Slide Title

Miami Beach: Eden Roc Renaissance Hotel

Photographer/Creator

Chet Smolski, Rhode Island College
Morris Lapidus

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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.”

Notes

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

Rights

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Creator 2 Dates

1902-2001

Creator 2 Role

Architect

Building Type

Hotel

Subject Headings

Architecture -- Buildings -- Florida -- Miami Beach.

Country Name

United States of America

Region Name

Florida

City Name

Miami Beach

Recommended Citation

Smolski, Chet and Lapidus, Morris, "Miami Beach: Eden Roc Renaissance Hotel" (1978). Browse All. 436.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/436