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Faculty from the Department of Architectural Engineering, School of Engineering c.1967-68

UM School of Engineering Department of Architecture Faculty, 1967-68
Rear: Thomas Spain, Arthur, Mitchell, Jan Hochstim, Nichols
Front: James E. Branch, John E. Sweet, James Sampson, George J. Acton, Paul Buisson, Woodrow Wilkins

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Ten Principles for Rebuilding Neighborhood Retail

Great streets need great champions -- It takes a vision -- Think residential -- Honor the pedestrian -- Parking is power -- Merchandise and lease proactively -- Make it happen -- Be clean, safe, and friendly -- Extend day into night -- Manage for change.
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Ten Principles for Successful Public/ Private Partnership

Prepare properly for public/private partnerships -- Create a shared vision -- Understand your partners and key players -- Be clear on the risks and rewards for all parties -- Establish a clear and rational decision-making process -- Make sure all parties do their homework -- Secure consistent and coordinated leadership -- Communicate early and often -- Negotiate a fair deal structure -- Build trust as a core value.
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Compact Development: Changing the Rules to Make it Happen four: ULI/NMHC policy forums on compact development

This publication will report on a wide-ranging assessment of tools being used throughout the country to better support compact development through visioning, planning, and new regulations.
ULI Community Catalysis Reports can be downloaded free of charge from ULI's Web site www.uli.org

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Landscape in the Tropics lecture series

Event poster for a lecture series (formerly the Strand Lecture Series) at Books and Books Miami Beach titled "Landscape in the Tropics" and showing dates November 12 through December 17. No year specified. Speakers include Douglas Duany, Bruce Howard, Alberto Perez, V.A. Bueno, Raymond Jungles, and Rocco Ceo.

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David Plowden Photographer Exhibition

1 letter sized event flyer for the opening of an exhibition of David Plowden's photography, February 13-20, 1996 at the University of Miami School of Architecture.
1 letter sized event flyer for David Plowden's lecture on February 14th, 1996, at the Wilder Auditorium. 5 approx. 11x17in copies of the flyer for the lecture.

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Aristides J. Millas Postcard Collection

The bulk of this collection consists of postcards of Miami Beach and Greater Miami-Dade county, with representation of other areas in Florida depicting architecture, landscape, and scenes of travel and leisure, such as the International Pan American Airport, Miami Florida, the Hialeah Race Course, The Naples Hotel, Naples-on-the-Gulf, Florida, the Casino at Las Olas Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, the Ringling Mansion in Sarasota, FL, and many more. Materials mostly consist of postcards, color illustrations, and souvenir picture books. This collection was indexed by the Architecture Research Center as a project to commemorate the contributions of Aristides J. Millas, a beloved professor of the University of Miami School of Architecture, and as a resource for students, faculty and external researchers seeking historic images of Florida.

Binder 1: Miami Beach, Florida
Binder 2: Miami Dade County / City of Miami, Florida
Binder 3: Miami Dade County (South)
Binder 4: Miami Dade County (North)
Binder 5: Florida general

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Watercolor Sketches Collection

The 28 items in this collection of watercolor renderings were done by students in the School of Architecture at the University of Miami under the direction of Professor Tom Spain. Drawing and architectural rendering were essential to the curriculum since the early departmental days. Hand-drawing as a tool for seeing and comprehending spaces in the built environment continues to be strongly encouraged.

New Urbanism: A Blueprint for Sustainable Urban Development in India

This essay delves into the New Urbanism movement, tracing its origins and principles, and examining its relevance in the context of rapidly urbanizing India. Drawing on the need for sustainable urban development, the paper postulates the importance of studying
New Urbanism to address the challenges posed by urbanization in India. The paper further illustrates its applicability in the Indian context with a supporting case study. Key principles particularly the charrette methodology are explored in detail to ensure citizen participation in the highly contested Indian context. Through this analysis, the essay aims to highlight the potential of New Urbanism as a guiding framework for sustainable urban development in India.

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Hometown Maps

  • ARC5100
  • Colección
  • 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/

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Robert Fitch Smith Papers

  • ARC6400
  • Colección
  • 1894 - 1988

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

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Architectural Club of Miami Collection

  • ARC7100
  • Colección
  • 1977 - 1994

Compilation of records, memos, and lists of Architectural Club of Miami events and members.

The Architectural Club of Miami was founded in October 1977 as a not-for-profit corporation registered in the state of Florida. Created as forum for promoting and challenging architectural ideas, the Club sponsored lectures, exhibits, and events that featured prominent architects, urbanists, critics, and theoreticians from around the world. Membership was open to professionals, students and patrons of architecture.

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American Association of University Women records

  • ASM0002
  • Colección
  • 1928-1991

The American Association of University Women records contains the records of the Florida Division from the years 1928 to 1991, in the form of minutes, reports, correspondence, press releases, charters, scrapbooks, and other documentation.

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Agencia Latinoamericana records

  • ASM0005
  • Colección
  • 1948-1986

The papers of the ALA (Agencia Latinoamericana) are divided in 3 major categories: the articles written by the contributors to the ALA (collected during almost 40 years), their correspondence, and the newspaper clippings of those articles.

The writers are mainly from Latin American countries and Spain, but with a few American and British writers also included, such as Waldo Frank and Hugh Thomas. The articles provide information on literature, journalism, sociology, economics and political history of the major powers of the world of that period, and in many cases relating to the Latin American countries.

The bulk of the collection is comprised of contributions from Víctor Alba, Marco A. Almazán, Luis Araquistain, Paul Andrade, Germán Arciniegas, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Julian Marias, Cristina Martin, Alberto Luis Sanchez, Salvador de Madariaga, Ramón Sender and Arturo Uslar Pietri. There are also articles by other distinguished authors, such as Miguel Angel Asturias, Alberto Baeza Flores, Alejandro Casona, Pablo Neruda and Alfonso Reyes.

Included among the ALA papers are articles written by Joaquín Maurín, who used the pen names of W.K. Mayo and Félix R. Anderson. He also wrote under the pen names of John Andersen and Julio A. Roy, but these articles ore not included in this collection. When signing correspondence, he used his own name, Joaquín Maurín, as well as J.M. Juliá and Ray Campbell. Joaquín Maurín's son, Mario, wrote some articles under the same pen name as his father, John Andersen.

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American Play Company collection

  • ASM0006
  • Colección
  • 1800s-1950s

The American Play Company collection includes approximately two thousand and five hundred (2,500) play scripts from the American Play Company of New York City. The files include published and unpublished plays from the nineteenth century through the 1950s. The collection is a donation of Sheldon Abend, President of the American Play Company. Playwrights represented in this gift include sir James M. Barrie, David Belasco, Clare Boothe, George M. Cohan, John Colton, Clyde Fitch, John Galsworthy, Ruth Gordon, Oscar Hammerstein, Moss Hart, Ben Hecht, George S. Kaufman and many others.

The play scripts include original typescripts, carbon copies of typescripts, and printed texts of plays. Many scripts contain handwritten annotations such as dialogue insertions, corrections, and deletions. The play scripts includes productions of all genre and type, for a period of approximately one hundred and fifty years. Scripts contain production annotations for stage, lighting, sound, and casting purposes. The collection offers scholars and students the opportunity to examine play scripts with the personal annotations of production personnel, facts that provide unique information on the original production of plays. Notations for costumes, sets, and stage props offer insights to production styles and techniques, information not generally available in many published versions of plays.

Richard Lewis Aldrich papers

  • ASM0007
  • Colección
  • 1930-1965

The Richard Lewis Aldrich Papers contain the manuscript of his book Style in Mexican Architecture, published by the University of Miami Press in 1968, as well as a number of essays written by Aldrich during his graduate study.

The files also include classroom notes and exams, bibliographies, research notes, personal correspondence, five student term papers dated 1936-62, poetry records concerning his employment at the University of Miami and newspaper clippings on a Miami Beach gallery showing of his watercolor works.

Additional files contain domestic and foreign newspaper clippings, as well as a photograph, of a glider plane developed in 1922 by Edmund Allen. In correspondence, Aldrich mentions Allen indicating that the glider constructor/pilot, who was probably a close friend, assisted Aldrich and enabled him to complete his many years of study.

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Abner T. Allen papers

  • ASM0009
  • Colección
  • 1832-1896

The Abner T. Allen Papers consist primarily of Allen's correspondence with family in New England during the mid- to late-1800s.

The papers of Abner T. Allen reflect his life as a farmer and merchant in the state of Ohio during the 1800's. The correspondence is typical of this period as the letter itself is folded to form the envelope, the address is printed on the outside, and the fold sealed with a wax seal. The majority of the correspondence was to Abner T. Allen from his parents, brothers and sister. These letters concerned all aspects of family affairs and travel between Chagrin Falls, Ohio, South and Western Warren, Massachusetts and New Hartford, Connecticut, where each of the families resided. The collection includes the following documents: leaf of cash transactions, booklet of expenses and revenues, an award. and two Last Will and Testaments; also included are invitations to social affairs.

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Franklin O. Adams papers

  • ASM0012
  • Colección
  • 1868-1944

The Franklin O. Adams papers consist primarily of speeches and papers delivered to various organizations, such as The Tampa Art Institute (1929), The Florida Federation of Garden Clubs (1930), the Gargoyle Club at the University of Florida School Of Architecture (1938), and the Florida Savings, Building and Loan League (1940).  The papers are arranged in chronological order and also include correspondence.

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Jack Clement Quigley plans

  • ASM0014
  • Colección
  • 1959-1973

The Jack Clement Quigley Plans contains architectural plans of predominantly South Florida residences and buildings drawn by Mr. Quigley.

Constantin and Georgeta Aramescu papers

  • ASM0017
  • Colección

The papers of Romanian artists Ticu Aramescu and his sister, Gigi Aramescu Anderson, contain exhibit programs, newspaper clippings, photographs of Gigi's paintings and of Ticu's sculptures. Newspaper clippings from Crónica, The Miami News, and Romanian newspapers, dated 1966-1981, cover exhibitions of the artists' works.

Exhibition programs from the Norton Gallery and Miami Museum of Modern Art document individual and joint showings. The papers also contain photographs of Ticu Aramescu's sculptures and of Gigi's paintings. Photographs also include several of Gigi Aramescu's presentation at Drury College in Springfield, New Jersey as well as sculpture and paintings from her home. Titles identify most of the photographed artworks.

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Joseph Auslander and Audrey Wurdemann papers

  • ASM0019
  • Colección
  • 1916-1957

The Joseph Auslander and Audrey Wurdemann Collection consists predominantly of correspondence, programs, and scripts relating to their involvement with the CBS radio program Housewives' Protective League. The Housewives' Protectice League, airing from 1948 to 1962, was a daily CBS radio feature which explored a variety of issues from childrearing and health to fidelity and marriage troubles. The letters are either from publishers confirming the Auslander's permission to review or discuss their books on air, or from CBS executives discussing their scripts. Included also are several scripts not by Auslander or Wurdemann, and an untitled typescript. Finally, the collection contains a leasing agreement from the Auslanders for a house in New York City. several periodicals, 15 research notebooks, and 28 photographs (with French inscriptions) depicting trench warfare in Belgium during World War I.

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Mary McDougal Axelson papers

  • ASM0020
  • Colección
  • 1917-1970

The Axelson Papers document the family life and professional careers of several  members of the McDougal and Axelson families. Materials relating to Mary McDougal Axelson document her life as a political activist and writer. A leader and organizer of political, literary, and women's groups, Axelson participated in the women's club movement, women's suffrage activities, democratic party politics, health reform, and the world peace campaign. She gained a national and international reputation for her work "Life Begins" which appeared in the form of a novel, play and film. Files also document the accomplishments of family members including her parents, Daniel Archibald and Myrtle McDougal, her sister Violet, husband Ivar Axelson and daughter Mary Ivonne Axelson.

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Virgil Barker papers

  • ASM0023
  • Colección
  • 1899-1964

The Virgil Barker Papers document the career of an influential critic and historian, and provide a interesting record of American art history from 1920-60.  The papers contain Barker's writings on art history, American culture, literature, his own life and critical perspective, the post-World War I generation and other topics.  In addition to Barker's writings and correspondence, programs from European and American art exhibitions, newspaper and magazine clippings, prints, sketches and other materials appear among the papers.

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Harold Bauer Papers

  • ASM0025
  • Colección
  • 1925-1976

The Harold Bauer Papers consist primarily of correspondence between the University of Miami School of Music and Bauer regarding his master piano classes. The letters are primarily between Bauer and Bertha Foster, Dean of the School of Music until 1944, and Joseph Tarpley, School of Music Secretary from 1944 to 1951 and Assistant Dean until 1967. Correspondence files also include memoranda amongst University administration regarding Bauer's classes as well as with prospective students.

The collection also contains a few photographs, concert programs, and clippings.

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Ross Beiler papers

  • ASM0026
  • Colección
  • 1958-1979

The Ross Beiler papers include published studies and research files on politics in south Florida, 1958-68.  The papers, which include polls, articles and papers, newspaper clippings, political advertisements, correspondence, course outlines, and other materials, consist of five series.

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Mabel Blake papers

  • ASM0030
  • Colección
  • n.d., 1967-1972

The Mabel Blake Papers document the activities of Mabel Blake, a member of the National Council of Negro Women from 1967-1972. The papers include copies of the NCNW constitution of 1967, correspondence, pamphlets and programs, materials from a regional conference, and notes and clippings. Financial records, membership lists, and information on the founder of the NCNW, Mary McLeod Bethune are also arranged in these files.

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