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Architectural Drawings and Maps Collection

  • ARC5000
  • Collection
  • 1985-2008

This collection includes regional and historic maps, original drawings, plans, elevations, photographs, and blueprints of residential and commercial architecture, community project plans, city/town plans, historic restoration plans and aerial photographs.  The bulk of the materials are focused on, but, not limited to the areas of Miami-Dade, Coral Gables, and Miami Beach.

School of Architecture, University of Miami

Archive of the New Urbanism

  • ARC1000
  • Collection
  • 2004

The New Urbanism is the only distinctly American architectural movement of the 20th Century that systemically critiqued the conventional urban planning patterns of the post-war period. The University of Miami Libraries Architecture Research Center Archives is the sole repository for collecting and housing materials documenting this movement that impacted the discourse on urbanization theories and town planning. The principles of the movement were articulated in 1994 in the Charter of the Congress for The New Urbanism. The Congress for the New Urbanism, an organization that promotes walkable, mixed-use neighborhood development and sustainable communities was recognized by the New York Times as "…the most important phenomenon to emerge in American Architecture in the post-Cold-War era."
The New Urbanism movement, which signaled a turning point from the segregated planning and architecture of post-war America to a return to historic principles of traditional town planning, became the focus of a series of contested dialogues not just among architects, planners and developers, but among historians, environmentalists and policy makers as well. The movement continues to influence the principles of town planning and design, and spark debate among its advocates and critics as evidenced in the public fora thirty years following its inception.
This collection includes drawings, project folios, books and manuscripts, periodicals, article clippings, correspondence, videos, CDs, DVDs, audio cassettes and other materials related to New Urbanism theory, writing, and design.

Hometown Maps

  • ARC5100
  • Collection
  • 2004-2014

This collection consists of over 300 digital images of drawings produced by First and Second year architecture students. The course content has been evolving since development in 1997 by Joanna Lombard, Professor of Landscape Architecture at the School of Architecture. Content will continue to be added to the Hometown Maps collection in perpetuity. The images are accessible through the University of Miami Libraries Digital Collections portal:

http://merrick.library.miami.edu/architectureLibrary/arc5100/

In addition, the collection was integrated into a global interactive map which is viewable at: http://scholar.library.miami.edu/hometownmaps/

University of Miami. School of Architecture.

Robert Fitch Smith Papers

  • ARC6400
  • Collection
  • 1894 - 1988

Drawings, watercolors, sketchbooks, photographs, personal papers, scrapbooks

Smith, Robert Fitch, 1894-1964

School of Architecture Archives

  • ARC2500
  • Collection

This collection contains publications, announcements, administrative papers, reports, and ephemera associated with the University of Miami School of Architecture.  It includes an executive summary, Seventy + Years of Architectural Education at the University of Miami, by Prof. Ralph Warburton, which consists of photocopied documents of administrative records compiled mostly from University Archives.  They are arranged chronologically from 1950-2002 in a ring binder. The collection also contains correspondence, newsletters, graphics, announcements, invitations, project files, and SoA related ephemera.

University of Miami. School of Architecture.