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Alfred Browning Parker, FAIA (1916–2011) was a Modernist architect who is known for his post-World War II residential architecture in the region around Miami, Florida. He was born in Boston, MA and moved to Miami when he was eight years old. Parker graduated from the University of Florida in 1939 with a degree in Architecture.

Parker began his practice in Miami in 1946, designing over 500 projects. Most notable were his own homes, especially the homes he designed for himself on Royal Road and in Gables Estates as well as the home he called Woodsong, his mother's Jewel in the Treetop home, and the demolished Alliance Machine Company building (all in Coconut Grove), plus the Hope Lutheran Church on Bird Road, the General Capital Corporation building on NW 54th Street, Miamarina and Temple Beth El in West Palm Beach. He also designed the George Washington Carver Middle School (1952) and the renovation of the Coconut Grove Playhouse (1954)

Parker also served as a professor emeritus at the University of Florida School of Architecture, which became the largest repository of his architectural papers and drawings.

Luis Medina was born on June 18, 1942, in Havana, Cuba. During his childhood, he attended a private military school until he left Cuba for Spain at the age of sixteen in 1958. There, he was introduced to the arts, such as painting and literature, by Cuban poet Gastón Baquero. Medina traveled and worked throughout Europe, visiting Germany and Italy. He migrated to Miami, Florida, in 1961, and was reunited with his mother and stepfather, who had fled Cuba after Fidel Castro’s government came to power. He attended Miami Dade Junior College and took courses in history, philosophy, and sociology. Upon graduating with honors in 1967, Medina enrolled in The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with dreams of becoming a sculptor. He was accompanied at SAIC by his childhood friend José López, and the two were quickly taken in by American mentors Harold Allen and Hugh Edwards.

Medina soon turned his artistic interests to the medium of photography, which he practiced alongside López until his friend’s departure to Miami in 1976. The two taught photography together in the early 1970s at Columbia College - Chicago and other local universities. Medina remained in Chicago, where he developed a growing body of photographic work that focused on architectural photography and documenting marginalized groups, such as the Latinx and gay communities in the Chicago area. In one acclaimed series, Medina captured the inner workings of the gang population, photographing their graffiti while simultaneously earning their respect. In 1980, this work was exhibited in a solo show at the Art Institute.

Medina was diagnosed with a cytomegalovirus infection in 1984; this illness can often be associated with AIDS. A year later, he died at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami at the age of forty-three.

The 10th registered architect in Florida, he opened his own firm in 1911, and in 1915 opened a second office in Palm Beach. Known for Mediterranean Revival Style.

Aristides j. Millas, a registered architect since 1962, holds degrees in Architecture and Urban Design from Carnegie Mellon and Harvard Universities. He taught architectural design, historic preservation, and history at the University of Miami School of Architecture for over forty years until his retirement in 2015. His expertise in historic preservation of architecturally significant South Florida buildings, his research on elderly populations in Miami Beach, and his diverse research library collection of books, journals, reports, and ephemera form a significant contribution to a variety of scholarly Florida-related topics as well as Byzantine and Classical Greek and Roman architecture and art history.

Obituary Miami Herald https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/herald/name/aristides-millas-obituary?id=31593744

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.

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

Victor Deupi is a Cuban American teacher of architectural history and theory, design, and representation at the University of Miami School of Architecture in Coral Gables. He received a Bachelor of Science in architecture from the University of Virginia, a Master of Architecture from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught previously at Fairfield University, the New York Institute of Technology, the University of Notre Dame, the Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture in London, and has been a “Visiting Critic” at the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech. The principal focus of his research is on the art and architecture of the Early Modern Ibero-American world, and mid-20th-century Cuba. His books include Architectural Temperance: Spain and Rome, 1700-1759 (Routledge 2015), Transformations in Classical Architecture: New Directions in Research and Practice (Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, 2018), Emilio Sanchez in New York and Latin America (Routledge, 2020), Cuban Modernism: Mid-Century Architecture 1940-1970, with Jean-Francois Lejeune (Birkhäuser Verlag, 2020), and The Modern Stable and The Modern Winery, both with Oscar Riera Ojeda (Rizzoli, 2021). He has curated exhibitions on Cuban Architects at Home and in Exile: The Modernist Generation (with Jean-François Lejeune) at the Coral Gables Museum (Nov. 2016-Feb. 2017), and Emilio Sanchez in South Florida Collections (with Nathan Timpano) at the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami (Feb.-May 2017). Dr. Deupi was also the President of the CINTAS Foundation which gives annual fellowships in Architecture and Design, the Visual Arts, Creative Writing, and Music Composition to Cubans and people of Cuban descent from 2016-2018.

Jacob Brillhart’s research engages the creative search through drawing, painting and design. This ongoing curiosity focuses on the ever changing relationship between design and methods of representation and visualization. His scholarly investigation of the creative search is based on Le Corbusier’s travel drawings and into his architectural theories and built work. He teaches drawing courses in the Rome program, seminars on Le Corbusier and Theory of Architecture and the Environment, plus core and upper level research studios. This scholarly study influences his own built work through his office Jacob Brillhart Architect, P.A., which seeks to establish a dynamic building vocabulary drawn from place, culture and climate. As a licensed architect and LEED AP, Brillhart is also engaged in sustainable building practices and was honored with the 2009 AIA Miami Design Merit Award for his “Mechanical House” and 2010 AIA Design Excellence Award for the “Grass House”. In 2010, he was also nominated as a finalist for the Rome Prize in Architecture.

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.

Sonia Chao writes and teaches in the area of sustainable architecture and urbanism, resilient design, and historic preservation in the subtropics. Her scholarship explores the intersection between historic preservation, historic places, and resilient design. Across the years, Chao has received numerous grants from public agencies, private foundations, and non-profits, as well as contracts from regional and local governments.
Chao’s current research, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), studies the connections between a city’s built and social layers. The aim is to produce new meta-models, through a human-centered framework, to inform anticipatory guidelines for resilient urban and community design of coastal cities.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew (1992), Chao became the founding director for the University of Miami School of Architecture’s Center for Urban & Community Design and Chao has served as its director since 2006. Under her leadership, the Center has generated investigations, publications, exhibitions, symposia, and partnerships with communities, to promote sustainable and resilient design practices worldwide. Chao has also re-aligned the Center’s core values, encouraging the design of buildings and communities that are environmentally responsible, socially equitable, and economically viable.
Recently, in the wake of severe hurricanes in the Caribbean, Chao, her colleague, engineering professor Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos and a recent alumna, Gaby Feito, continued an effort to assist communities to rebuild in a resilient manner by creating a digitally available ‘user-friendly’ shipping container housing building design kit.
This year, Chao joined UM’s Institute for the Advanced Studies of the Americas, as it’s ‘Climate & the Environment’ Faculty Research Fellow. With Geography colleagues, Chao also helped create the new interdisciplinary Master of Professional Science in Urban Sustainability & Resilience program, which she co-directs, and that will launch in the fall of 2020.
Chao became a Principal Investigator on a team of professors, who in 2018 received a University of Miami U-LINK grant, to analyze and quantify the capacity of coral reefs to protect urban centers from storm surge, utilizing Miami Beach as a test site. In the same year, she also received a grant from Dade Heritage Trust to produce a Resilience + Preservation Toolkit, intended for community-wide dissemination in the City of Miami.
In 2006, Chao chaired the first UM symposium addressing urban sustainability, and since then she has focused her research and capacity-building efforts in the area, leading to endeavors in South Florida, Haiti, Mexico, Dominican Republic, and Cuba. Her related National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) funded publication (2016) is entitled Under the Sun: Traditions & Innovations in Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism in the Sub-Tropics.
Since 2002, Chao has also focused on Havana’s sustainably-minded urban codes, balancing the evolution of urban form with the regulations of historical centers. Her correlated funded endeavors include interdisciplinary investigations, publications, lectures, and international exhibitions, alongside scholars from both sides of the Florida Straits. Most recently, she guest curated the Havana 500 exhibition and chaired an associated symposium at UM.
Before entering the academy, Chao practiced architecture in New York City with Robert A.M. Stern and with Kohn Pederson Fox. In Venice, Italy, she practiced with Alberto Cechetto and with Studio Mar, in collaboration with Architetti Vittorio Gregotti. She received a Master’s of Science in Architecture/Building Design Theory from Columbia University and a Bachelor in Architecture from the University of Miami.

Roberto Behar has been a Professor in Practice at the University of Miami School of Architecture since 1986. He is a principal founder of R & R Studios, the collaborative office he shares with Rosario Marquardt. R&R Studios is a multidisciplinary practice weaving together visual arts, architecture, design and the city. Behar frequently lectures in the United States, Europe, Israel, and South America, and his work has been published in over 200 publications worldwide. Behar's work has been presented in galleries, museums, and events in America and abroad. Exhibitions venues include solo and group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Miami Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art at the Madison, Miami International Airport, The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, the Centre International pour la Ville, I’Architecture, et le Paysage (CIVA) in Brussels and the Institute Francais d’ Architecture in Paris, as well as Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

He was the Director of the Architectural Club of Miami from ADD DATES Cultural Director of the Centro de Arquitectos de Rosario.

Behar has a Diploma of Architecture from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Argentina, and later studied at The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City.

Professor Charles Bohl is the founding director of the graduate program in Real Estate Development and Urbanism (MRED+U) at the University of Miami’s School of Architecture, where he previously directed the interdisciplinary Knight Program in Community Building from 2000-2008.
Dr. Bohl is an expert on place making, mixed-use development and the public process for planing and community design. He is the author of Place Making: Developing Town Centers, Main Streets and Urban Villages, a best-selling book published by the Urban Land Institute. He co-edited (w/ Jean-Francois Lejuene) the book Sitte, Hegemann, And The Metropolis: Modern Civic Art And International Exchanges (Routledge).
Research and academic programs carried out by Dr. Bohl have been supported by more than $4.2 million provided by major foundations including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and the Urban Land Institute.
Dr. Bohl serves on the Governance Committee of the 1000-member ULI Southeast Florida/Caribbean District Council, where he previously served as Chair (2015-17). He also served as Chair of the Florida Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism from 2010-2012 and currently serves on the board. Dr. Bohl was elected by the faculty to serve as Speaker of the School of Architecture Council for three successive terms (2017-2020) and currently serves as Deputy Speaker.
Prior to joining the University of Miami Professor Bohl was a Senior Research Associate at the University of North Carolina’s Center for Urban and Regional Studies, where he established the Smart Growth and the New Economy Program and served as the Senior Fellow for the Weiss Urban Livability Program. Dr. Bohl holds a doctorate in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He lectures and consults widely on mixed-use development, place making and community building in the U.S. and abroad.

Eric Firley is of French-German nationality and was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. He studied economics, architecture and city design in Fribourg, Lausanne, Weimar and London, and started his professional career in the real estate sector in Paris. Afterwards he worked for several years in design practices in Paris and London, before dedicating himself full-time to research and writing between 2007 and 2010. In 2011 he became assistant professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture. Firley is the initiator and co-author of Wiley’s Urban Handbook Series that consists of three reference works in the field of housing, high-rise urbanism and masterplanning. He has lectured in institutions around the world, including the Skyscraper Museum and Cooper Union in NYC, the Architectural Association and Bartlett School in London, UC Berkeley, the National University of Singapore, the Parisian Planning Office (APUR), Queensland University of Technology and McGill University in Montreal.
Firley’s research has been funded by various public and private sector entities, including Grosvenor, Stanhope, the Arts Council and Design for London. His current research focuses on urban design practice, alternative models of housing production and the impact of immigration on urban form.

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.

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.

Carmen L. Guerrero is a licensed architect, Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives and Facilities and Associate Professor in Practice at the University of Miami School of Architecture. She received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Miami (1990) and a Master of Architecture degree from Cornell University (1994). Since 2000 she has been involved as Director for the School’s Rome program and has developed special courses on the architecture and urbanism of 20th century Italy. Her research has contributed to several international exhibitions and publications focusing on Italian Rationalism. Additionally, she has taught travel seminars and studios concentrating on the impact of regionalism on the design of modern & contemporary architecture in Europe and the Caribbean. The work produced by her students has contributed to preservation and revitalization efforts in Italy, Colombia and the Dominican Republic. Her teaching experience also includes interior design studio and elective courses. In 2008 her architecture and interior design firm received the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce City Beautiful Award followed by recognition in local and national publications. More recently she was awarded a grant from the Ministry of Education in Italy, which promotes academic collaborations with institutions of the Southern Italian hemisphere.

Adib Cure received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Miami and a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design degree from Harvard University. Upon graduation he went to work for the office of Machado & Silvetti, and in 2001 he established the firm of Cure & Penabad Architecture and Urban Design in Miami. The work of the office has received numerous awards including American Institute of Architects awards, state and local preservation awards, a National Congress for New Urbanism Award, and a Silver Medal prize at the 2010 Miami Biennale. Most recently, the firm was nominated as a finalist for the prestigious Marcus Corporation Architectural Prize for emerging architectural talent.