After spending January focusing on Los Angeles, Archinect is shifting its focus to Florida with a month-long Spotlight on Miami. 

As the largest city in Florida and one of the largest cities in the United States, Miami offers a view into a unique—and rapidly changing—segment of the American building industry. Filled with a growing set of speculative building projects and burgeoning creative districts while simultaneously already experiencing many of the impacts of climate change-induced gentrification, the city offers up a preview of what could become America’s near-future urban condition. Simultaneously, however, the city offers a diverse set of growing architectural practices, educational institutions, and advocacy organizations that are pushing to bring quality and thoughtfulness to Miami’s built environment. These conflicting trajectories highlight the power, relevance, and preeminence of Miami’s built environment. 

This month, we’ll bring you interviews with local architecture leaders, profiles on a variety of practices in the area, and views into some of the city’s most interesting and complex projects and concerns. Not only that, but our focus on employment and academic issues will also focus on the city’s specific strengths. 

A few of our recent Miami highlights include:

Keep an eye out for our Spotlight on Miami tag to keep up with what's going on in the Magic City. 

For the month of March, we will focus on Boston. Let us know in the comments below if you have ideas for where should we focus on in April!