LECTURE: “Miami Modern (MiMo) Architecture: Futuristic, Flamboyant and Fun”
Wednesday, 11/18/2015 – 07:00 pm – 09:00 pm
Art Deco Museum
1001 Ocean Drive,
Miami Beach, Florida 33139
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Cost: Free for MDLP members; $5.00 General admission

Beginning in Miami and Miami Beach during the post World War II era as a local variation of modernist architectural movements in other parts of the world, MiMo buildings add glamour, fun, and material excess to otherwise stark, minimalist, and efficient styles.

The Fontainebleau, Eden Roc and Deauville hotels and garden style apartments are stunning examples of MiMo – featuring acute angles, delta wings, sweeping curved walls, and soaring pylons. Like Art Deco, there is a strong preservationist movement to preserve MiMo from the wrecking ball. The present development boom is relentless in its quest to replace this architecture with highrises.

Presenter: Adventurer, historian, speaker, and author, Charles J. Kropke