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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.

Cuban-born playwright Eduardo Machado is the author of over 27 plays and has served as Artistic Director of INTAR Theatre in New York since 2004. Machado is also the former head of Columbia University's Graduate Playwriting Department.

Born in Havana in 1953 to Othon and Hilda, Eduardo Oscar Machado arrived in the United States with his brother Jesus in 1961 as part of Operation Pedro Pan, an effort that brought 14,000 unaccompanied children out of Cuba. Machado and his brother lived with relatives in Hialeah, Florida until they were reunited with their parents and the family moved to California.

Machado began acting in Los Angeles at age 17, and a year later married Harriet Bradlin. The marriage ended over decade later, and today Machado is openly gay.

After attending writing workshops led by Cuban-American dramatist María Irene Fornés, he moved to New York in the early 1980s and began writing plays full time. Machado's works most often explore themes of Cuba, exile, cultural identity, and homosexuality. Among his most widely produced plays are Havana is Waiting and the plays that make up The Floating Island Plays: The Modern Ladies of Guanabacoa, Fabiola, In the Eye of the Hurricane, and Broken Eggs. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group, Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. With Michael Domitrovitch, Machado authored a memoir and cookbook in 2007, Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home (Gotham).

Gerardo Machado y Morales was the fifth president of the Republic of Cuba from 1925 to 1933. Born in Santa Clara, Las Villas, Cuba on 28 September 1871 to Gerardo Machado y Castellón and Lutgarda Morales Yanes, Machado was the youngest general of the Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898), rising to the rank of brigadier general. After the war, he served as mayor of Santa Clara during the American occupation (1898-1902). Machado’s political activities led him to join the Liberal Party, and he was its candidate for governor of Las Villas province in 1908 but was defeated. Despite this defeat, Machado served in various posts under the government of José Miguel Gómez, including a stint as Secretary of the Interior until 1912. For the next 12 years, Machado remained an active member of the Liberal Party but was not did not run for any office. During this time he focused his attention on his business endeavors, which included a sugar mill, the Central Carmita, and interests in Cuba’s electrical industry, serving as vice president of the Compañía Cubana de Electricidad. It is also in these years that Machado married his cousin, Elvira Machado Nodal. Together they had three daughters: Laudelina (Nena), Angela Elvira, and Berta.

In 1924, Machado was elected president of the Republic of Cuba. During his first term from 1925 to 1928, Machado instituted a major public works program. This program included the construction of Cuba’s Central Highway, the Capitolio Nacional, and many new public buildings, schools, hospitals, and roads. Before the end of his term, the Constituent Assembly amended the Cuban Constitution to create a six-year presidential term. Machado was re-elected in 1928 and under the new law, he would serve as president until 1935. Machado’s second term was strife with internal conflict and economic turmoil. Sugar prices fell drastically and many Cubans became unemployed. With growing unrest, in 1930 Machado authorized police forces to break up political meetings and demonstrations, decreeing them illegal. The opposition to Machado and his government grew, and his repressive measures intensified. In 1932, Machado suspended the Constitution, and in 1933, US president Franklin D. Roosevelt instructed Ambassador Sumner Welles to mediate between Machado and opposition forces. Welles’ efforts failed, a general strike was called, and on 12 August 1933, Gerardo Machado was forced into exile.

Machado’s family took refuge in the United States. His wife Elvira and their three daughters and their families settled in New York. Machado went into exile in Nassau, the Bahamas. He could not immediately join his family in the US as there was the possibility that he would be extradited to Cuba. In the meantime, Machado traveled to the Dominican Republic, Europe, Bermuda, and Montreal. In 1936, Machado joined his family in New York, and the following year they moved to Miami Beach. On 29 March 1939, Gerardo Machado passed away. He is buried in Miami's Woodlawn Cemetery.

The Gerardo Machado y Morales Papers were donated to the Cuban Heritage Collection in 1992 by Machado’s great-grandson, Francisco X. Santeiro.

Dr. Antonio Maceo y Macke was born on August 9, 1920 in Havana, Cuba.  He attended Colegio Mimó  and Instituto de la Habana.  Maceo graduated from the University of Paris in 1936 and the University of Havana in 1938 with a doctor of medicine degree.  After graduation, Maceo offered his medical services in emergency rooms in Havana, and worked as a surgeon in Havana's General Hospital,  in General Hospital of Freyre de Andrade and in Maternity Hospital.  He then joined the army at a rank of a Captain and served at Carlos Finlay Hospital.  Subsequently, he became Deputy to the Secretary of Health.

On July 11, 1960, Maceo moved to Miami, Florida. Between 1961 and 1963 he was a member of the Consejo Revolucionario Cubano.  He also participated in a program of rehabilitation of the sick and injured members of Brigade 2506 offered by the Dade County Medical Association.  Maceo appeared regularly in a radio program aired in Cuba and Latin America called "El Medico y usted" (The Doctor and You).  In 1963, he began to offer his medical services to the Department of Public Health of Dade County, and in 1971, to the Center of Cuban refugees.  From 1976 to 1984, Maceo was in charge of infectious diseases in the Department of Public Health  of Dade County.