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Jean-François Lejeune is Professor at the U-SoA, where he teaches architectural design, urban design, and history-theory. From June 2009 to December 2014 he was the Director of Graduate Studies. He taught at the Oregon School of Design (1985-87) and was Visiting Professor at the Universidade do Rio Grande du Sul (Brazil), the Università La Sapienza Roma, and the Universidad de Alcalá in Alcalá de Henares in Spain. In 2007 he was an Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Born in Belgium, he graduated from the University of Liège (Belgium) with the Diploma of Engineer-Architect. He is now a Ph.D. candidate and researcher at TU Delft, Netherlands, where he is completing his dissertation on Reciprocal Influences: Rural Utopia, Metropolis and Modernity in Franco’s Spain.
In Europe, Lejeune collaborated on the design of the University of Liège Experimental Farm, and worked as urban designer for the Atelier de Recherche et d’Action Urbaines (Brussels) and for the Archives d’architecture moderne (AAM, Brussels). In Miami, he collaborated with various architecture offices like Duany Plater-Zyberk, Shulman and Associates, and Brillhart Architecture. His books include, among others, the three issues of the School of Architecture periodical The New City (1991, 1994, 1996), The Making of Miami Beach 1933-1942: The Architecture of Lawrence Murray Dixon (with Allan Shulman), Sitte, Hegemann, and the Metropolis (with Charles Bohl), Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities (with Michelangelo Sabatino, commended for the 2011 CICA Bruno Zevi Book Award) whose Italian version was issued in 2016. He has published essays in Rassegna, Stadtbauwelt, Architektur Aktuell, Clog, The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Journal of Architectural Education, Bollettino del CE.S.A.R., and in various exhibition catalogues and books.
Lejeune’s research has also focused on Latin America and Miami and he is a founding member and secretary of DoCOMOMO-US/Florida. He curated in Brussels the exhibition Cruelty and Utopia: Cities and Landscapes of Latin America whose catalogue won the Julius Posener CICA Award for Best Architecture Catalogue in 2005. Other exhibitions include Cuban Architects at Home and in Exile: the Modernist Generation (2016-17, with Victor Deupi), The Florida Home: Modern Living in Miami, 1945-65 (Miami-Tallahassee, 2004-5, with Allan Shulman), Interama: Miami and the Pan-American Dream (Miami, 2008, with Allan Shulman).
He is currently at work on two monographs: Loos and Schinkel: The Metropolis between the Individual and the Collective (Routledge) and The Modern Village: Rural Utopia and Modernity in Franco’s Spain (DOM, Berlin).

Joanna Lombard, AIA, LEED AP, is a registered architect (Florida) and Professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture with a joint appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Miller School of Medicine and is a 2019-2020 Abess Faculty Scholar in the Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Tulane University and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. At UM, she is a founding member of the Built-Environment Behavior & Health Research Group with funded projects in the area of neighborhood design and health, currently studying the impacts of streetscape-greening on Miami-Dade Medicare beneficiaries. She is author and co-author of articles, book chapters, and books (most recent book chapter: “The Landscape Design Principles of William Lyman Phillips in the First Heritage Parks,” in Building Eden, The Beginning of Miami-Dade County’s Visionary Park System, ed. by Rocco Ceo, Pineapple Press, 2018). She is co-leader of one of the eleven university-based teams selected as charter members of the American Institute of Architects Design & Health Research Consortium, and a member of the University of Miami U-LINK team exploring “Hyper-localism: Transforming the Paradigm for Climate Adaptation.”

She has worked with colleagues at UM’s Abess Center, Georgetown and Harvard universities to organize a colloquium on climate migration (graphic report). During the summer of 2018 she was a member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evidence for Action: Culture of Health delegation to the One Water Summit 2018, and with colleagues from the University of Minnesota and Portland State, she convened a discussion group on climate migration at the AIA 2018 Collaborative Research Summit. In March of 2019 she participated in Georgetown Climate Center’s Roundtable on Managed Retreat. In addition to teaching in UM’s School of Architecture’s Architecture and Urban Design Programs, she collaborated with colleagues at CLEO and Van Alen to develop and teach a 3-day workshop for the CLEO/Van Alen Institute Climate Design Lab and continues to work with The Nature Conservancy to advance the Miami Cities Program’s Allapattah: Resilient Health District + Wagner Creek Greenspace Project.

As Lecturer of Architecture at the University of Miami School of Architecture, where he received a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Architecture, Oscar Machado has shared at his alma mater, uninterruptedly since 2000, his appreciable skills in the specialized fields of architecture and urban design. From 28 years of professional practice and a background in architecture, art, art history and philosophy of art, his areas of expertise range from Architectural Design and Drawing, Urban Design, Urban Design of New Urbanism, Architectural Theory, Rome Program and Travel Programs. A central theme of his teaching philosophy is to understand architecture in proportionality to principles that represent its purpose: to serve the public.
At the University of Miami from 2009-2016, Mr. Machado coordinated new curricula for the undergraduate, freshman and sophomore Architecture Design and Drawing studios. Under his direction, the students were taught traditional architecture parallel to traditional urban design. In keeping with the School’s mission of designing sustainably and resiliently, the aim was to prepare students in engaging with the discipline of architecture and its related fields towards providing a service to municipalities, neighborhood associations and county officials; and as importantly, keeping up with architectural drawing traditions and up-to-date technologies. This work corresponds with the University of Miami’s mission of teaching, service and research.
In architectural practice, Mr. Machado has worked on a diversity of architectural projects from residential additions, new homes, housing developments and civic complexes—including acting Town Architect for a new development, Amelia Park, Amelia Island, FL. He has managed all phases of architectural projects from client contact and contract negotiations to permitting and construction administration. In urban projects, similarly, his role as project manager included schematic design, design development and project administration towards implementation. For the City of Miami, FL, he presented urban projects to the Planning Board, Home Owners Associations and City Commissions that were implemented into its Zoning Code. Specializing in building and zoning codes, construction documents and construction administration is a portion of his areas of professional expertise.
As project manager of architectural projects, he won several AIA Award of Excellence for the firms he worked with, ranging from public to private buildings such as the Civic Center of Florida City, FL, Misión San Juan Bautista, Catholic Church, Miami, FL, Saint. Hugh Oaks Housing Development: 26 homes for the City of Miami, FL. In 2000 he founded a design firm specialization on urban, architectural, and interior design, recognized with a Charter Award from the Congress of the New Urbanism (CNU) for the design of a new neighborhood in Managua, Nicaragua. He has served as a consultant to the national and international firm of Hellmuth Obata + Kassabaum (HOK) Planning Group, municipalities, institutions and housing developers. CNU Charter Awards were presented to urban projects he worked on in affiliation with HOK 2005 and M & P Architects and Urbanist. He received an honorable mention from the CNU for advising thesis student Jared D. Sedam, Charter Award.
Mr. Machado has participated in numerous workshops across the globe promoting principles that guide public policy, housing development practice, urban planning and architectural design.

Frank Martinez is an Associate Professor at the University of Miami, School of Architecture, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Miller School of Medicine. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Miami and a graduate degree from Princeton University. He teaches design, drawing and theory in the core of both undergraduate and graduate programs in the School of Architecture. In the past five years he has lectured and led tours in the Graduate Rome program on Roman Villas and Gardens, with primary interest in Renaissance & Baroque Architecture and Urban Design, as well as the summer traveling course: The Grand Tour. Professor Martinez is a member of the Built Environment and Health Research Group, an interdisciplinary research team led by José Szapocznik, chair of Epidemiology and Public Health at UM’s Miller School of Medicine, and is co-author of numerous articles on the impact of the built environment on health. The team, investigates the impact of the built environment on Hispanic elders’ health (funded by the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health), children’s conduct and Hispanic immigrants’ risk for metabolic syndrome, The first results of this work were published in the September 2006 issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology with subsequent publications in journals in public health and architecture, most recently, the 2009 Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. Professor Martinez is also is a founder and design partner in Martinez & Alvarez Architecture, Inc. in which he works collaboratively with his partner and wife, Ana Alvarez. The work has focused primarily on architectural and urban projects that contribute to the art of making cities. Underlying the teaching and research is an exploration of drawing as a method for acquiring and developing architectural knowledge.

Nicholas Patricios holds a Bachelor of Architecture in 1962 by the University of Witwatersrand and a Doctorate of Philosophy by the University College London, England , 1970. He was the Director of the Urban & Regional Planning Program at UM from 1978 to 2012 and Interim Dean of the new School of Architecture from 1983-1984.

Carie Penabad is Associate Dean and Director of the Bachelor of Architecture program. Her research focuses on the study of Latin American urbanism and architecture, particularly gaining accurate data on informal settlements and their growing role in the shaping of the contemporary city. She is also a principal of CURE & PENABAD, based in Miami. The work of the firm ranges in scale from furniture to architecture and urban design, with a focus on the cultural relevance of architecture and its relationship to history, form, craft and type. The office has received 10 American Institute of Architects awards, state and local preservation awards, and has been featured in leading publications and blogs including DOMUS, ArchDaily, KooZA/rch, and Dezeen.

Penabad has taught at a variety of institutions including the Boston Architectural Center and Northeastern University; and in 2013 was the Louis I Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University. She co-authored the book Marion Manley: Miami’s First Women Architect with historian Catherine Lynn (University of Georgia Press, 2010) and recently edited the book Call to Order: Sustaining Simplicity in Architecture (ORO publishers, 2017). Penabad received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami and a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design degree from Harvard University.

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, FAIA, LEED AP, is Malcolm Matheson Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Master of Urban Design Program. She has a joint appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Miller School of Medicine. She was dean of the School of Architecture 1995-2013. She teaches courses on urban design and built environment adaptation to climate change.
Plater-Zyberk has collaborated with faculty across the University including recently with Engineering colleagues researching net-zero water management in buildings. She is a member of the UM Built Environment Behavior and Health Research Group, working with Miller School faculty on projects researching the well-being of children and elders’ relation to characteristics of the built context in which they live. As a consultant with DPZ Partners, she has worked with healthcare systems in Richmond and Chicago on the design of their campuses and community surroundings.
Plater-Zyberk is recognized as a leader of the movement called the New Urbanism, promoting walkable resilient urban design. A co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism in 1992, her teaching, research and consulting professional practice has ranged across new community design, community rebuilding, regional plans and zoning codes. A number of innovations in professional practice, such as the traditional neighborhood design zoning code (TND), were initiated with students in School of Architecture design studios and first implemented through community outreach in South Florida. Recent professional projects include the design of the University President’s house and the City of Miami Zoning Code, Miami 21.
Plater-Zyberk’s publications include refereed journal articles and book chapters. She is co-author of Suburban Nation: the Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (over 85,000 sold), and The New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning. Her work, with Andres Duany and DPZ Partners, has received numerous awards and recognitions including honorary degrees, Architectural Record’s first Women in Architecture Award, and the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. She has served on numerous review and editorial panels, including the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts.

Edgar Sarli has been a faculty member at the University of Miami, School of Architecture since 2009. He received a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University in 2003 and his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami in 1999. After collaborating in the office of Rafael Moneo for five years, he founded Loeb Sarli Architects. The firm’s project-based research ranges from large-scale urban interventions to a collection of portable furniture for contemporary nomadic urbanites. The office has won awards in Switzerland and Spain, and its work has been featured in AV, Domus web, and NZZ. It has been exhibited in America and Europe, including the Architecture Biennale in Venice. Mr. Sarli is a Florida Registered Architect, and teaches Building Technology, Design, and Visual Representation.

Florian Sauter is an Austrian architect and theorist. Together with Charlotte von Moos he is the co-founder of the architectural practice Sauter von Moos based in Basel and Miami. The studio engages in work on all scales, both in theory and practice. Sauter holds a Master and Ph.D. degree from ETH Zurich, where he also taught for many years. He was a Visiting Professor at TU Munich, Cornell AAP and workshop leader at Porto Academy. Sauter is the co-editor of Earth Water Air Fire: The Four Elements and Architecture and the author of Painting the Sky Black: Louis Kahn and the Architectonization of Nature.

Allan Shulman is a Miami based architect and scholar who explores the interrelationship between 20th century urban culture and architecture using the cities of Miami and Miami Beach as a laboratory. As a scholar, he has found in these modern cities ample material for investigations into regionalism, tropical architecture, and the cultural idea of tropicalism. These crucibles of urban transformation have also served as the inspiration for Shulman’s formulation of a design principle that he calls “urban assemblage”: the redevelopment of existing cities through the layering of artifacts of the contemporary landscape. The intersection of tropicalism with urbanization has opened multiple opportunities for funded research and publications to include;

• Buoyant City: Historic District Resiliency & Adaptation Guidelines. 2020.
• Building Bacardi: Architecture, Art & Identity. 2016.
• The Discipline of Nature: Architect Alfred Browning Parker in Florida, 2016.
• Miami Architecture: an AIA Guide Featuring Downtown, the Beaches, and Coconut Grove. 2010.
• Miami Modern Metropolis: Paradise and Paradox in Midcentury Architecture and Planning. Miami, Fla. 2009.
• The Making of Miami Beach, 1933-1942: the Architecture of Lawrence Murray Dixon. 2002.

His academic activities also include exhibits, design competitions, charrettes, lectures, and panel discussions targeted to expanding understanding of South Florida’s built environment. Shulman founded the architecture firm Shulman + Associates (S+A) in 1995.

Mark began his career at Security Pacific Realty Advisory Services where he created innovative financial and transaction strategies for troubled assets and opportunistic situations while directing multi-disciplinary teams in land development and building projects nationwide. In addition to lecturing at the University of Miami, he is Senior Vice President of Brookwood Group, manages the firm’s operations in Florida, and brings a broad investment perspective to its development projects and real estate advisory services practice nationwide.

Veruska Vasconez is an architectural and urban designer practicing nationally and internationally. She is a full time professor and the Visual Studies Coordinator for M.Arch at the University of Miami. She has been teaching at the University of Miami since 2005 and has created two new courses in Visual Representation in Architecture, and Mapping & Visualization. She is well known for her expertise in computer graphics and representation; she has worked in collaboration students, professionals, and advocacy groups on urban historic documentation and analysis projects. She has been a curator and assistant curator on numerous exhibitions, and is co-founder and curator for Meetinghouse, a not-for-profit art gallery located in the Penthouse of the historic Huntington Building in downtown Miami. Veruska has a fellowship in the department of Planning and Design Excellence at Miami-Dade County Parks and Recreation. She has been developing Data Mapping of demographics, geography, topography, climate, health status, socio-economic status, and urban infrastructure in relation to MDPROS properties, programs, and strategic planning. Also developing visual representations of OSMP implementation strategies, market research, and analysis, Veruska assists in identification of health and well-being disparities, including the categorization and representation of community design elements— buildings, streets, blocks, neighborhoods, materials, vernacular architecture, native and exotic landscape materials- relevant to MDPROS strategies.

Teófilo Victoria holds a Masters of Architecture and Urban Design Degree from Columbia University, a Bachelors of Fine Arts and a Bachelors of Architecture from The Rhode Island School of Design. He has been visiting professor at Harvard University and Cornell University and has lectured and participated in juries at the University of Maryland, Notre Dame University and the Instituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice. At the University of Miami he was Undergraduate Program Director from 1995 to 1998 and from 1999 to 2009, Graduate Program Director. He has exhibited at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Institute of Classical Architecture in New York. In 1992 he co-edited Between Two Towers, the Drawings of the School of Miami, with Vincent Scully, Catherine Lynn and Jorge Hernandez and was the guest editor of Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana in 2009.

Charlotte von Moos is a practicing architect and researcher. Together with Florian Sauter, von Moos is the cofounder of the architectural practice Sauter von Moos based in Basel, Switzerland and Miami. The studio engages in work on all scales, both in theory and practice.
Von Moos holds a master’s degree from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, where she taught for many years at the ETH Studio Basel Institute for the Contemporary City, together with Herzog & de Meuron. Von Moos was a visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich and workshop leader at Porto Academy, held at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto.

Professor Wheeler sees her research as a reflection of her transition from practicing architect to studio professor, and ultimately to architectural historian. How these three aspects of architecture—practice, pedagogy, and history—intersect is at the core of her work. Her current project, The Redemption of the Renaissance: Changing Perceptions of Renaissance Architecture in England, 1850-1914, addresses this most directly. Her teaching investigates these intersections in a seminar on the history and theory of architectural drawing, which studies the way drawing impacts architectural thought. She also teaches a seminar on the writings of great architects as well as the second half of the survey of the history of architecture