Art Deco Welcome Center Rental Facility
Located in the heart of the Miami Beach Art Deco Historic District on 10th Street and iconic Ocean Drive, the Art Deco Welcome Center is a beautiful 4,000 square foot multi-use facility that is sure to be a crowd pleaser for your next special event.
Visit the Art Deco Museum - 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL
Miami Design Preservation League opened the Art Deco Museum in October 2014. This video showcases the museum and a few of the rotating Art Exhibits that have been on display in the space. The museum is open 10am – 5pm, Tuesday – Sunday (Thursdays until 7pm) at 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL.
Miami Beach Art Deco District Tour
Picture slide show of a few of the many beautiful buildings in the Art Deco District.
Miami Beach Visual Memoirs Project
We are recording the memoirs of the City of Miami Beach through the stories of people who have been a part its history. Their stories are being recorded using professional audio and visual equipment. These interviews will then be combined and edited to create a museum installation that will be housed at MDPL's Art Deco Welcome Center on Ocean Drive
Española Way: Great Streets of the Art Deco District
MDPL Presents our Spring 2019 Speaker Series:
Great Streets of the Art Deco District
40 years after the Art Deco District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, we're highlighting the great streets of the district that have helped it to become an internationally known arts, culture, tourism, and heritage capital.
Join us on Española Way for an evening of reminiscing about its past, present, and future. Speakers include:
David Berg, Infinity Real Estate / Clay Hotel
Todd Tragash, STA Architectural Group
Scott Robins, Scott Robins Companies/El Paseo Hotel
Michael Blandino, Scull Sisters
Moderator: Susan Askew, RE:Miami Beach
About Espanola Way: Española Way is a historic street between 14th and 16th street on Miami Beach, stretching from Washington Avenue to the western corners of Drexel Avenue. Española Way is a quaint and picturesque Spanish-inspired village designed in Mediterranean Revival style. It is a festive street where locals and travelers congregate to commiserate, create and celebrate. With 17 dining locations, a new art gallery, hotels, retail and nightly entertainment, Espanola Way provides visitors with an immersive experience on South Beach. All Miami/Dade locals receive 20% savings through a loyalty card which is downloaded via Smartphone.
Collins Avenue A1A: Great Streets of the Art Deco District
MDPL Presents our Spring 2019 Speaker Series:
Great Streets of the Art Deco District
40 years after the Art Deco District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, we're highlighting the great streets of the district that have helped it to become an internationally known arts, culture, tourism, and heritage capital.
Join us on Collins Avenue for an evening of reminiscing about its past, present, and future.
Speakers include:
Peggy Benua, Director at the Dream Hotel
Allan Shulman, Principal at Shulman + Associates
George Neary, Culture & Tourism
Moderator: Jeff Donnelly, Public Historian
Filmed at the Art Deco Wing of the Betsy Hotel, 1433 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL, 33139
Preservation: Past
The past is prologue. Jeff Donnelly, Nancy Liebman, and Richard Nagler recall significant events in the 40 year history of the Miami Beach Architectural District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Nancy Liebman is a current Miami Design Preservation League (MDPL) board member and MDPL Executive Director from 1987 to 1991. Jeff Donnelly is a thirty year veteran of the MDPL tour program and founder of the MDPL Tour Guide Academy. Richard Nagler published his photography book My Love Affair with Miami Beach in 1991. Their recollections and reflections provide insights into the status of MDPL and the Art Deco District today. Moderated by Susan Askew
This is the first in a three-part festival lecture series on the Past, Present, and Future of Preservation in Miami Beach.
Preservation: Present
The tale of two Miami Beach neighborhoods is a story of a recognized problem that existed for many years. North Beach - an area from 63rd Street to 87th Street - was neglected while South Beach became recognized as the center of the universe for historic preservation ethic. This year, forty years after the Art Deco district’s listing on the National Register of Historic Places, North Beach is about to come alive again thanks to a Master Plan designed by the architectural planning firm of Dover Kohl and Partners. Their study was a comprehensive plan for the designation of the area’s MiMo (Miami Modern) architecture and a redevelopment plan for the area’s Town Center that resulted in a zoning change approved by nearly 60% of the electorate. The panel will discuss current plans for North Beach as the example of preservation and new development working together.
This is the second in a three-part festival lecture series on the Past, Present, and Future of Preservation in Miami Beach.
Panelists:
Thomas Mooney: Planning Director of the City of Miami Beach
Jared Green: Ocean Terrace Holdings and Claro Development
Cesar Garcia-Pons: Urban Designer and Principal of garcia-pons+associates
Moderator: Tanya K. Bhatt, Miami Beach resident and President of Miami Beach United
Deco Domestic: 3 Modern Homes of the 1930s
Beyond skyscrapers and South Beach hotels what influence did Deco have on American homes? This lecture will look at three different homes as case studies to explore the regional manifestations of Deco in domestic architecture and interior design. Presented as part of The Wolfsonian’s Mark Mamolen program series on American homes.
Whitney Richardson is Assistant Curator at the Asheville Art Museum in North Carolina. Previously, she was an Assistant Curator at The Wolfsonian in Miami Beach and co-curated the exhibition Deco: Luxury to Mass Market. She holds a M.Phil from Glasgow University in Scotland for the history of design and decorative arts. Shoshana Resnikoff is curator at The Wolfsonian–FIU, Miami Beach, where she focuses on twentieth-century American design and material culture. She co-curated the exhibition Deco: Luxury to Mass Market and is currently developing A Universe of Things: Micky Wolfson Collects, which will open in November of 2019. She received her MA from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware. Silvia Barisione is curator at The Wolfsonian–FIU, Miami Beach since 2011. Previously she has been founding curator at the Wolfsoniana in Genoa, Italy. Her research focuses primarily on twentieth-century decorative arts and design and prewar Italian architecture. She has curated or co-curated numerous exhibitions. Recently she co-curated the Wolfsonian exhibitions Deco: Luxury to Mass Market and Made in Italy: MITA Textile Design 1926-1976.
Preservation: Future
Often Historic Preservation is misinterpreted as “anti-development.” However, the most forward thinking development is adaptive reuse, where Historic Districts allow the balance of thoughtful infill architecture, and existing resources to be considered as positive contributors to mitigation efforts of long-term resiliency and sustainability planning. Historic Preservation preserves the ability to change for future generations, while supporting the continuity of a community's inherent social resiliency. Existing resources should be considered part of our green infrastructure worthy of creative adaptation and public investment. This discussion will center on the future of historic preservation and solutions for the City of Miami Beach to be a leader in investing in adaptation solutions.
This is the third in a three-part festival lecture series on the Past, Present, and Future of preservation in Miami Beach.
Laura Weinstein-Berman, AIA, NCARB is an architect, preservationist, and Managing Director at Vagabond Group Consulting. She is on the board of the MiMo Biscayne Association and manages the Miami Design Preservation League's Center for Resiliency and Sustainability initiatives. She holds a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Architecture with Honors from the University of Miami. She is a proud resident of Miami Beach.
Daniel Ciraldo is Executive Director of the Miami Design Preservation League. He holds a Bachelors in Finance and Marketing from Stern School of Business at New York University.