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A major new evaluation of the trailblazing Miami-based architecture firm upon the advent of its fortieth anniversary. Arquitectonica is the design firmthat put Miami on the map for the cool, hip, very now architecture thatwas first celebrated on TV in Miami Vice. Since their founding four decades ago, the firm has grown exponentially in stature, and its energies have only increased.

Arquitectonica is a major presenceon the world architectural stage, with offices in New York, Los Angeles,Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Manila, Dubai, Lima, and São Paulo. Foundedin 1977, the firm received critical and popular attention and acclaimalmost from its inception, thanks to a bold modernism that wasimmediately identified with a renaissance in Miami’s urban Bernardo Fort-Brescia and Laurinda Spear continue to this dayexploring and pushing the limits of materials and design with theirinnovative use of geometry, pattern, and color.

The first book on this major international architectural design firm since Rizzoli’s own Arquitectonica (2004),this volume is a retrospective of the firm’s forty-year history,considering its earliest projects—the archetypal and hugely influentialPink House and Babylon Apartments—to Regalia Condominium tower, itstwenty-first-century masterwork of undulant glass and steel.