The book presents the collection of highrise condominiums that are transforming the shape and spirit of Miami. Featured examples range from already familiar landmarks to visionary projections. Built projects include Architectonica’s Icon Brickell, and Oppenheim’s Ten Museum Park. Buildings for the near future or already under construction include Zaha Hadid’s 1000 Museum and Herzog and de Meuron’s Jade Signature. The survey also presents speculative projects that push the envelope of what is possible to imagine in Miami. The book details the emerging architectural phenomenon in a variety of media ranging from the spontaneous sketch to immersive and atmospheric rendering. The existing structures are also documented by photographs that complement the architecture with lifestyle cues. Image and commentary capture the branding and styling concepts that package this architecture into a total vision. Rodolphe el-Khoury, Dean of the School or Architecture at the University of Miami, frames the case studies with a broad historical and architectural setting. He describes how innovation in sustainable design and technology aligns with the culture of real estate and development to produce an architecture that is unique to Miami.

• Authored by Eric Firley, Daniel Cazap and Rodolphe el-Khoury and Oscar Riera Ojeda

Contributors Biographies

Eric Firley was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. He studied economy, architecture and city design in Fribourg, Lausanne, Weimar and London, and started his professional career in the real estate sector in Paris. Afterwards he worked for several years in design practices in Paris and London, before dedicating himself full-time to research and writing between 2007 and 2010. In 2011 he became assistant professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture. He has lectured in institutions around the world, including the Skyscraper Museum and Cooper Union in NYC, the Architectural Association in London, UC Berkeley, the National University of Singapore, the Parisian Planning Office (APUR) and McGill University in Montreal.

Daniel Cazap is an Architect graduated from Universidad de Buenos Aires in 2009. In the private sector he has worked extensively in the high-rise residential typology, mainly through his collaboration at Estudio Aisenson, one of Buenos Aires’ biggest architectural firms. In the public sphere he serves as a sustainability & built environment advisor at his city’s legislature. Alongside he also works at Universidad de Belgrano and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella as a professor and course coordinator respectively. Regarding the third sector, he volunteers at Argentina Green Building Council developing education and awareness initiatives.

Rodolphe el-Khoury is Dean of the Miami University School of Architecture.
He was Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto, Head of Architecture at California College of the Arts, and Associate Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He was Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto, Head of Architecture at California College of the Arts, and Associate Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design. el-Khoury was trained as a historian and as an architect; he continues to divide his time between scholarship and practice with Khoury Levit Fong. His books on eighteenth-century European architecture include The Little House, an Architectural Seduction, and See Through Ledoux; Architecture Theatre, and the Pursuit of Transparency. Books on contemporary architecture and urbanism include Monolithic Architecture, Architecture in Fashion, and States of Architecture in the Twenty-first Century: New Directions from the Shanghai Expo. His award-winning projects with KLF include Beirut Martyrs’ Square (AIA San Francisco), MOCAPE, Shenzhen (AIA Cleveland), Market Square, Stratford (Boston Society of Architects). In 2012 KLF won international design competitions for a planning exhibition hall in Changzhi, China, and for the revitalization of Copley Square in Boston.