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Date

3-1978

Description

The Eden Roc Renaissance Miami Beach was completed in 1956. Designed by architect Morris Lapidus after completing the Fontainebleu, the Eden Roc’s neighbor. Lapidus used curvy and innovative designs that were widely criticized at the time they were being built. At the time it was built, the Eden Roc was considered a vision of the Italian Renaissance. Today the style he invented has been coined Miami Modernist Architecture (MiMo), although Lapidus himself would likely object to such classification. He was quoted as saying that his style was “simply an expression of my own ideas, not an expression of a particular school of architecture.”

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http://www.edenrocmiami.com/miami-beach-resort-hotel/Eden-Roc-History-34.html

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This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.

Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Creator 2 Dates

1902-2001

Creator 2 Role

Architect

Recommended Citation

Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.

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Keywords

Morris Lapidus; Eden Roc Renaissance Miami Beach; hotel; tourism; waterfront; Oceanfront; architecture;

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