The Open City Studio is an itinerant architecture and urbanism summer workshop focused on illustrating the influence of popular culture and folklore in the definition of communities worldwide. The drawings of The Open City Studio, collected from the workshops conducted since 1990 in fifteen different cities in the United States and communities across the world, constitute a comparative urban design series describing the extent to which the circumstantial and the vernacular appropriate and shape urban form and identity. The program has provided an opportunity for American students of Architecture and Urbanism to engage diverse communities and cultures globally and describe their experiences in drawings.
The Open City Studio has studied cities as different as New London, Cape Town, Mumbai, India, Shanghai, Kyoto and Tokyo, to name a few.
The drawings of the Open City Studio are a collection of digital and hand drawn illustrations of the salient and emblematic elements characteristic of particular communities and includes, in addition to buildings and urban places, elements of folklore, flora, fauna and popular culture
The "We Will Rebuild Innovation Committee" was jointly created by faculty of the University of Miami School of Architecture and the College of Engineering, and Florida International University College of Engineering and Design to develop a reconstruction plan for South Miami Dade in response to the devastation of Hurricane Andrew. This file contains initial grant proposal for South Dade Reconstruction Planning Study, charrette planning documents, correspondence, agendas, minutes, reports, and syllabus for ARC 603: Retrofit Studio/Manual for Neighborhood Reconstitution, and design for Shelter for the Homeless.
This series contains materials related to the early academic development of the School of Architecture, including curriculum development, program accreditation, and early reports.
East Little Havana and its surrounding context. Block and typological analyses of residential, commercial, industrial, public, historically and architecturally significant buildings; criminal activity map
This series is a map folder of sketches, drawings, and layouts of various mediums as part of a study of the Coral Gables campus. Includes multiple traces and drawings of the campus's original layouts and historical development through the decades starting in the 1920s and key development years since. Features depicted mostly highlight buildings and landscaping.
The City of Miami commissioned the Center for Urban & Community Design to document the historic neighborhoods of Coconut Grove, first settled by 'northeasterners' and by Bahamians in 1873. A series of drawings were created to illustrate the most salient aspects of the built and natural inheritance of the neighborhoods as well as the characteristics of its original residents. Additional drawings were made to evidence its architectural heritage, the transformation of the neighborhood and its potential for sustainable growth and the preservation of its historic fabric.
