Andrea
Castro passed away unexpectedly of a
heart condition while visiting her family in La
Paz, Bolivia on December 25, 2002. Her
uncle, Juan Lander, can be contacted at
2708 Atlanta Street, Silver Spring, MD
20906.
Former graduate student Essi Eliisa
Liutala passed away on February 14, 2003.
Her mother, Ritva Homin, lives at Fastastie
#14, 21530 Paimio, Finland.
Maria Araujo passed away in
January 2004 after a long illness, which did
not prevent her from receiving her BARCH
degree in May 2003. Her son, Edward
Araujo, can be contacted at 1850 NW 105
Terrace, Pembroke Pines, FL 33026.
FA C U LT Y B O O K S
Place Making: Developing Town Centers,
Main Streets, and Urban Villages (ULI, 2002)
by Charles C. Bohl, director of the Knight
Program in community Building, focuses primarily on place making in suburban areas and offers
several case studies as examples of excellent
town center and main street projects. Successful
place making in the
suburbs involves creating mixed-use, clustered
developments that provide a sense of community through a cohesive, integrated design,
according to Bohl.
Ciudad City
Jose Gelabert-Navia generously donated 4,000
copies of Ciudad City to the School of Architecture. The volume documents the art deco
architecture of Ocean Drive in a pull-out longitudinal street section with photographs of each
building as well as elevation drawings that appear
above the photographs. The book is available for
purchase through the School of Architecture; see
page 16 for publication ordering information.
John Simpson: The Queen’s Gallery
Buckingham Palace and Other Works (June
2002) by Richard John and David Watkin,
examines the work of architect John Simpson,
focusing on his key role in the revival of
traditional urbanism. The book covers a wide
range of Simpson’s work, from furniture design to
Aula 3: Miami Tropical (Tulane University,
2002), guest edited by Greg Castillo and Allan T.
Shulman, investigates facets of Miami as an
urban work-in-progress. The articles explore how
Miami, a provincial U.S.
mainland resort, was
transformed over the
course of just two generations into a major Latin
metropolis. The Tulane
University-based bilingual journal includes
articles on the globalization of tropical regionalist
architecture; an interview with Andrés Duany as
New Urbanism’s “Latin connection”; Miami as a
touristic destination for Cuban visitors in the
’50s; the tropical expressionism of local hotels by
Morris Lapidus; the flamboyant design of the
city’s Bacardi building and an unrealized urban
renewal scheme by 1960s planning guru con-
Florida Modern: Residential Architecture in
Florida: 1945-1970 (Rizzoli, 2005) by Jan
Hochstim chronicles a fast disappearing and
almost forgotten body of work designed for the
Florida climate and culture by a group of talented
young modernists during the years following
World War II. The book concentrates on residential architecture, documenting the best work
of the era, from Key West to Jacksonville, including numerous unsung and unpublished masterpieces by such architects as Paul Rudolph, Gene
Leedy and Rufus Nims.
Coral Gables, Miami Riviera: An Architectural
Guide (The Dade Heritage Trust, 2003) was coauthored by Aristides Millas and Ellen
Uguccioni. The publication combines architectural history with a series of self-guided tours
of Coral Gables. The book is organized into three
sections: an essay comparing the concept of
Coral Gables with influences in American 19th
and 20th century city planning; an essay
examining Coral Gables’ patterns of development; and a section with six self-guided tours
organized by theme. Professor Millas also
The New Civic Art:
Elements of Town
Planning
(Rizzoli,
2003) edited by
Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
and Robert Alminana
(MARCH ’97), is an
encyclopedic compilation of best practices in urban planning and town design, with
over 1,000 illustrated entries. The selections
comprehensively represent important recent
trends as well as historic precedents; the
information included is compiled from more than
200 international sources. Several faculty
members contributed to the volume, including
Rocco Ceo, Jaime Correa, Jean-François
Lejeune and Jorge Loynaz-Garcia. The New
Civic Art is intended to serve as a reference and
textbook, and is modeled on Hegemann and
Peets’ The American Vitruvius: An Architect’s
Handbook of Civic Art (1922), an important
reference book for the New Urbanism.
The Living Traditions of Coconut Grove
(University of Miami School of Architecture,
2002) is a collection of essays that documents
the university-community outreach program in
West Coconut Grove, coordinated by Luce Professor Samina Quraeshi, and described on page 12.
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CONTRIBUTORS TO THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Contributions to the School of Architecture between May 1, 2002 and May 31, 2004
GIFTS FROM FRIENDS
Leonard Leroy Abess, Jr.
Betty S. Abrams
David Abrams
Beth Sandler Adler
Leslie Adler, C.P.A.
Andrew V. Aldi
Alexander Gorlin Architect
Alison Spear Architect PA
Carmen M. Alonso
James J. Anderson III
Louise Latimer Anderson
Stanley H. Arkin
Alina Mayo Azze
Randall Craig Baker
James B. D. Beauchamp
Zvonimir T. Belfranin
Charles Nolan Bell
William E. Betsch
Charles C. Bohl
Nick Boyiazis
Richard Thomas Braun
Morris Naum Broad
Steven Brooke
Peter H. Brown
Sally Browne
Ann Broad Bussel
Mary Caldwell
Hilario F. Candela
Myrna F. Canin
Bruno Guido Carnesella
Letitia T. Cason
Frank John Ceriani
Robert L. Chapman III
Lilliam Chisholm
Charles Elvan Cobb, Jr.
Carlton and Andrea Cole
Jaime E. Correa
Christopher Crowley
Susan Cumins
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Daly, Jr.
Thomas A. Daniel (deceased)
Lillian S. De La Horra
Mrs. Jacqueline S. De Souza
Catherine Dritenbas
Andres M. Duany
Richard W. Ebsary
H. Gordon Fales, Jr.
James Kevin Foster
Joan G. Frechette
Gail Baldwin, Architect
Jacqueline A. Gangnelli
Federico Garcia, C.P.A.
Isa Garcia
Jeffrey Allen Gidney
Joan G. Glasser
Matthew B. Gorson
Jason Hal Haber
Martina Hahn-Baur
Saundra S. Halpern
Keith William Hayes
Denis H. Hector
Nancy B. Hector
Janice Baisman Heredia
Rita D. Holloway
Williams P. Horn
Jeanann Hussle
Jane Z. Iversen
Albert Johnson
Dawn M. Jones
Julie Anne Cecere Architect
Sharon Kelln
Kent D. Hamilton, A.l.A., Architect
Mary Ann S. La Russo, R.N.
Philip A. Langdon
Craig Stewart Likness
Joanna L. Lombard
Alina G. Lopez-Gottardi
Jay Wiley Lotspeich
Anne Wise Low
Lourdes M. Macia
Dolly MacIntyre
Jeannette Manent
Finlay B. Matheson
Arva Parks McCabe
Robert H. McCabe, Ph.D.
Howard Earl McCall, Sr.
Marjorie F. McCall
Valerie Jean McConnell
Paul Joseph McMahon
Billy Eugene Miller
Robert F. Miller, M.D.
Elliot Monter
Muriel Oxenberg Murphy
Antonio R. Obregon
Carol Passanisi-Kirchhoff
M. Teresa Pastor
Neal I. Payton
Jorge M. Perez
Elizabeth M. Plater-Zyberk
Hortensia Quevedo
Margarita B. Remos
Carole and Arthur Rietz,
The Howard L. Rietz Advised Fund
of The Community Foundation
of Middle Tennessee
Paul Anthony Rinaldi
Henry G. Ring
Muriel R. Rizzo
Mark Howard Rubin
Maryann McCabe Ruehrmund
Caterina Ruiz-De-Quevedo
Denis Arthur Russ, Esq.
Alexander A. Sakhnovsky
Hortensia E. Sampedro
Denise Kelly Santurio
Eduardo M. Sardina
Brigitte Seeley
R. Matthew Shannon
Richard C. Shepard
Ronald G. Singerman
Alfred G. Smith, M.D.
Lee E. Smith
Manuel Sola, Jr.
Alison Spear
Harold Charles Spear, M.D.
Arnold R. Spokane
John Ames Steffian, Sr.
Dr. James G. Stewart, Jr.
Susan J. Tarbe, Esq.
Stanley G. Tate
Craig Taube
Helen Merritt Taylor
O. Dale Teaff, Jr.
Dhiru A. Thadani, A.I.A.
Kenneth Treister
Robert Venturi, Jr.
Jay W. Weiss (deceased)
R. Earl Welbaum, Esq.
Carolyn C. White
Robert Jay Wittmer
Thom Wolek
Marie L. York
GIFTS FROM CORPORATIONS,
FOUNDATIONS AND
ORGANIZATIONS
180 Degree Design Studio, LLC
Alexander C. MacIntyre Trust II
AP Savino LLC
Architect Design Collaborative
Architecture Plus Inc
Arcwerks Inc.
Arquitectonica International
Arriba Enterprises, Inc.
Ayers, Saint, Gross, Inc.
Azze Architecture, Inc.
Beame Architectural Parnership
Beauchamp Construction Co., Inc.
Books & Books of Coral Gables, Inc.
The Bravo Design Group, Inc
Brown Demandt Architects PA
Burlington Neighborhood LLC
Carmen Guerrero Design Studio
Clifford M. Scholz Architects, Inc.
Cobb Family Foundation, Inc.
The Community Foundation of Middle
Tennessee
The Corradino Group
Dacra
Daniel Electrical Contractors, Inc.
The Design Team Inc.
DMJMH+N
Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation, Inc.
Falcon & Bueno
First Florida Building Corp.
Florida Shopping Center Inc.
G. J. Olson Architects, Inc
Garcia Brenner Stromberg Architecture
Genovese Joblove & Battista, P.A.
Geomantic Designs Inc.
Gilbane Building Company
Gonzalez-Abreu/Alas, Inc
Graham Foundation
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Gurri Matute, PA
Hidalgo Construction Co., Inc.
Intek, Inc.
Interplan Architects Inc.
The J. M. Kaplan Fund
James N. Archer Architect, P.A.
Jeffrey Evans Associates, P.A.
John Lowell, Jr. P.A.
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Jorge L. Hernandez Architect, PA
Jose Requejo Corp.
LCO, Inc.
Lennar Homes, Inc.
Metropolitan Life Foundation
Misc Donors FY 2003
Morlic Engineering Corp
Murai, Wald, Biondo & Moreno
Nichols Brosch Sandoval & Associates
Octavio A Santurio, PA
Oliva Meoz Architects Planners
OP Architect P.A.
Pascual Perez Kiliddjian & Associates
Peacock Grove Design Studio
Perkins & Will
Phillips Eisinger Koss & Brown
R. E. Chisholm Architects Inc.
R.A. Enterprises, Inc.
R.K. Banerjee, Inc.
Ramms Engineering, Inc.
RC Aluminum Industries, Inc.
re.Presentation, Inc.
Redevco Consulting, Inc.
Remos Building & Development
Revuelta, Vega, Leon PA
Rinker Materials Corporation
Ryder Consumer Truck Rental
Ryder System, Inc.
San Cristobal de la Habana Foundation
Seth Harry & Associates Inc
Shepard Broad Foundation Inc
Sixto Architect, Inc.
Sloan Design & Presentation
Solah, Inc.
Spillis Candela/DMJM
State Attorney's Office
Susan Grant Lewin Associates
Tate Enterprises
The Architects Group
Architects Hall Designers Inc.
Thornton Park Central, LLC
T-Square Express
Tubosun Giwa & Partners Inc.
Tuthill Architecture
UBS Financial Services, Inc.
United Way Miami-D 12/03-05/04
Villagers, Inc.
Visa International
Weiss & Socol Architects Chart
Weiss Family Foundation Inc.
GIFTS FROM ALUMNI/AE
Jeremy Patrick Sommer
1954
Jan Hochstim
Elmer Marmorstein
Robert S. Palmer, Sr.
1959
Robert Stephen Monsour
1960
Gail Byron Baldwin
1961
Robert L. Dykes
1963
Fred L. Chiarlanza
1964
Stephen G. Thompson
1965
Arthur W. Dearborn
1967
Pedro Carlos Bravo
1968
William Robert Mee, Jr.
Roberto Arturo Smith
Maria Elena Wollberg
1969
Edward Charles Berounsky
Donald Fredrick Evans
Robert Athos Koger
1981
James Nelson Archer
Jorge Segundo Azze
Jose E. Blanco
Angel Diaz, Jr.
Steven Z. Epstein
Robert Allen Hey
Thomas Kirchhoff
Geoffrey John Mann
Jacqueline Victoria Pepper
Julio Ripoll
Miguel Angel Rodriguez
Derek Christopher Ross
Anthony Peter Savino
Daniel Eugene Temme
1970
Catherine Park Chester
Jan Joseph Kalas
1971
James W. Brotherton
Ralph Kenneth Cappola
Lydia L. Castellanos
Leon R. Vincent
1972
Teresita Falcon
Jeffrey Robert Jenkins
John Ruffalo, III
John Paul Shaw
1982
Edgardo H. Anderson
Douglas E. Bissi
Reid William Brockmeier
Rolando Conesa, Jr.
Gloria Gonzalez-Gandolfi
Kenneth Paul Hucker
Kevin Stewart Light
Suzanne C. Martinson
Kevin T. Morris
Min Lum Mossman
Alejandro A. Remos
Luis Enrique Trelles
1973
William George Colburn
Jose A. Ferradaz
Angel Rene Rodriguez
Octavio Antonio Santurio
Samuel Shapiro
1974
Carlos Ruiz de Quevedo
Milton Allen Tremblay
1983
Lisa R. Barrowman
Carolina V. Bromberg
Peter W. Cramer
Maria DeLeon-Fleites
Annabel Delgado
John Mark Harrington
Adela A. Ledo
Don A. Lockenbach
Enrique J. Macia
Alfred E. Orbegozo
Jeffrey J. Quick
Lourdes Rodriguez
Paul C. Viccica
1975
Madelin Miguez Bunster
Ignacio F. Bunster-Ossa
Daniel F. Burner
Edward Gorton Davis
Robert P. Hertig
Joseph Michael Hussle
Gregory John Olson
Robert William Tuthill
1976
Raymond Carrion
Steven B. La Russo
Pasquale Papaianni
Luis O. Revuelta
Eusebio Viera
1984
Maria I. Crowley
Kevin J. D'Angiolillo
Thomas J. Frechette
Laurence M. Levis
Susan Lockenbach
Mona L. Root
Max E. Ruehrmund,III
Joel G. Seeley
Marlene Etta Weiss
1977
Robert E. Chisholm
Margarita G. Cordovi
Pedro De La Horra
Jose M. Diaz
Dwight K. Divine
Jeffrey L. Evans
Jorge H. Garcia
Antonio P. Gonzalez
Norman Paul Goulet
Thomas W. Graboski
Kent D. Hamilton
Eduardo N. Lamas
Nicolas A. Luaces
Tetsuko Akiyama Miller
Orlando Perez, Jr.
Roberto Rodriguez
Sharon M. Russell
John W. Salustro
Marilyn W. Wittmer
DONORS FOR
NEW BUILDING
In addition to the major gifts described on
page 3 (see “Construction Underway on
Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center”),
many contributions have made the
building possible. Over 15 gifts have
ranged in amount from $10,000 to $1.5
million. Significant gifts ($10,000 and
above) not mentioned in the page 3
article have been donated by: David and
Dorothy Weaver, Collins Foundation;
Galen Weston, Wittington Investments
Limited; Hilario Candela, Spillis Candela
DMJM; Luis Revuelta, Revuelta, Vega &
Leon; John Nichols, Nichols Brosch
Sandoval & Associates; Jose Luis
Estevez, Maspons Goicouria & Estevez
Architects; Stefan Johansson, Gulfside
Dadeland Ltd; Willy Bermello, Bermello
Ajamil & Partners; Raul Casares, RC
Aluminum Industries, Inc; Alexander and
Odelia Sakhnovsky; and Elizabeth PlaterZyberk and Andrés Duany.
1985
Lourdes A. Belfranin
Arthur J. Pearl
Eric T. Slazyk
Cathy S. Sweetapple
1986
Edmundo M. Aldrey, III
Katia Von Lignau Chenet
Alice Dahbura
Oscar Hidalgo
Jorge Valcarcel
Luigi Vitalini
1978
Humberto Pedro Alonso, Jr.
Steve B. Baumann
Ernesto Antonio Buch
Phillip K. Caldwell
Rafael Diaz
Paul Keith Glasser
Vera B. Holowinsky
Maria C. Mato
Frank Leroy McCune
Jeffrey Leonard Parns
David R. Phillips
Glenn Hudson Pratt
Candido A. Quintana
Constance Kamer Salustro
Iraj S. Shojaie
Groundbreaking reception, April 2003. From left,
Leon Krier, Jayne Abess and Leonard Abess.
1987
Ana M. Alas
Reinaldo J. Borges
Maria C. Chael
Scott A. Hedge
Jose A. Manent, Jr.
Jori Bernat-Lipka Smith
Mark J. Thiele
1992
David J. Goodman
Ross Preston Halle
Lourdes Lorenzo-Luaces
Colette N. Satchell
Timothy James Slawson
Thomas C. Westberg
1988
Hilary Joseph Candela
Daniel J. Fernandez
Tubosun Giwa
Ivan I. Heredia
Vivian Izsack
G. Thomas Krivickas
Hector L. Oliva
Kriss A. Pettersen
Philip James Regan
Rafael Rodriguez
Francisco Suarez
1979
Ranjit Kumar Banerjee
Jeffrey A. Barrett
Richard J. Cronenberger
Paul Ulrich Dritenbas
Hilda P. Fernandez
Yolanda Ana Garcia
Arnaldo Hernandez
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1996
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1997
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1998
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1999
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2000
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2001
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2002
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that even the most eloquent words would not be
present and in front of us all the time, the way the
building would be. And Lincoln knew also that there
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