The Art Deco Houses of Miami Beach
by Dora Sofia Caputo
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The Art Deco Houses of Miami Beach
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Dora Sofia Caputo
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The Art Deco Houses of Miami Beach - By Dora Sofia Caputo
The Miami Beach Architectural District is a U.S. historic district located in the South Beach neighborhood of Miami Beach, Florida. The area is well known as the district where Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace lived, in a mansion on Ocean Drive.
This historic district holds the largest collection of Art Deco buildings in the world, an umbrella term covering a range of styles such as “Streamline”, “Tropical”, and “Med-deco” and built mostly between the Great Depression and the early 1940s. Notably, the architectural movement reached Miami after the city’s real estate market took a downturn in 1925, and the "Great Miami Hurricane" of 1926 that left 25,000 people homeless throughout the greater Miami region.
The designs are often described as evoking technological modernity, resilience, and optimism. The Miami Beach Art Deco Museum describes the Miami building boom as coming mostly during the second phase of the architectural movement known as Streamline Moderne, a style that was “buttressed by the belief that times would get better, and was infused with the optimistic futurism extolled at American’s World Fairs of the 1930s.”
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January 17th, 2021
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Dora Sofia Caputo
Thank you Karen for the feature in your great Group Lady Photographers and Artists.
Joseph Schofield
Congratulations on being featured in the My Florida group. You're invited to post this on the 2022 Featured Images and thank you thread in discussions.
Dora Sofia Caputo
The Art Deco section in Miami is fascinating! One of my favorites places to visit while in the area. Thanks so much for your visit and kind comments, Mary!
Mary Grden
Dora, your amazing gallery always seems to bring forth what I long for. I love Art Deco and Southwest design. You have both, but the Cobalt blue caught my eye first today and is my favorite color. This so soothing with the color combinations, lovely!!! :D L/F
Debby Pueschel
What wonderful colorful homes! Congratulations on your feature in New FAA Uploads. FL
Dora Sofia Caputo
Thank you Carole for the feature in your great Group FAA Gallery Home For All Artists Who Create.
CAROLE SPANDAU
Your artwork has been featured on the homepage of FAA Gallery Home For All Artists Who Create. Please post your amazing artwork in our` Archive your FEBRUARY Features` discussion.
Jenny Revitz Soper
BRAVO! Your artwork has earned a FEATURE on the homepage of the FAA Artist Group No Place Like Home, 1/25/2021! You may also post it in the Group's Features discussion thread and any other thread that fits! l/f
Dora Sofia Caputo
Thank you, Robert, for the feature in your great Group Your Very Best Photography.
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