Made in Miami

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

Made in Miami | Hecho en Miami is an alternative, bi-lingual guidebook of the city of Miami. Through the power of observation, it highlights the often overlooked experiences that make this multi-cultural city unique.

The book focuses on the documentation of buildings and spaces that emerge as a confluence of overlapping cultures to reveal a certain Miami-ness in the current built environment. In viewing a more prosaic or commonplace city, the book not only accepts Miami in its present condition but grounds the investigation in a sense of realism that reveals a reality that is far from ordinary. The book contains essays, interviews, and a collection of 70 drawn examples and photographs organized along the following themes: Cross Cultural Urbanism; Tropical Infrastructure; Constructed Landscapes; The Search for Fantasy; Anonymous Architecture and Informality.

In English & Spanish.

Author Bio

Adib Cre is a distinguished alumnus of both the University of Miami and Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His research on Latin American urbanism and architecture, most notably the mapping of informal cities throughout the Global South, has been presented at a variety of national and international conferences including the American Institute of Architects National Convention. He is an Assistant Professor in Practice at the University of Miami School of Architecture and has taught at Yale University as the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor of Architectural Design, Northeastern University, and the Boston Architectural Center. He is currently working on a forthcoming book entitled: Made in Miami/Hecho en Miami (ACTAR Publishers, 2022). Parallel to his academic work, Cre is a partner in the Miami-based firm of CURE & PENABAD. The work of the firm has received numerous awards including nearly twenty American Institute of Architects awards; local and national preservation awards and most recently the firm received the prestigious Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League of New York, a competition that recognizes individuals with a distinct design voice and a significant body of realized work. Carie Penabad is a distinguished alumna of both the University of Miami and Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is currently an Associate Professor at the school and was formerly both Associate Dean of Research and Director of the Undergraduate program (2016 - Summer 2021). She has taught in a variety of institutions; and in 2013 she was appointed the Louis I Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University. Her publications include: Marion Manley: Miami's First Women Architect (University of Georgia Press, 2010); Call to Order: Sustaining Simplicity in Architecture (ORO Publishers, 2018) and the forthcoming: Made in Miami/Hecho en Miami (ACTAR Publishers, 2022).