Architecture By Style
Architecture classified by its use/choice of architectural style.
Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe & Associates Receive Award
MIAMI (November 18, 2009) – Miami-based architectural firm Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe & Associates (NBWW) recently received the first-place Eagle Award by the Central Florida Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. (ABC) in the category of “Historic Preservation Projects over $100 million dollars.” The firm, which competed in ABC’s 2009 Excellence in Construction Awards [...]
Zyscovich Architects New Images for Synagogue In Brickell
A few months ago, there were reports that a new synagogue was coming to Brickell / Downtown Miami. New images of the Zyscovich Architects designed synagogue have been released as the new institution moves into a capital campaign and one step closer to becoming a reality.
Max Strang Architecture Expands to Colorado
In what could only be described as a bold move, especially in this market, Miami architecture firm Max Strang Architecture announced that it will open a second office in Telluride, Colorado later this year to work with commercial and residential clients who embrace the firm’s award-winning “Environmental Modernism” style.
Max Strang Lecture
Local Miami architect Max Strang will be speaking at the University of Miami on the topic of Environmental Modernism. The lecture is on November 17th at 6pm and is free. It is located at the UM School of Architecture Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center. 1 CE credit is available for those who attend.
Cheers to Bacardi – Historic Designation Awarded
In what is a big win for preservationists in young Miami, the City of Miami Preservation Board voted to award the Bacardi Building on Biscayne Boulevard with a historic designation. The building, north of Downtown Miami is a unique interpretation of the MIMO style (Miami Modernist) typical of Miami in the middle of the twentieth century.
Morris Lapidus at Lincoln Road
Morris Lapidus is the architect who back in the early 1960’s reimagined Lincoln Road in Miami Beach into one of the first pedestrian malls in America — it was he who proposed closing the street to vehicular traffic. ”A car never bought anything,” Lapidus said in defense of his idea to introduce a pedestrian mall. Considering similar changes to streets around [...]
Frank Lloyd Wright – Florida Southern College Exhibit
The University of Miami is hosting a photography exhibit of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Florida Southern College by architecture photographer Robin Hill. Titled “Child of the Sun: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Florida Southern College”, the exhibit documents the largest integrated collection of Wright buildings in the world. The exhibit is taking place at the University of Miami School of Architecture [...]
Architectural Evaluation of Miami Performing Arts Center
This piece is written as an attempt to analyze the influence that the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County (formerly Carnival Center for the Performing Arts Center) (PAC) has had on the urban fabric of Downtown Miami, its architectural ability up to date to serve as an urban generator in the [...]
Lecture by Leon Krier
Attention all urbanists and architects in Miami! There is a lecture by Leon Krier, internationally renowned new urbanist, in the University of Miami, Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center on September 15th at 6:00 p.m.
Colors and Windows of Charleston
I was especially amazed by the liveliness of the buildings and colors that make up this fabulous urban environment. Tropical and pastel colors cover many of the stucco buildings in the urban core of Charleston — from pink to blue these building colors serve as identifable elements of the city. Along East Bay Street, appropriately named Rainbow Row is an excellent example of the importance of colors to this city — featuring a variety of brick and stucco exteriors painted in a spectrum of pastels. Arched doorways, gambrel roofs and quoins on some Rainbow Row exteriors are matched in beauty by paneled wainscoting and architrave moldings inside.
Le Corbusier in the USA – The Carpenter Center in Harvard
The Carpenter Center in Harvard University is the only building on the North American continent designed by the famous architect Le Corbusier — one of the fathers of the modern movement (international style). Despite the controversy over the wisdom of placing a building of such modern design in a traditional location, Le Corbusier felt that [...]
Trinity Church in Boston — Urban Monument and Church
Trinity Church is one of the most important buildings in the development of American architecture, and established the reputation of two of the most significant figures in the history of American art and architecture: Henry Hobson Richardson and John La Farge. In 1971, Trinity was designated a National Historic Landmark for “possessing exceptional value in commemorating or illustrating the history of the United States.”
Victorious Cape May
Picturesque Cape May holds the distinction of being the oldest seashore resort in the United States and one of the most unique.
1450 Brickell Avenue Tour
Recently, I had the pleasure of attending a walk through construction tour of 1450 Brickell Avenue organized by the South Florida Design Book .
