Collection includes facsimiles of site plans, ephemera, and one ring binder of project related facsimiles of presentation drawings, sketches, and models for the proposed buildings.
Tracings, construction drawings, site plans for the home of Richard Namon at 5501 SW 93rd Street, Miami FL Correspondence from Alfred Browning Parker to Richard Namon
This collection contains a selection of historic preservation reports prepared by Architect, Allan T. Shulman. The majority of the surveys are of Miami Beach architecture from the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s and one report for Hialeah Park and its immediate environs. This collection holds the distinction of providing a documentation of recommendations for the preservation, restoration and conservation of the sub-tropical building environment with an emphasis on the architecture of the resort/hospitality industry in Miami Beach.
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.
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.
The Architecture Faculty Oral History Project is a series of interviews with faculty from the University of Miami School of Architecture. These oral histories serve a fundamental purpose in capturing and preserving the individual memories of the faculty. The project began with informal conversations to assess how the library could best address their scholarly support needs. The interview process revealed critical yet untold stories about the history and pedagogical evolution of the School of Architecture. An ongoing project, the faculty oral histories documented here provide the scaffolding for narrating the school's pedagogical trajectories from the mid-century to the present.
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.
Commodore Club (Highleyman House) 1402 South Bayshore Drive, aka A.J.A Fay Residence with architectural revisions by Henry Lapointe and Martin L. Hampton
The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) Records Collection includes annual conference programs, promotional materials, attendance lists, correspondence, audio visual recordings, research project materials, publications, award submission packets, award programs, and administrative files relating to the CNU’s annual congress meeting, annual Charter Awards, board meetings, research projects, and CNU publications. The records cover the organization's activities between 1991 and 2017.
Built works, unbuilt/schematic works, experimental architecture work, and reference materials created by, and about, Gordon Gilbert including preliminary sketches, construction drawings, construction photos, final photos, models, presentations, and publications.
This collection consists of publications for the planning and building of Florida homes primarily, but not exclusively, targeted to returning war veterans. The majority of the pamphlets and guidebooks in this collection were distributed through contractors, builders, and real estate agencies located primarily in the Florida region during the 1940s and 50s.
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:
Original architectural blueprints by firm of Kiehnel & Elliott designed for the residence of Mrs. William J. Gilbert at 908 Brickell Avenue, and alterations done in 1948 by the firm of Robert Law Weed & Associates for Dr. Fuad Hanna.
Theses submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture for the School of Architecture, University of Miami.
11" x 17" bound (mostly spiral) format, some include CDs
This collection contains the teaching collections of Paul Buisson, Professor of Architecture in the Department of Architecture & Planning in the School of Engineering and the School of Architecture from 1964 to 1988. He traveled extensively throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia photographing architectural heritage sites, urban developments and other architecturally relevant cultural attractions.
Promotional exhibition materials for Feliciano Centurion; José-Antonio Fernández-Muro; Neo Muyanga; Anna Bella Geiger; Magali Lara; Lea Lublin; Margarita Paksa; Gory (Rogelio Lopez Marin); Rene Francisco Rodriguez; Gustavo Acosta; Luis Enrique Camejo; Marta Minujin; Luis Cruz Azaceta; Carolina Sardi; Sara Grilo; Meira Marrero; José Toirac; Carlos Quintana; Jose Manuel ForsMarcia Schvartz
Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA)
Original blueprints for foundation and footing plan, floor plan, roof plan, and North elevation designed by Marion I. Manley in 1941. Addition added in 1958 when it became the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Flinlay Matheson. Earl M. Starnes & Joseph G. Kenscher, Architects. (24 February 1958)
A collection of 151 photographs kept on 35mm slides. Most were taken in 1979 with outlying dates as early as 1978 and as late as 1987. Includes multiple pictures taken of buildings and landscapes around the University of Miami Coral Gables campus. Other pictures are of various buildings and street views around south Florida including Palm Beach, Downtown Miami, Port of Miami, Opa-Locka, Hialeah, Coconut Grove, Miami Beach, Vizcaya, and Cape Florida.