Resilience in Concrete: The Thomas P. Murphy Design Studio Building

At Miami in Focus we develop marketing tools that are visually driven through strong photographic narratives. Our business history includes many representative projects across multiple business categories including Time Inc., Warner Bros., Fortune Magazine, Clairol, Taubman Centers, American Standard, Hunter Douglas, Westpoint Stevens and Springmaid.At Miami in Focus we develop marketing tools that are visually driven through strong photographic narratives. Our business history includes many representative projects across multiple business categories including Time Inc., Warner Bros., Fortune Magazine, Clairol, Taubman Centers, American Standard, Hunter Douglas, Westpoint Stevens and Springmaid.Rodolphe el-Khoury is Dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture. Before coming to UMSoA in July, 2014, he was Canada Research Chair and Director of Urban Design at the University of Toronto, Head of Architecture at California College of the Arts, and Associate Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has taught at Columbia University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Princeton University and has had Visiting Professor appointments at MIT, University of Hong Kong, and Rice University (Cullinen Visiting Chair). After earning a Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design, el-Khoury obtained a Master of Science in Architecture from MIT and his Ph.D. from Princeton University.Carmen L. Guerrero is a licensed architect, Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives and Facilities and Associate Professor in Practice at the University of Miami School of Architecture. She received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Miami (1990) and a Master of Architecture degree from Cornell University (1994). Since 2000 she has been involved as Director for the School’s Rome program and has developed special courses on the architecture and urbanism of 20th century Italy. Her research has contributed to several international exhibitions and publications focusing on Italian Rationalism. Additionally, she has taught travel seminars and studios concentrating on the impact of regionalism on the design of modern & contemporary architecture in Europe and the Caribbean. The work produced by her students has contributed to preservation and revitalization efforts in Italy, Colombia and the Dominican Republic. Her teaching experience also includes interior design studio and elective courses. In 2008 her architecture and interior design firm received the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce City Beautiful Award followed by recognition in local and national publications. More recently she was awarded a grant from the Ministry of Education in Italy, which promotes academic collaborations with institutions of the Southern Italian hemisphere.Miami and New York based photographer, Robin Hill straddles the boundaries between architecture, design and fine art by using his medium of choice; photography. Born and raised in Nottingham, England, Hill began his career in 1987 in the most inauspicious way by taking pictures of toddlers in supermarkets and department stores across London. He didn’t know at that stage that one day his photographs would be exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Bilbao or grace the pages of the world’s leading design publications such as Vanity Fair, Wallpaper* and Architectural Digest. Architecture is the corner-stone of his work; perspectives colliding and geometries intersecting, light playing with shadow and whimsy dancing with rigor, a philosophy of action that has led him to work with many of the world’s leading architects including Herzog and de Meuron, Zaha Hadid and Arquitectonica. Hill likes to see his work as a metaphorical tripod with the three legs of his photography; architecture, design and fine art all coming together within the camera that sits atop the tripod. Hill first became known in the world of architecture through a project known as MiMo (MIami MOdern), which is a movement to preserve post-war modern architecture in Miami and resulted in the seminal exhibition ’Beyond the Box’ which debuted at the Municipal Art Society in New York City and resulted in the publication of MiMo: Miami Moden Revealed. (Chronicle Books 2004) The first of more than twenty books that Hill has collaborated on. Hill became involved with other media hosting the EMMY award winning ART 360 on PBS and delivering keynote lectures at the Sarasota Design Conference and the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami. Hill received the AIA award for Florida in 2015 as the Architectural Photographer of the Year.