Slide Title
Preview
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.”
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). Smolski Images. 436.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/436
Keywords
Morris Lapidus; Eden Roc Renaissance Miami Beach; hotel; tourism; waterfront; Oceanfront; architecture;
Notes
http://www.edenrocmiami.com/miami-beach-resort-hotel/Eden-Roc-History-34.html