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2021 AIA Fellowship

Candidate

Rocco Ceo

Organization Rocco Ceo Architect

Location

Chapter

Coral Gables, Florida

AIA Florida; AIA Miami

Category of Nomination

Object 5 > Service to Society

Summary Statement

Rocco Ceo is a dedicated educator, accomplished creator, and committed civic advocate. His model service in

advancing livable communities transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries by conserving tropical landscapes,

preserving seminal structures and strengthening public engagement.

Education

Harvard University GSD, Cambridge, MA. 1984-1986, Master of Architecture II

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. 1979-1984, Bachelor of Architecture

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. 1979-1984, Bachelor of Fine Arts

Licensed in:

State of Florida Lic. #16032

NCARB Certificate #51114

Employment

University of Miami, School of Architecture, Coral Gables, FL., 1988-Present, 32 years

Professor, 2004-present, with tenure.

Associate Professor, 1995-2004, with tenure.

Assistant Professor,1989-1995

Visiting Professor, 1988-1989

Rocco Ceo, Architect, Coral Gables, FL., 2005-Present, 15 years

Architect

Ceo & Nardi Design, Inc., Coral Gables, FL., 1992-2005, 13 years

Architect 1997

Intern 1992-1997

Friedrich St. Florian, Architects., Providence, RI., June 1988-August 1988, 3 months

Intern

Macdonald/Casner Inc., Providence, RI., September 1986-March 1988, 1 year 6 months

Intern

Machado & Silvetti, Boston, MA., June 1986-August 1986, 3 months

Intern

Gauchat Architects Inc. Cambridge, MA., June 1985-February 1986, 8 months

Intern

Macdonald/Casner Inc., Providence, RI., September 1983- March 1984, 6 months

Intern

William Warner Architects & Planners, Exeter, RI., June 1983-August 1983, 3 months

Intern

Rocco Ceo is a dedicated educator, accomplished creator, and committed civic advocate. His model

service in advancing livable communities transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries by conserving

tropical landscapes, preserving seminal structures and strengthening public engagement.

CONSERVING TROPICAL LANDSCAPES

Rocco’s long term commitment to documenting

landscapes throughout the state as seen in his co-authored book

Historic Landscapes of Florida has given the public an extensive

view of significant and threatened landscapes and inspired

conservation and advocacy. Rocco’s research and guidance

of his documentation team at Villa Vizcaya developed materials

contributing to the conservation and restoration of Vizcaya’s

landscape, garden structures, and sculpture.

His launching of the Historic American Landscape

Survey (HALS) in Florida has been instrumental in building

awareness of the cultural landscape as a meaningful community

resource. His work with students to document Orchid Jungle

was one of the first HALS courses offered and one of the earliest

submissions to the new Florida HALS Program for the Library of

Congress for which Rocco is a District Officer.

Understanding landscapes as interconnected systems

also inspired the research and writing of Building Eden: The

Beginning of Miami-Dade County’s Visionary Park System. This

origin narrative of the third largest park system in the US

has helped the Miami-Dade County Parks and Recreation

Department develop design guidelines for future park

structures and landscapes, and advance park advocacy and

education. His research, drawings and writings reveal the

interdependence of professional disciplines and essential

role of informed and integrated understandings in the building

of livable communities.

PRESERVING SEMINAL STRUCTURES

Early structures of a region exert a profound influence

on what is to come after.

These structures, studied, documented, and their history and

cultural importance disseminated, reveal the history of a region.

Rocco’s work preserving and writing about historic architecture

and the people related to it, illuminates early aspirations and the

region’s architectural significance.

The 1908 Paul C. Ransom Cottage and Marjory

Stoneman Douglas house illustrate this point. Built by its owner,

the Ransom Cottage is one of the last surviving board and

batten structures of the original Florida Adirondack School in

Coconut Grove. A few miles south is the lifetime home of Marjory

Stoneman Douglas, renowned author and advocate for the

creation of Everglades National Park. While small in scale, these

wood frame structures figured prominently in the history of the

inhabitation and protection of the South Florida landscape. The

documentation and conservation of these structures ensures

contemporary access to a direct experience with what was once

a dominant mode of construction as well an awareness of the

modest surroundings from which leading figures with great ideas

emanated.

The Redland Plan represents a multi-year effort to

protect South Florida agriculture from intrusive development. This

award-winning plan was adopted into Florida’s Comprehensive

Masterplan, and established the foundation for South Dade’s

greenway network.

BUILDING LIVABLE COMMUNITIES

Livable communities are diverse, accessible, and

connected, with walkable neighborhoods that preserve

signiﬁcant cultural legacies and also plan for development

through locally responsive design and policy initiatives.

Rocco’s work in the planning and preservation of rural

communities through neighborhood charrettes, master

planning, design/build projects and outreach to underserved

parts of the community represents a notably successful and

broadly applicable model for the profession

The M-Path, Rocco’s outreach project established

the guiding vision for a 10-mile long urban greenway below

Miami-Dade’s Metrorail. Convening more than 100 community

leaders, government oﬃcials, and activists, Rocco led

students in the design of what is now the “Underline,” a $155

million project. The Underline’s ﬁrst project, the ‘Brickell

Backyard’ is currently under construction with completion

expected in 2020.

Rocco’s work with students in the Design/Build

Studio demonstrates a multi-dimensional approach to

enhancing community livability through the design and

construction of community-based projects. The University

of Miami Design/Build Program links students with socially

impactful projects providing a forum for participatory design,

and engaging in a hands-on experience to build prototype

projects. This work encourages civic responsibility while

providing students an alternative path in the profession.

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Conserving Tropical Landscapes

Book: Building Eden, The Beginning of Miami-Dade

County’s Visionary Park System, 2018 (Exhibit 3.1)

Principal author and editor for a written history of Miami-Dade

County’s Park System. Historical research assisted in creating

design guidelines for Miami-Dade County Parks Recreation

and Open Spaces Department.

Historic American Landscape Survey (HALS), Fennel’s

Orchid Jungle HALS FL-4, 2009 (Exhibit 3.2)

Project leader to document a seminal historic landscape for

Miami-Dade County and the Library of Congress.

Vizcaya Gardens Documentation Project, 2002 (Exhibit 3.3)

Project Leader to document and recommend strategies for

conserving the architecture, landscape and site sculpture for

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens.

Book: Historic Landscapes of Florida, 2001 (Exhibit 3.4)

Co-author of statewide history of the architecture and

landscapes of Florida. Documental work took over 10 years of

ﬁeld work to draw more than 25 gardens.

Preserving Seminal Structures

Merrick Monument, 2006 (Exhibit 3.5)

Coral Gables, Florida

Architect of Record and project leader for monument of City

Founder George Merrick for the Coral Gables Garden Club

and City of Coral Gables.

Ransom Cottage, 1998 (Exhibit 3.6)

Coconut Grove, Florida

Architect of Record, lead designer, for preservation of historic

1908 wood frame building of the Florida Adirondack school,

Ransom Everglades.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas House, 1993

Coconut Grove, Florida

Project leader for documentation of historic wood frame

building of Environmentalist and author Marjory Stoneman

Douglas for the Land Trust of Dade County.

(Fig. 01)

Redland Preservation & Tourism Plan, 1993 (Exhibit 3.7)

Redland, Florida

Project leader and principal author for masterplan for rural

agricultural community threatened by intrusive and incompat-

ible development.

Building Livable Communities

B. E. & W. R. Miller BuildLab, 2018 (Exhibit 3.8)

Coral Gables, Florida

Project Designer, fundraiser, Design/Build instructor for inﬁll

panels and build-out of construction.

M-Path/Underline Studio, 2014 (Exhibit 3.9)

Miami-Dade County, Florida

Co-teacher of studio to masterplan and intiate a 10-mile long,

125 acre linear park in Dade County now under construction.

UM/SOA Design/Build Program, 2009-Pres. (Exhibit 3.10)

Coral Gables, Florida

Founder and instructor for Hands-on program to teach

students how to design and build for underserved parts of

the community.

Coral Gables Charrette, 2001

Coral Gables, Florida

Participant in Masterplan Charrette for the

City of Coral Gables.

PROJECTS

(01) HALS documentation drawings

with interior view of Marjory

Stoneman Douglas Living room.

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Rhode Island School of Design/ RISD Providence, RI.

Core and Option Studio reviews, 2000, 1991, 1990

Florida International University FIU, Miami, FL

Master’s Thesis Projects, ’18, ’14, ’08, ’07, ’06, ’04.

University of British Columbia, UBC/SALA, Vancouver, Canada.

Comprehensive Masters Design Studio & Options Studios, 2015.

Florida Atlantic University, FAU, Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Design 10 Jury, Comprehensive Studio, 2013.

University of Toronto, Daniels School of Design, Ontario,

Canada. 2nd year Masters Studio on Urban Design.

Harvard University GSD, Cambridge, MA

Studio Reviews, 2000, 1991.

Tulane University, Rome Program, Rome, Italy

Undergraduate Design Studio.

Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL.

2nd year and 4th year Design Studios.

University of Texas, Austin, TX

Invited juror for Master’s Program.

California College of Arts & Crafts (CCAC), San Francisco, CA.

Design Charrette for Treasure Island.

Rice University, Houston, TX

Graduate Studios.

Ecole D’Architecture De Nancy, Nancy, France

Jury for Licensure.

(Fig. 03)

Architecture Program Juries

2019

2016

JURY SERVICE

2015

Rocco Ceo has served on 29 academic juries for 12 architecture programs in the US and 3 programs interna-

tionally. He has also been an active member of the NAAB, ﬁrst on Visiting Teams for accreditation as an appointee

representing the ACSA, and then later as an AIA appointed NAAB board member. He has also served as an outside

reviewer, for cases for tenure, as a paper reviewer for ACSA and as a design juror on competition juries.

(03) Letter of thanks for

attending juries for RISD.

(02) Cover of ACSA/AISC

Pamphlet for Life Cycle

of a School, Steel Design

Competition, Invited Juror.

2007

2004

1996

1994

1991

Association of Collegiate Schools of

Architecture (ACSA) Reviewer

2019

2014

2013

108th ACSA 2020 National Conference Annual

Meeting, San Diego, CA . Invited Paper Reviewer for

Open Papers Sessions.

102nd ACSA 2014 National Conference Annual

Meeting, Miami, FL. Invited Paper Reviewer for Design

Projects “Design Research in the Studio Context.”

102nd ACSA 2014 National Conference Annual

Meeting, Miami, FL. Invited Moderator: “Design

Research in the Studio Context.”

ACSA 2013 Fall Conference: Subtropical Cities 2013,

“Design Interventions for Changing Climates” Invited Paper

reviewer for Theory, Practice and Education submissions.

99th ACSA Annual Meeting Paper Reviewer.

“Hybridized Practices: Both the Analog and the Digital.”

2008-2009 ACSA/AISC Life Cycle of a School Steel

Design Student Competition Invited Juror for the

Open Submissions Category, Washington D.C.

(Fig .02)

97th ACSA Annual Meeting Poster Submission/

Juror. Poster/paper reviewer for: Architecture in an

Expanded Field. From Interiors to Landscape.

2010

2009

2008

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National Architectural Accrediting

Board (NAAB) Visiting Teams

National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB)

Visiting Team. Board Representative, University of

Indiana, Columbus, IN. Master of Architecture, Eligibility

visit, Co-chair, Director member, October.

(Fig. 04)

National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB)

Visiting Team. Appointed ACSA Representative for

Visiting Team, Kent State University, Kent, OH.

National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB)

Visiting Team. Appointed ACSA Representative for

Visiting Team, Rice University, Houston, TX.

National Architecture Accrediting Board, (NAAB)

Visiting Team Appointed ACSA Representative for Visiting

Team, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

2018

2010

2009

2012

2009

2019

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Outside reviewer for Assistant Professor Sandy

Litchﬁeld for tenure and promotion to Associate

Professor.

Bowling Green State University, Ohio.

Outside reviewer for Associate Professor Andreas

Luescher for promotion to Full Professor.

University of British Columbia, UBC/SALA,

Vancouver. Outside reviewer for Assistant Professor John

Bass for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor.

University of New Mexico.

Outside Reviewer for Assistant Professor Stephen

Schreiber for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor.

Tenure Review

2010

2008

1996

(05) Competition

Arcquitectum 2009

2016 Façade Tectonics World Congress, Los Angeles,

CA. Scientific review committee.

Invited juror/panelist, Miami, FL.

Competition Arquitectum/ Miami Pier Museum

International Competition. Invited Juror/panelist,

Miami, FL.

(Fig. 05)

Competition Juries

2016

(04) Review of faculty

critique of student

work on NAAB Indiana

University Eligibility visit

on October 2018.

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PRESENTATIONS /

LECTURES

Exhibitions of Work

“Flat Land” Miami-Dade Public Library MDPL, Sept, –

January, 2018 juried. show, residency.

CPSA 24th Annual International Exhibition, Tacoma,

Washington. American Art Company Gallery Juried.

International show, juror: Michael W. Monroe: Director

Emeritus, Bellevue Arts Museum, 119 selected out of 538

entries June - August, Drawing: “5 O’clock.”

“Parks at our Door: Planning Miami-Dade’s 21st Century

Park System” MCAD Miami Center for Architecture

and Design Invited exhibit, April, Jungle Floor Drawing,

Parks maps.

“Natural Acts”, Meetinghouse Gallery, Miami, The

Huntington Building Invited, One-Man Show. Sept. -Oct.

(Fig. 06)

“Meetinghouse” Invited group exhibition, Miami, The

Huntington Building. November -December.

“M-Path/Greenlink/Underline Studio Work” MCAD Miami

Center for Architecture and Design Studio work of

Master plan for 10 miles of linear park below elevated

Metrorail. June - July.

“Drawn from Miami” MCAD Miami Center for Architec-

ture and Design Juried. International exhibit, Dec.-Feb.

Drawings: Overlook, Dade County Pine, Windley Key.

University of Miami School of Architecture

“History in Pen and Ink: An Exhibition and Lecture about

HABS & HALS Orchid Jungle Drawings from course

taught on HALS. Sept.

2017

2016

2015

(06) Gallery Opening showing

full scale drawing.

2014

2013

“Miami’s Waterfront” Freedom Tower, Miami Fl.

October – January.

“Historic Landscapes of Florida.” Florida History

Museum, Tallahassee, Florida. October – May.

“Historic Landscapes of Florida” Bok Tower Gardens,

December – January.

“Afinnitas” Art Basel Miami Beach. Miami, Florida.

December - December.

“The Teachings, Theory and Practice of University

Professors” AIA Miami Exhibition. May – June.

“Miami Alphabet” Miami-Dade Public Library System.

Juried. Overstreet Overlook Project. June – Sept.

Mennello Folk Art Museum, Orlando, FL. Historic

Landscapes of Florida. Oct. – Mar.

Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL. Studio Work on

West Grove. Sept. – Oct.

University of Miami School of Architecture Drawing as

Research: Reconstructing the Work of Michelangelo. Ten

years of Student Work from the seminar on Michelangelo.

March – April.

(Fig. 07)

“Florida Landscape/Escape” Miami-Dade Public Library

System. Juried. Tropical Tree drawings. April - May.

Deering Estate, Cutler, FL. “Historic Landscapes of

Florida” Twenty-Seven drawings of Historic Landscapes.

September – December .

2011

2008

2005

2004

2003

(07) Exhibition

Announcing “Drawing as

Research” 2002

2002

2001

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Exhibitions of Work - Cont’d

Expo 98, Lisbon, Spain. Redland Plan.

Architectural Association Bilbao, Spain.

Redland Plan, Tropical Tree drawings.

Town Hall Exhibitions: Alessandria, Irun, Oslo. Redland Plan.

Triennale di Milano XIX Juried. Esposizione Internationale.

Habitat II International Forum Istanbul, Turkey. Redland

Plan, Tro pic al Tre es.

Foundation pour l’Architecture Juried.

(Bruxelles, Belgium.) Redland Plan, Tropical Trees.

COCA – Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL.

Juried. “Art + Architecture Miami”. Exhibition catalogue by

Beth Dunlop, Feb.- Mar.

Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL.

“Miami, Architecture of the Tropics.” Windsor House.

Brickell Bridge Competition Entry.

Redland Preservation and Tourism Plan, Nov. – Mar.

Piano Nobile Gallery, Coral Gables, FL.

Naturalist ﬁeld table, Sep.

Miami Architecture, Groningen, Holland.

Windsor House and Brickell Bridge Competition entry.

Foundation Pour L’Architecture, Brussels, Belgium

Juried. “Miami Architectures Sous Les Tropiques.”

Windsor House, Brickell Bridge Competition Entry.

(Fig. 08)

1998

1996

1993

1992

1991

1990

2017

Lectures

“Building Eden.” AIA, Miami Chapter presents: Book

Talks, August 27, 2020. Online lecture by Rocco Ceo and

Joanna Lombard.

“Color Takes a Number: The Early Work of Albert

Munsell and The Foundation of Color theory and

Practice in America” Miami Design Preservation

League Lecture Series, Miami Beach, FL, April.

“FSD: The full size drawing in the design and construc-

tion of Vizcaya 1913-1921” University of Notre Dame,

South Bend, Indiana, The Art of Architecture: Hand

Drawing and Design Conference Paper accepted for

presentation Sept - Oct.

(F ig . 09)

“The Construction of Shade,” Neuhouse/ The Light of

Miami, Miami, FL. Sept. 17. Conversation on Miami’s Light

and Its Impact on the practice of architecture.

“What’s Out There Weekend Miami” The Cultural

Landscape Foundation, TCLF, Washington DC. Historic

Garden Tours of: Greynolds Park, Matheson Hammock.

“Mediterranean Revival and Classicism in the

20th Century” The Architecture of Coral Gables

Lecture Series, Feb. 5, 2013 “The George Merrick

Statue Pedestal.” Lecture and roundtable discussion.

University of Miami/ School of Architecture.

South Florida National Parks Trust Meeting

Presentation on the Design/Build Studio and Eco-tent for

Everglades National Park.

2020

2016

(09) University of Notre

Dame 2016

(08) Exhibition Announce-

ments. Foundation Pour

L’Architecture, Brussels,

Belgium. 1990

2014

2013

2012

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Dade County Chapter of the Native Plant Society Lecture

Series “The Early Architecture of Dade County’s Park System.”

Coral Gables Museum: Architecture and Design Lecture

Series “Building Close to Nature: The Early Architecture of Dade

County’s Park System.”

Villagers Annual Meeting, Coconut Grove, FL.

“Designing Close to Nature: The Architecture of Miami-Dade

County Parks.”

96th ACSA Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas.

Juried Paper City and Nature Session: “Building close to Nature:

The Early Architecture of Dade County’s Park System.”

Preserving the Modern: Building and Landscape Pres-

ervation in Miami A Contemporary Agenda Conference.

Bass Museum of Art and DoCoMoMo Florida, Jan. “Items for

a Contemporary Preservation Agenda: The Birth of Hals

and an Expanded Deﬁnition of Landscape.”

Dade Heritage Trust Speaker and panelist “Building a

Stronger Constituency for Historic Preservation in Miami” April .

ASLA/ American Society of Landscape Architects,

National Convention. Juried Paper “Tropical Renaissance doc-

umentation and Conservation Plan for the Fountain and Marine

Gardens.” October. Lecture & Field Session.

(Fig. 10)

Council for Architecture and Urbanism, Charleston, SC. “A

Documentation and Conservation Plan for the Fountain and

Marine Gardens at Vizcaya” March.

2009

Miami Dade Community College Teaching Innovations

Lecture Series “Drawing and the Education of an Architect”

January.

Miami Architecture 2004 Lecture Series Miami

Architecture Project. “Vegetation and Landscapes.” July 21.

The Deering Estate “The Documentation and Conserva-

tion of Vizcaya’s Gardens.” May.

Edison and Ford Museum, Fort Myers, FL. “Historic

Landscapes of Florida: Eight points the drawings make.”

May.

(Fig. 11)

Dade Heritage Days 2002 “Historic Landscapes of

Florida” Coral Gables Congregational Church, April 8.

The Deering Estate “Historic Landscapes of Florida: Eight

points the drawings make.” Oct.

Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach, FL.

Miami Design Alliance Lecture Series. “The Reality of Archi-

tecture’s Three Facets” Apr.

Miami Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus,

Miami, FL. Lecture Series: Recent Work. Nov.

Metro-Dade County Planning Department ,

Special Studies Division “Redland Plan.”

Homestead and Florida City Chamber of Commerce

“Redland Plan.” May.

California College of Arts & Crafts, San Francisco, CA.

“Urban Strategies for Rural Areas.” Nov.

2008

2007

2005

Lectures - Cont’d

(11) Edison and Ford

Museum exhibition

invitation.

2004

(10) ASLA Convention

proceedings book cover.

2002

2001

1996

2005

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Lectures - Cont’d

California College of Arts & Crafts, San Francisco, CA.

“Urban Strategies for Rural Areas.” Nov.

Florida International University, FIU, Miami, FL.

“The Redland Design Guide.” Feb.

University of Florida, Miami Beach Studio “The Redland Plan.”

Art Deco Weekend 1994 Lecture Series, Miami Beach

FL. “A New Plan for Redland.” Jan.

University of Miami, School of Architecture

Faculty Lunchtime Lecture Series: “Recent Work.” Feb.

Bonnet House, Fort Lauderdale, FL .

“Historic Landscapes of Florida.” Aug.

AIAS Forum 1991, Miami Beach, FL . “A History of

Representation: Michelangelo’s Campidoglio.” Nov.

The Strand Lecture Series, Miami Beach, FL.

“Ascension, Resonance and Sleep: The Florida Garden of

Frederic Law Olmstead.”

Miami Design Alliance. “Landscape in the Tropics.” Dec.

1994

1992

1991

1993

Conferences/Panels/Symposia

Social Transparency, Michael Maltzan Lecture,

Roundtable discussion, Invited panelist, University of

Miami, School of Architecture, January.

(F ig. 12)

The Art of Architecture: Hand Drawing and Design

University of Notre Dame Juried paper: “FSD: The use

of the full size drawing in the construction of Vizcaya

1913-1921” Sept. - Oct.

102nd ACSA National Conference Annual

Meeting, Miami, FL Invited Session Moderator:

“Design Research in the Studio Context” April.

Robert Winthrop Chanler Symposium, Vizcaya

Museum and Gardens October, 2014, Miami, FL.

Invited Moderator: panelists: Gina Wouters, Christine

Madrid French and Ann Loshaw. Discussion Topic:

Access and Interpretation.

2014 ACSA Fall Conference: Working Out, Halifax,

Canada juried Paper: “Looking In and Out to determine

the why, how and what of UM’s Design/Build Program.”

Oct.

(F ig . 13)

2013 ACSA Fall Conference: Subtropical Cities,

Fort Lauderdale, FL “Design Interventions for

Changing Climates.” Invited Session Moderator for:

Students and Communities Engage.

2012 ACSA Fall Conference: Philadelphia, PA.

Juried Paper: Oﬀsite/Theory and Practice of Architec-

tural Production. Paper: “Oﬀ-the-grid: Three academic

Design/Build Projects, built oﬀsite, oﬀ-the-grid and for

the public good.” Sept.

2016

(12) Panel Discussion on the

work of Michael Maltzan,

FAIA with UM/SoA

Dean Rodolphe El Koury and

Professor Rocco Ceo, AIA.

2014

(13) 2014 ACSA Fall

Conference Proceedings,

Book Cover: Working Out:

thinking While Building.

2013

Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Archi-

tectural Representation Invited panelist, University

of Miami, School of Architecture, September.

2019

2012

2019

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Conferences/Panels/Symposia - Cont’d

A+A3 Architecture Series, Miami Dade College.

“Design/Build Past and Future” Invited panelist on

current trends in the art of architecture, Oct.

“The Practicalities & Beneﬁts of Historic Preserva-

tion” The Coral Gables Museum series on Preservation

Education. Invited Panelist; with Kara Kautz, Kathleen

Slesnick, Venny Torre, Dolly McIntrye Moderator.

“Perspectives on Parks” Discussion on the future of

St. Petersburg Waterfront. Invited panelist; with Timothy

N. Clemmons, Ed Hamm, September.

Miami Modern Metropolis: Paradise and Paradox

in Mid-Century Architecture and Planning. Invited

Panelist with Alan Shulman, Jean-Francois Lejeune,

Aristides Millas, Carie Penabad, Anthony Abbate and

Respondent: Jan Niamann.

Arquitectum Miami Beach Pier Museum Internation-

al Competition Invited panelist as juror of the competition

with J.F. Lejeune, Chad Oppenheim & Rene Gonzalez.

ACSA 96th Annual Meeting: Seeking the City

Juried Paper: “Building Close to Nature: the Early

Architecture of Dade County”City and Nature, Theme

Session. March.

(F ig . 14)

Building and Landscape Preservation: A Contem-

porary Agenda, The Bass Museum and DOCOMOMO/

Florida Speaker and panelist for conference on preservation, Jan.

Education & Preservation Council Council for Archi-

tecture and Urbanism. Speaker, March.

2002 Celebration of Black History Feb. 1 – March 30

Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, FL. “A Declaration

of Place: African Inﬂuences in Vernacular Architecture

of South Florida.” Panelist with Dorothy Fields, Thelma

Gibson, Ralph Johnson, and David Burnett.

ASLA/ American Society of Landscape Architects,

National Convention. Juried paper: “Tropical

Renaissance Documentation and Conservation Plan for

the Fountain and Marine Gardens.” October. Lecture &

Field Session.

Art Deco Weekend: Historic Preservation and

Tourism in South Florida Panelist and Lecturer, Jan.

Greenways for Dade Workshop “Redland’s Future,” a

presentation at a two-day workshop at Fairchild Tropical

Garden sponsored by the Land Trust of Dade County,

Trust for Public Land, American Farmland Trust, and

Florida Dept. of Historic Preservation. April.

Environmental Summit: After Andrew; Conserva-

tion Opportunities & Challenges in South Dade.

Sponsored by The Redland Conservancy and 100

Friends of Florida Lecture: “Redland: A Preservation and

Tourism Plan.” Nov.

Cultural Tourism: Reviving Awareness. “Creating

Opportunities” Lecture on Preservation and Eco-Tourism

issues for South Dade. Sponsored by Dade Heritage

Trust. June.

ACSA Annual Meeting, Design Sessions, Charleston,

SC. Paper Session VI, “Representations,” Moderator for

session. March.

2012

2010

2009

2008

2002

1994

1993

(14)The Cover of the

Proceeding from

the Conference,

one page from the

12 Page. article.

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AIA

INVOLVEMENT

2016

2014

AIA Miami “Building Eden” ZOOM talk on recent

book on the early history of Miami-Dade County

visionary park system. August .

(Fig. 15)

AIA Miami “Parks at our Door: Planning Miami-Dade’s

21st Century Park System” Miami Center for Archi-

tecture and Design (MCAD) Invited exhibit, Jungle Floor

Drawing, Parks maps. April 2016.

AIA Miami “M-Path/GreenLink/Underline Studio

Work” Exhibition of studio work of Masterplan for 10

miles of linear park below elevated Metrorail. June /July .

AIA Miami Leadership in Education - Honor Award

For special contribution to the ﬁeld of architectural and

urban design education.

(Fig. 16)

AIA, Miami Chapter “Drawn from Miami” Miami Center

for Architecture and Design (MCAD). Juried International

exhibit. Drawings. December / February .

AIA, Miami Chapter, Meritorious Service Award

For service to the AIA Board.

(Fig. 17)

AIA Miami Chapter, Board of Directors Elected position.

2020

(17) Miami Chapter,

Meritorious Award

2004.

AIA, Miami Chapter “The Teachings, Theory and

Practice of University Professors” AIA Miami

Exhibition. May /June .

AIA, Miami Chapter University of Miami, School of

Architecture (UM/SOA), Board Representative.

AIA, Miami Chapter, Florida, National, member.

American Institute of Architects Award, Scholarship

for academic achievement.

2003

2002-03

1990-

Present

1983

2013

2004

(15) ZOOM Talk on Book,

Building Eden

(16) Miami Chapter

Leadership in

Education Award

2013.

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CIVIC INVOLVEMENT

Rocco Ceo has been a volunteer, for a number of organizations and has promoted architecture through his

pro-bono work with museums, botanical gardens, schools and through his service on Boards for not-for-prof

its, municipalities, regional and national professional organizations.

2017

Director, National Architectural Accrediting Board

(NAAB), Board of Directors, Washington DC. Chair of

Assessment & Evaluation Committee 2018-2020. One

of a team of writers for the new NAAB 2020 Conditions

and Procedures for Accreditation. AIA appointee

Volunteer, Miami Dade County Parks & Recreation

Department, Damage assessments, & disaster relief

for heritage parks, Post Hurricane Irma.

Member, Association of Collegiate Schools of

Architecture (ACSA), Governance Advisory Group,

Committee on Education.

Deputy District Oﬃcer, Historic American

Landscape Survey (HALS).

Appointed by Paul D. Dolinsky.

(Fig. 18)

Board Member, City of Coral Gables Pinewood

Cemetery Advisory Board.

Appointed by City Manager.

Pretester, National Council of Architectural Regis-

tration Boards (NCARB) for monograph: “Daylighting

Performance and Design”.

Team leader, Miami-Dade County Park & Recreation

Design Guidelines Charrette, Site Guidelines,

Tamiami Park.

2020-17

2016

2007-05

(18) HALS certicate

2007-Present

2005

2006

Director, American Institute of Architects, Miami

Chapter, Board of Directors, elected position.

Judge, Fairchild Challenge, High School student

design competition on sustainable design.

Board Member, City of Coral Gables Landscape

Advisory Board. Appointed by Commissioner Cabrera.

Co-team leader, City of Coral Gables Charrette,

Streetscape issues for Central Business District.

(Fig. 19)

Board Member, Tropical Audubon Society,

appointed. Chair of House and Grounds Committee.

Volunteer, Bicentennial Park Charrette, Designer to

look at options for waterfront park in downtown Miami.

Member, African American Hotel Selection

Committee, Miami Beach, 50 million dollar project.

Ex-Oﬃcio Member, Miami Beach Convention Center

Hotel Selection Committee, 150 million dollar project.

Member, Dade Heritage Trust, Grants selection

committee.

Director, The Architectural Club of Miami, Cultural

board producing a county wide lecture series on

architecture.

Visiting Committee, Design and Architecture Senior

High (DASH). To evaluate direction of different programs.

2004-03

2001-1999

2000

2003-02

2001

1999

1996-94

(19) City of Coral Gables

Charrette 2001

1993

1994-91

1995-93

2004

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Fellowship Application 2021

ARCHITECTURAL

EDUCATION AWARDS

(20) Award letter for

furniture design of

naturalist table. “Con-

gratulations to you, your

staff and all those who

worked on this project. You

have received the jury’s

recognition and made a

signicant contribution to

the world of design”

-Chee Pearlman, Editor ID

magazine.

Miami-Dade County Certiﬁcate of Recognition

for GreenLink Initiative April 29, 2014, presented by

the Deputy Mayor Alina Hudak from Commissioner

Rebeca Sosa & Mayor Carlos Gimenez.

AIA/ American Institute of Architects, Miami

Chapter Honor Award: Leader in Education. For: a

special contribution to the ﬁeld of architectural or urban

design education.

American Collegiate Schools of Architecture /ACSA

1998 Wood Council Competition Faculty Sponsor/

Critic, Student: Jason Corbin Open Submissions

Category: A research Station for Pigeon Key, First Place.

ACSA 1996 Wood Council Competition

Faculty Sponsor/Critic, Student: Yvonne Bianchini

Open Submissions Category: Museum of the

Everglades, Everglades City FL.

AutoDesk/Special Merit Award, Award for innovative

use of computer in education and research, For

computer animation of Michelangelo’s Laurentian

Library, Student: Richard Hubacker.

Excellence in Teaching Nomination and Certificate

University of Miami.

University of Miami, Freshman Teaching Award

One of seven faculty, University wide honor.

Woodrow Wilkins Award for Outstanding Teaching,

School of Architecture UM SOA.

2014

2013

1998

1993

1991

ARCHITECTURAL

DESIGN AWARDS

Architizer A+Awards People’s Choice Award 2019:

University of Miami, Miller BuildLab, products.

Florida Trust for Historic Preservation Award

For Outstanding Achievement in Restoration and

Rehabilitation. Project: Ransom Cottage.

Dade Heritage Trust 2002 Preservation Award

One of eight projects in Dade County chosen for

recognition. Project: Ransom Cottage.

American Planning Association Award / APA

For participation in Coral Gables Planning Charrette.

Florida Trust for Historic Preservation Award

Outstanding Achievement for Preservation Education/

Media. Book: Historic Landscapes of Florida.

P/A Progressive Architecture Award, Urban

Design, First Place International competition award for:

“Redland: A Preservation and Tourism Plan.”

(Fig. 21)

Florida Trust for Historic Preservation/Honor Award

A state award for Preservation/Education media.

I.D. Annual Design Review Honorable Mention

In juried International Design Review. Furniture Design

Competition, Naturalist Table.

(Fig. 20)

A New American Green, Olympia Fields competition

A proposal for a new American green, published and

exhibited, w/ M. Nardi, J. Lombard.

2020

2003

2002

1995

1994

1993

1992

(21) Award Letter. From

42nd P/A Awards. One

of 19 awards from 504

Entries.

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2.2 Honors Awards Recognition

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SERVICE AWARDS

NAAB Certiﬁcate of Appreciation For Service to the

NAAB on the Accreditation Review Forum 2019 Task

Force.

(Fig. 22)

University of Miami Commencement, Grand Marshall.

Grand Marshall for 2016 University Commencement,

Vice-Provost’s appointment.

ASLA/ American Society of Landscape Architects,

Florida Award of Recognition Award for dedicated

service to the profession of Landscape Architecture & the

American Society of Landscape Architects.

(Fig. 23)

Florida Council of Garden Clubs - Outstanding

Citizen Award Awarded annually for “Distinguished

Achievement” Merrick Monument.

AIA/ American Institute of Architects, Miami

Chapter, Meritorious Service Award, for service to the

AIA Board.

Vice President’s Award for Outstanding Service

University of Miami.

2019

2016

2009

2004

1993

2007

OTHER RECOGNITION

Miami Dade Public Library Artist Residency

Artist/Architect Residency October 2016- September 2017

Flat Land Exhibition September 16, 2017 –January 1, 2018.

CPSA 24th Annual International Drawing

Competition, Tacoma, Washington The Dixon

Ticonderoga Award for Exceptional Merit (2nd

highest award out of 119 juried drawings, over 500

entries) Drawing: “5 O’clock.”

(Fig. 24)

2017

(22) NAAB Certicate

for Task Force work for

Architectural Accreditation.

(24) Drawing: “5 O’clock” by Rocco Ceo.

(23) ASLA Award for

dedicated service to

the profession.

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BOOKS

BY ROCCO CEO

2018 Building Eden:

The Beginning of Miami-Dade

County’s Visionary Park

System. Publisher: Pineapple

Press/ Rowman & Littleﬁeld-

Book: 152 pages, Editor and

principal author.

2018 UM SOA Design/

Build: 9 Projects. Publisher:

University of Miami, School of

Architecture, Principle author,

w/ Jim Adamson. Editor Joanna

Lombard. Catalogue of built

work: 63 pages.

2015 Natural Acts/ Rocco

Ceo. Exhibition Catalogue,

Author. Curators: Rocco Ceo

Veruska Vasconez, & Phillippe

Bonnery. Catalogue Designers:

Veruska Vasconez & Phillippe

Bonnery. 102 pages. Meeting-

house. Self published.

2001 Historic Landscapes

of Florida. Publisher: Deering

Foundation & University of

Miami. Book: 135 pages, author,

coauthor: Joanna Lombard,

Distributed by UPF Press.

1993 Redland: A Preser-

vation and Tourism Plan.

Publisher: Knight Foundation

Book: 120 pages. Editor and

Principal Author.

2018 Ceo, Rocco, “On Repre-

sentation” Chapter 2, 84-87 and

selected works 94-95. 2018 Trans-

formations in Classical Architec-

ture/New Directions in Research

and Practice Editor: Victor Deupi.

Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Book

chapter, 411 Pages.

BOOK CHAPTERS

BY ROCCO CEO

2018 What’s Out There Miami,

guidebook. The Cultural Landscape

Foundation, Washington, DC, 2014,

54 pages. Photos for Pages 23, 45.

2008 Ceo, Rocco, Jose

Grave de Peralta. Drawing

from Casts: The Plaster Cast

Collection at the University

of Miami. Published by the

University of Miami School of

Architecture. Pgs. 10-15.

2009 Miami Modern Metropolis:

Paradise and Paradox in

Midcentury Architecture and

Planning. Publisher: Balcony Press

& Bass Museum of Art, Book:

413 pages. Contributing author for

three essays: Ceo, Rocco. “Key

Biscayne: From Tropical Frontier

to Suburban Paradise.” Co-author

J.F. Lejeune.“Privileged Views and

Underwater Antics: Swimming

Pools, Diving Towers and Cabana

Colonies.” Co-author Allan T.

Shulman. Ceo, Rocco. “Civilizing

The Tropics: Miami’s Park System.

2013 The New Civic Art:

Elements of Town Planning.

Book, Publisher: Rizzoli. 416

pages. Contributing Author,

Editor: Andres Duany, Elizabeth

Plater- Zyberk & Robert

Aliminana.

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2002 The Living Traditions of

Coconut Grove: The Work of the

University of Miami Initiative for

Urban and Social Ecology (Inuse).

“The Theodore R. Gibson School”

pages 82-87. Contributing author

Publisher: University of Miami,

Inuse. 100 pages, Jan.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

BY ROCCO CEO

2014 Ceo, Rocco. “Design Build as Extension: Looking

in and Out to Determine the Why, What and How of

University of Miami’s Design Build Program.” Working

Out: Thinking While Building, 2014 ACSA Fall

Conference Proceedings, pages 244-251, Juried,

ACSA Press, New York & Washington.

2012 Ceo, Rocco. “Oﬀ-the grid: Three Academic Design/

Build projects, built oﬀsite, 2012 Oﬀ-the-grid and for the

public good.” Oﬀsite/Theory and Practice of Archi-

tectural Production, 2012 ACSA Fall Conference

Proceedings Juried, ACSA Press, Philadelphia, PA.

2012 Ceo, Rocco. “Building Close to Nature: The

Early Architecture of Dade County’s Park System.”

Seeking the City: Visionaries on the Margins, 96th

Annual Meeting Juried, ACSA Press, Washington,

DC 2008, Pgs.263-274.

BOOK CHAPTERS

BY ROCCO CEO

- Cont’d

2005 Ceo, Rocco. “Tropical Renaissance: Docu-

mentation and Conservation Plan for the Fountain

Garden and Marine Garden at Vizcaya.”

2005 ASLA Speaker Handbook. (2005)

BOOKS ABOUT

ROCCO CEO’S WORK

2016 Design/Build with Jersey

Devil: A handbook for Education

and Practice By Charlie Hailey, New

York, Princeton Architectural Press,

Book 2016, 166 pages Toolbox: 04,

19-20, 24-27, 31-32, 39-40, 48-49,

62-66, 78, 82-84, 86-91. Process:

1-12, 15-18, 24, about Method:

33-35, 51-54, 58-59, 79, 82, 83, 89,

91, 97, 99, 111, 112.

2014 Architectural Capriccio, editor Lucien Steil,

Citation, Book, Ashgate Press , Book: 474 pages

Drawing: Baobab Seed, Essay: Magic Realism in

Miami, By Javier Cenicacelaya.

2001 Gestaltungslehren in der

Architektenausbildung, By Petra

Liebl-Osborne, Book 592 pages.

Peter Lang Publisher, Frankfurt,

Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford,

Wien.Pages 338-339, Everglades

City Studio Work. Teaching

Methodology of Rocco Ceo.

1997 Coral Gables: An American Garden City,

Publisher: Norma Editions, Paris, France. Book. Map of

Coral Gables by Rocco Ceo, Maria Nardi, Kevin Young.

1997 Between Two Towers,

By Vincent Scully, Catherine Lyn.

Jorge Hernandez, Teoﬁlo Victoria.

Publisher: Monacelli Press, Book,

Drawings, My contribution to repre-

sentation at the University of Miami.

1993 Miami Architecture of The

Tropics Publisher: Princeton Archi-

tectural Press. Book, pgs. 54, 184.

Tropical trees, projects and credit

for organizing traveling exhibition.

PUBLICATIONS

ABOUT ROCCO CEO’S DRAWINGS

2017 “In Miami, A Flatland Exhibition” Architects and

Artisans Exhibit Review by Michael Welton.

2017 “Flatland: A conversation with the artists”

PBS Video Interview, By Videographer: Manny Estrella.

2017 ‘To the Point’ CPSA Publication January. Vol.

26, No. 1, page 21: 5 O’clock Drawing.

2014 “Miami turns up the Heat” The Architect’s

Newspaper, “Drawn From Miami.”

By Alexandra Pucciarelli, review of exhibition.

2014 “An academic exercise – and more”

Miami Herald, Call to Action, page 17A, M-Path

project, 04.05.2014 By Rocco Ceo

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2009 The Classicist: Journal of the Institute, No. 8

New York Academy of Art. From the Academies: student

work from color theory, K. Pasternack.

2007 The Classicist: Journal of the Institute, No. 7

Juried. Institute for the Study of Classical Archi-

tecture at the New York Academy of Art. From the

Academies: Vizcaya Documentation, pages 89-90

2004 Traditional Building. Vol. 17. No. 02, March/April

2004, Pg 6,8,10, 11. Kathleen Randall.

2004 Miami Magazine “High Visibility; Art and Ar-

chitecture show oﬀ during Art Basel.” pg. 06, Spring,

Meredith Danton.

2004 Ceo, Rocco, Frank Matero, and Gregory

Saldana. “Documentation of Historic and Existing

Conditions with Recommendations for Conserva-

tion Planning: Vizcaya Museum and Garden Miami,

Florida.” Report. 470 pages. Vol. 1-3, Ceo Vol. 1, pages

49-108, Vol. 3 pages 371-399.

2002 Miami Herald, pages 1M, 3M. Arts in South

Florida Section, by Elisa Turner, July 14, ‘O’ Overlook

Project.

PUBLICATIONS ABOUT

ROCCO CEO’S DRAWINGS

- Cont’d

1997 The Classicist: Journal of the Institute No. 4.,

Juried. The Institute for the Study of Classical Architec-

ture at the New York. Academy of Art. Page 69.

Course work on Michelangelo.

1995 “Welcome to Miami” By Marisa Bartolucci

Metropolis, pgs. 47, 54, 80-81, 90. “The University of

Miami’s Architectural Curriculum is Real Life.” Michael

Webb.

1994 “Green Mansions” Sun-Sentinel – Lifestyles

Section pgs. 1 & 6. Project: Tropical tree drawings Margot

Harakas

1994 “UM reconstructs Michelangelo: Students

showcase ten-year-old collection” Coral Gables

Gazette, pages 1, A5 March 21-27.

1994 “Michelangelo’s Laurentian Library – In 3D”

AutoDesk Education Directory Catalogue, pgs 4-5.

1993. Special merit Recipient for creative and innovative ap-

plications . Of computer software in education and research.

1993 The 39th Annual Design Review I.D. Magazine

Juried. Honorable Mention in Furniture category, July,

pg.163. Naturalist Table.

1992 “Furnishing Creativity: Designers Bring Vivid

Imagination to Show” Sun-Sentinel, Arts & Leisure

Section, Oct. 25. Roberta Klein.

1992 “Architecture on a Smaller Scale” Miami Herald,

Home & Design Section, Oct. 18. Beth Dunlop

1991 “Drawings Show How Dreams Become Building”

Miami Herald, Exhibition review Jan. Beth Dunlop.

1991 “Architecture: Inspiration and Craft” Catalogue

of architectural works exhibited at the North Miami

Center for Contemporary Art. 1991.

PUBLICATIONS ABOUT

ROCCO CEO’S PROJECTS

1995 Ceo, Rocco, “From Grove to City”

Stadt Bauwelt, March, pgs. 647-649, Vol. 12, No. 125.

MASTERPLAN/BOOK: REDLAND: A PRESERVATION

& TOURISM PLAN (see Exhibit 3.7)

PUBLICATIONS FOR INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS NOT

LISTED IN THIS SECTION, FOLLOW EACH EXHIBIT

IN SECTION 3.

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ROCCO CEO’S PROJECTS

- Cont’d

1995 “Dade Farmers Worry as Urbanism Creeps in

From All Sides.” Miami Today, Jan. pg. 17. Laura Irwin

1995 “Rescuing the Redland” Landscape Architecture,

pgs. 46-48, Vol. 85, No. 4. Beth Dunlop

1995 P/A Progressive Architecture, Penton publica-

tions, pgs. 57-59, 76-79. Juried. Urban Design Award:

American Architecture – 42nd Annual P/A Awards.

Project: Redland Preservation and Tourism Plan.

1994 “Plans to Preserve Redland Triggers Unease in

Area’s Sparse Population.” Miami Today, Aug. 4, 1994,

pg. 23, Chris Crabtree.

1994 “Strawberries vs. Suburbia: The Redland

Ponders Future” Miami Herald, front page Jul. By Peter

Whoriskey, pgs. 1A, 32A.

1994 “Revitalizing an Agricultural District” Architectural

Record, Infrastructure Issue, June. By Beth Dunlop, pgs.

40-41, Drawings and photographs.

1994 “The Redland Plan: An Opportunity for Preserva-

tion.” Preservation Today, June pgs. 4-9. Cory Gittner.

1994 “The Road to Redland” Miami Magazine, Vol. 2,

No. 2 summer. Susan May, pgs. 14-17 (cover story)

1994 “Trusts Preservation Awards Given” Miami Herald,

home and design section May, Jo Werne, pg. 4G

1994 “Farms You Won’t Believe” Miami Herald, Tropic

Section, May, Meg Laughlin, pgs. 6-13.

1993 “Saving the Redland from Man and Nature” Miami

Herald, Arts Section, Nov. Beth Dunlop, pgs. 1i, 7i.

“Conservationists Promote Agri-Tourism in S. Dade.”

1993 “Perspectives/Blown Away” P/A Progressive Ar-

chitecture, Penton publications, June/July pgs. 124-127.

Consultant for article on historic buildings and

landscapes.

1993 BR, Building Renovation, Penton publications,

Jan. /Feb. pgs. 47-50. Consultant for article on historic

buildings and landscapes in the wake of Hurricane

Andrew. Published photographs.

1993 Miami Herald, Neighbors Section, Oscar Musibay,

pg. 1. “A natural, Landscapes Getting Their Historical

Due”

1993 Miami Herald, Home and Design Section Aug.

Georgia Tasker, pgs. 1G, 4G.

1993 “Rebuilding Community: The Next Step” Miami

Herald, Home and Design Section, Apr. Beth Dunlop,

pgs. 1B, 4B.

1993 “Architecture: South Florida takes tentative steps

toward becoming a world-class region.” Miami Herald,

Critiquing. Beth Dunlop.

1992 “New South Dade Plan Keeps Area’s Character” Miami

Herald, Local Section, Nov. Beth Dunlop, pgs. 1B, 4B.

1992 “A blueprint that makes sense: A collabora-

tive vision for rebuilding South Dade” Miami Herald,

Viewpoint Section, Nov. Beth Dunlop, pgs. 1M, 4M.

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PUBLICATIONS ABOUT

ROCCO CEO’S PROJECTS

- Cont’d

PROJECT: UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, SCHOOL OF

ARCHITECTURE (UM/SOA), DESIGN/BUILD STUDIO

(see Exhibit 3.10)

PUBLICATIONS FOR INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS NOT

LISTED IN THIS SECTION FOLLOW EACH EXHIBIT

IN SECTION 3.

2020 “New Lifeguard Station built at Homestead Bayfront

Park” Calle Ocho News, June, Brianna Lopez

2020 “UM Students design and build Homestead

lifeguard station” Miami Today, week of Thursday June,

pg. 13. Miamitodaypaper.com. Abraham Galvan

2019 Design/Build 3 part video series on: www.

YouTube.com. Part 1: drawings and Presentations. Part

2: Design Inﬂuences. Part 3: ﬁnishing touches and Site

Delivery UM Production coordinator: Wise Clairvoyant,

narrator: Andrew Clum.

2016 Design/Build with Jersey Devil: A Handbook for

Education and Practice. By Charlie Hailey, New York,

Princeton Architectural Press, Book, 166 pages.

Features work of UM/SOA Design/Build program of Jim

Adamson & Rocco Ceo. Toolbox: 04, 19-20, 24-27, 31-32,

39-40, 43, 48-49, 62-66,78, 82-84, 86-91. Process: 11-12,

15-18, 24, About method: 33-35, 51-54, 58-59, 79, 82, 83,

89, 91, 97, 99, 111, 112.

2014 Ceo, Rocco. “Design Build as Extension: Looking

in and Out to Determine the Why, What and How of

University of Miami’s Design Build Program.” Working

Out: Thinking While Building, 2014 ACSA Fall

Conference Proceedings, pages 244-251, Juried, ACSA

Press, New York & Washington.

2013 “Camping adventures: Gimmie Shelter, new

Ec o-Tent The News-Press, Fort Myers, Fl, April, pgs. 1-2.

Laura Ruane.

2013 Miami Magazine University of Miami Journal,

spring, “Living Green, Eco Park” Report on Eco-tent

Design/Build Studio, pg. 27.

2013 Architectural Products/ September Product:

Fabrics, “Creating housing in the Everglades.” Mavis

Linnemann, pg. 84.

2013 “Eco-Tent for the Everglades” In Tents, April,

Review .

2019 Ceo, Rocco w/ Jim Adamson UM SOA Design/

Build: 9 Projects. University of Miami, School of Archi-

tecture, catalogue, 63 pages. Principle author, text. Editor

Joanna Lombard.

2019 Ceo, Rocco w/ Jim Adamson UM SOA Design/

Build: 9 Projects. University of Miami, School of Archi-

tecture, catalogue, 63 pages. Principle author, text. Editor

Joanna Lombard.

2018 “Weatherproof Learning” B.E & W.R. Miller

Buildlab allows architecture students to work even in

inclement weather. Veritas. Robert Jones.

2018 B.E. & W.R. Miller BuildLab University of Miami

Inside Kebony (/us/inside-kebony) Kebony Product

write-up featuring design and use of Kebony wood.

2015 “Design and Build Studio Students create Kiosk

for UM School of Architecture” E-Veritas, University of

Miami, pgs. 1-2, March.

2017 “Everglades lodging, gone since 2005, coming

back” Miami Herald, page 6A, June, Jenny Staletovich.

2015 “Eco-tents might replace old lodge” Miami Herald,

page 1B, 7B, July, Jenny Staletovich.

2015 “Kiosk provides caﬀeine ﬁx for long studio nights”

Miami Hurricane, First Impression, Summer, page11

Isabella Cueto.

1992 “In Search of the Hurricane Proof House” Miami

Herald, Tropic Section, Oct. Beth Dunlop, pgs. 10-20.

1992 “Andrew Makes South Dade’s Oldest Buildings

History” Miami Herald, Local Section, Sep. Charles

Strouse, pgs. 1B/2B.

1992 “Saving History” Miami Herald, Home & Design

Section Oct. Beth Dunlop, pgs. 1C, 8C-11C.

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OTHERS

2011 The Cashiers Chronicle Cashiers, North Carolina,

project for a park. “Diagnostics. Hurricane Damage.”

2011 First Impressions, The Miami Hurricane,

Summer 2011, page 17 Cristian Benavides

2011 The New-Press, Tropicalia, pages 10-12

Miscellenia Section, by Miriam Pereira “Gables beautiﬁ-

cation plan returns to past.”

2003 Better Cities and Towns, New Urban News

Langdon, Philip, Book Review: “The New Civic Art:

Elements of Town Planning,” December 2003.

1998 Studio Works 6 Harvard University, Graduate

School of Design c. 1998. Students work from the Fall core

studio.

1998 ArchiTalk Radio: The ‘Future’ of Architecture,

radio interview. Host: Sebastian Eilert & Jane Lanahan.

2012 “Great Price Oﬀered for a Waterfront View at

Flamingo Campground” Miami Herald, Sunday, Dec.

Susan Cocking, review.

2012 “For Rent One Way-Cool Tent. ” Sun-Sentinel,

South Florida, pages, 1A, 19A, Dec. By Michael Clary,

review.

2012 “Everglades National Park to try Moveable

“Eco-Tents” For Flamingo Area Lodging” National Parks

Traveler, pages 1-3, Dec. Kurt Repanshek, review.

2012 “University of Miami Helps Design “Eco-tent” for

Everglades National Park.” South Florida Business

Journal, Thursday, Dec. Paul Brinkmann, review.

2012 “Creating Eco-Friendly Digs for the Everglades”

Veritas, feature article, April. Robert C. Jones Jr. Photos:

Barbara Gutierrez “Students get their hands dirty in

Design/Build class.”

2011 Miami Magazine University of Miami Journal:

“Building Organic Movement” Report of Design/Build

project, pg. 7.

2013 “Eco-tent debuts at Everglades’ campground” Our

National Parks, Journalism Program Feature Writing

Project, UM By Mattan Comay, University of Miami,

School of Communication, posted March. Pgs. 1-3.

2013 “Gifts to Enhance Workspace for School of

Architecture’s Design-Build Studio” E-Veritas, Canes in

the Community, University of Miami, pgs. 1-6, March,

Robert Jones.

2013 “Everglades Eco-Tent design a prototype for use in

extreme conditions” Casual Living, review

2012 Ceo, Rocco. “Oﬀ-the grid: Three Academic

Design/Build projects, built oﬀsite, Oﬀ-the-grid and

for the public good.” Oﬀsite/Theory and Practice of

Architectural Production, 2012 ACSA Fall Conference

Proceedings, Juried, ACSA Press, Philadelphia, PA.

2012 UM/SOA Design Build Program Documentary

Film, interviewed about Eco-tent Design/Build project,

Filmmaker: Krisstian De Lara.

2012 “Diﬀerent Digs” E-Veritas, Canes in the

Community, University of Miami. By Robert Jones

2012 “Eco –Tent to be tested at Flamingo in Everglades

National park” The Palm Beach Post, Dec. Willie

Howard, review.

2012 “Great Price Oﬀered for a Waterfront View at

Flamingo Campground” Miami Herald, Sunday, Dec.

Susan Cocking, review.

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EXHIBITS LIST

Conserving Tropical Landscapes

3.1 Book: Building Eden: The Beginning of Miami-Dade County’s

Visionary Park System, 2018

3.2 Fennell’s Orchid Jungle,

HALS/FL-4 Documentation, 2009

3.3 Vizcaya Gardens Documentation &

Materials Assessment, Getty Institute, 2003

3.4 Book: Historic Landscapes of Florida, 2000

Preserving Seminal Buildings

3.5 Merrick Monument, 2006

3.6 1908 Paul C. Ransom Cottage Restoration, 2000

3.7 Redland: A Preservation & Tourism Plan, 1993

Building Livable Communities

3.8 B.E. & W.R. Miller Buildlab, 2018

3.9 M-Path, GreenLink, Underline Masterplan, 2014

3.10 UM/SOA Design/Build Program, 2009 - present

3. Exhibits

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The Challenge

Initiated during the depression and after the

devastating Hurricane of 1926, Miami-Dade County’s park

system is a remarkable story of creative and enterprising

individuals who built the third largest park system in the

country from donated land, roadside ‘borrow pits’ and

government labor. Adrian Douglas Barnes; Park Superin-

tendent, William Lyman Phillips; Landscape Architect, and

Charles Crandon; County Commissioner, collaborated

to build a park system from labor funded primarily from

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal program by creating

a winter camp for the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC).

Launched between 1929 and 1939 to ensure public access

to the waterfront, the ﬂedgling park system was designed to

rescue what remained of an Eden that was rapidly yielding

to speculative development and ‘tin-can tourism.’ The

story is compelling and, except for an in-house publication

written in 1986 by park’s ﬁrst employee, A.D. Barnes, it has

not yet been told. Today the Heritage Parks built during the

CCC era are under increased pressure to house incom-

patible development. The challenge was to document and

research the Heritage Parks to develop a history of their

origins, a visualization to encourage advocacy for their

preservation, and to provide a foundation for future park

management decision-making

Nominees Role

Rocco led studios to research and study the

parks, and through on-site, hand drawings, documented

signiﬁcant landscape and architectural features. Serving

as the principle investigator on two research grants to fund

this work, Rocco wrote three essays for the book including

the conclusion, edited the contemporary essays and

identiﬁed the archival texts and images discovered and

selected for this project.

The Outcome

The book has been instrumental in bringing

forward the park system’s origins to the Miami-Dade County

Parks staﬀ who are charged with guiding parks planning,

management and operations. The book has preserved

institutional history of the parks department and has become

an active document during its production as a resource

and guide for the park systems team’s production of the

award-winning Miami-Dade County Parks and Open Space

Master Plan and their Design Guidelines for new construc-

tion. The project was funded by grants from Miami-Dade

County Parks & Recreation ($60,000.) and the James

Deering Danielson Foundation ($25,000.). All proceeds

from the sale of the book go to the Parks Foundation of

Miami-Dade a 501(c)3 organization.

3.1

Project: Book: BUILDING EDEN, THE BEGINNING OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY’S VISIONARY PARK SYSTEM.

Architecture Firm of record: N/A

Design Firm: N/A

Completion Date: 2018

Top: Civilian Conservation Corps

(CCC) workers building ‘oolitic’ rock wall at

Matheson Hammock Park 1936. Bottom:

Building Eden Book Cover.

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Publications:

Building Eden: The Beginning of Miami-Dade County’s

Visionary Park System Publisher: Pineapple Press/

Rowman & Littleﬁeld. Book: 152 pages, Editor and principal

author. C.2018

Exhibit:

“Parks at our Door: Planning Miami-Dade’s 21st Century Park

System” MCAD Miami Center for Architecture and Design.

Invited exhibit, April, 2016, Jungle Floor Drawing, Parks maps.

Charrette:

Miami-Dade County Park & Recreation Parks Design

Guidelines Charrette

Presentation on Heritage Parks, Team Architect for Site

Guidelines, Tamiami Park, 2005

Left: CCC workers

quarrying ‘oolitic’ limestone at Matheson

Hammock 1936. Right: Map of

Miami-Dade County Park System.

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Declaration of Responsibility

I have personal knowledge of the nominee’s responsibili-

ty for the exhibit listed above. That responsibility included:

Other: The nominee was responsible for the production of

the book, including: research, writing 3 of 9 chapters, the

conclusion, and editing.

Maria Nardi

Director, Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation & Open Spaces

Client for the Book

The Challenge

The Historic American Landscape Survey (HALS)

was initiated in 2000 as a complement to the Historic

American Building Survey (HABS) and Historic American

Engineering Record (HAER) programs. By 2009, with

many signiﬁcant sites in South Florida undocumented and

only 3 sites listed in the HALS archive, the challenge was

to document one of Miami-Dade County’s most important

natural areas, then known as Fennell’s Orchid Jungle and

today as the Hattie Bauer Preserve. The natural hardwood

hammock is home to some of the country’s oldest archeo-

logical remains and is a seminal site in the history of orchid

propagation in the United States. Miami-Dade County

Parks & Recreation (MDCPR) and the Department of En-

vironmental Resources Management (DERM) requested

assistance in documentation of the site, given its complexity

and the need for unique and speciﬁc expertise in the docu-

mentation of a dense, jungle landscape.

In addition to its botanic value, the people

associated with the site are notable ﬁgures in South

Florida’s horticultural history. Lee A. Fennell, an orchid

enthusiast from Cynthiana, Kentucky, moved his family to

South Florida in 1922 because he was seeking the best

climate in the US for the propagation of orchids. He soon

found the ideal landscape in what was then southern Dade

County. By 1923 people were visiting his site to revel in the

rare and beautiful orchids and their idyllic setting.

The challenge was to educate a team of archi-

tecture students to be able to engage survey methods in

the dense jungle landscape, locate all of the buildings and

over 400 trees and plants, and develop the drawings to

HALS documentation standards. The goal for this work

was twofold: to submit documentation to the US Library

of Congress as permanent archival reference material on

one of South Florida’s leading cultural landscapes, and

to submit the work to MDCPR to provide a context and

foundation for future decision-making on the site’s conser-

vation and programming.

Nominees Role

The University of Miami, School of Architecture

documentation team of seven students was led by Rocco

who served as documentation coordinator and historian

for the Historic American Landscape Survey or HALS/

FL program. The work involved drawn and photographic

documentation of the site from January 21, 2009 – May 6,

2009 followed by a written history of the site and its architec-

ture for submission to the Library of Congress HALS (LOC/

HALS) Program.

3.2

Left: Lee Fennell in one of his

Orchid Slat Houses 1920s. Right: HALS title

sheet showing site evolution

Project: FENNEL’S ORCHID JUNGLE, HALS/FL-4 DOCUMENTATION

Architecture Firm of Record: N/A

Design Firm: N/A

Completion Date: 2009

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The Outcome

The Field Notes, ﬁnal drawings and history were

accepted by the LOC/HALS program and now are available

to the public on the LOC/HALS “Built in America” website. This

documentation project has provided a measurable inventory

of the site’s most important features, as well as a visual rep-

resentation and narrative that describes the evolution of the

site’s built and natural features throughout the Fennell family’s

tenure. This work also has enabled the MDCPD and DERM

to access the site’s history as well as its physical and cultural

dimensions as a foundation for conservation and planning.

Award:

ASLA/ American Society of Landscape Architects,

Florida Award of Recognition. Award for dedicated service

to the profession of Landscape Architecture & the American

Society of Landscape Architects, 2009

Publication:

Library of Congress. Call Number/ Physical Location: HALS/

FL-4. Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Division Washington, DC 20540 USA

Control Number: f10700

HALS drawings of site plan locating

all buildings and trees with photographs

showing solution hole.

Declaration of Responsibility

I have personal knowledge of the nominee’s responsibility for

the exhibit above. That Responsibility included: Other: Project

direction, writing of history and submission to the Library of

Congress HALS Program.

Jack Kardys

Former Director, Miami-Dade County Parks,

Recreation and Open Spaces.

Client

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3.3

Left: Documental drawing of

formal gardens west of Villa. Right: View

toward villa from Marine Garden during

construction c. 1920s.

The Challenge

The Getty Foundation awarded our team a $42,000.

grant in 2003 to document, assess and recommend protocols

and projects for the conservation of Vizcaya, the 43-acre, early

twentieth-century estate of James Deering. Our work was part

of a team of three professionals including Gregory Saldana who

documented aspects of the villa, and Frank Matero whose firm

assessed the material condition of the artifacts, to provide recom-

mendations on conservation work in the garden. The Matero work

relied on the drawn and photographic documentation of our team

as the foundation for their analysis and recommendations.

After its celebrated 1916 opening, Vizcaya and its

Italianate formal gardens, withstood the seasonal impacts

endemic to its location fronting Miami’s Biscayne Bay. The

prevailing winds that brought the healthful salt-laden seaward

breezes through its courtyards also conducted the more

dangerously accelerated winds and high waters of tropical

storms major hurricanes. To provide the villa with the vast

prospect of the bay waters and Atlantic Ocean beyond,

architect F. Burrall Hoﬀman (1882-1980) placed the estate at

the very edge of Biscayne Bay.

While retaining a fringe of coastal mangrove along

their eastern edge, Diego Suarez (1888-1974) positioned the

gardens at sea level, below the protection of the elevated

rockland hammock. The challenge was to document the

outer garden’s landscape and built features during the humid

months of summer when the estate is less visited, as even the

most intrepid of tourists hesitates to venture into the hot, humid,

mosquito-laden summers of this tropical estate.

Nominees Role

To research, document and assess Villa Vizcaya’s

formal gardens, sculpture and architecture, Rocco led

a team of four delineators to produce a complete docu-

mentation of the site. The team produced more than 120

hand-drawn and measured ﬁeld notes, and nine 30”x 60”

ink-on-mylar sheets using digital and hand drawn-tech-

niques. The drawings then provided the foundation for the

materials assessment team to assist with the mapping of

stone and metal surfaces in the Marine and Rose Gardens.

This mapping was essential to their ability to analyze the

extent of damage to the integrity of the historic fabric from

nearly 100 years of weather and use impacts, as well as

identify and assess the positive/negative value of conserva-

tion eﬀorts of earlier eras.

The Outcome

The ﬁnal report enabled the Trust to identify

priorities based on material conditions and to secure funds

for conservation work, while also acting as a guide and

resource for conservators working on the site’s sculpture,

landscape, and other built features. Further, Vizcaya staﬀ

utilized the research to develop an interpretive history of the

site. The team’s narrative report on the history also provides

a resource for future researchers and conservators to

experience the larger context of construction and evolution

of the estate as ideas formed on paper met the realities of

the tropical site, illuminating the interactions of formal design

concepts interacting with a subtropical climate, geography,

and entirely new palette of materials.

Project: VIZCAYA DOCUMENTATION AND CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT,

VIZCAYA MUSEUM & GARDENS AND THE VIZCAYA TRUST

Architecture Firm of Record: Rocco Ceo, AIA

Design Firm: N/A

Completion Date: 2003

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Publications:

The Classicist: Journal of the Institute, No. 7 Juried.

Institute for the Study of Classical Architecture at the New

York Academy of Art. From the Academies: Vizcaya Docu-

mentation, pages 89-90, 2007.

Ceo, Rocco. “Tropical Renaissance: Documenta-

tion and Conservation Plan for the Fountain Garden

and Marine Garden at Vizcaya.” 2005 ASLA Speaker

Handbook, 2005.

“Inspired Gardens”

The Victory Garden. WGBH television series.

Appearance on show for Vizcaya Garden and Museum,

March, 2004. Michael Weishan Host. “Unique Project

Provides a Survey of Historic Landscapes of Florida”

Report:

Ceo, Rocco, Frank Matero, and Gregory Saldana. “Doc-

umentation of Historic and Existing Conditions

with Recommendations for Conservation Planning:

Vizcaya Museum and Garden Miami, Florida.” Report.

470 pages. Vol. 1-3, (2004) Ceo Vol. 1, pages 49-108, Vol. 3

pages 371-399.

Left: Documental drawing of Elevation

of Marine Garden Bridge with details of site

sculptural features. Right: Plan of Rose Garden

with details of oolitic rock obelisks anking

entrance to the garden.

Declaration of Responsibility

I have personal knowledge of the nominee’s responsibility for

the exhibit listed above. That responsibility included : That the

nominee’s ﬁrm executed the project.

Joel Hoﬀman, Phd

Executive Director/CEO,

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

Client

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3.4

Challenge

“This work is the result of nearly ten years of active

study on the part of more than one hundred University of

Miami students as well as many people associated with the

landscapes, libraries and archives of Florida.”

Through design studios and seminars, Florida’s

historic landscapes were researched and drawn to produce

measurable representations of notable landscapes threatened

by intrusive development or neglect. The large format of

hand-drawings illustrated the salient features of each landscape

in an manner designed to achieve the greatest possible level of

accessibility to enthusiasts, students, scholars, professionals,

and individuals who may never have paid attention previously.

The drawings were accompanied by archival research on

each site, photographic documentation, and analysis that for

the ﬁrst time produced a comprehensive narrative of Florida’s

iconic landscapes. Co-authored with Joanna Lombard, Historic

Landscape of Florida was the ﬁrst book to identify and assemble

in drawings and text, a collection of Florida’s historic, designed

landscapes and supporting architecture, providing a model

for future studies in cultural landscape documentation and an

exemplar through its impact.

Nominees Role

Rocco developed and taught a drawing technique that

integrated scaled plan views with elevations of the landscape folded

back from the plan. Drawn by hand using ink on mylar, the students

learned how to convey form and texture, growing patterns and

spatial qualities of the landscapes in a manner that complemented

photographic documentation. This novel technique is described

in Rocco’s essay, Representation as Exploration (2001, 4-6). An

example of the technique in whole and detail form can be seen

in the representation of the Thomas A. Edison Winter Estate and

Botanical Gardens, 1885, Fort Myers (2001,11-14).

The Outcome

The Deering Foundation, through a $50,000. grant

supported the development and publication of the book and

corresponding exhibition of its 27 drawings. After the opening

at Miami-Dade County’s Deering Estate in Cutler, the Florida

Endowment for the Humanities and their Road Scholar

program, enabled the authors to speak in communities that

hosted the exhibition in museums and libraries throughout

Florida. The work was exhibited statewide for four years,

helping to raise community awareness of the importance of

these landscapes and assisting their owners and caretakers

in advocating for their preservation and conservation. Local

proceeds from book sales funded School of Architecture

scholarships; revenue from exhibition admissions and on-site

book sales funded the individual institutions.

Left: Map of Indian Key.

Right: Florida’s Historic Landscapes

book cover.

Project: BOOK/EXHIBITIONS: HISTORIC LANDSCAPES OF FLORIDA, 2001-2005

Architecture Firm of Record: N/A

Design Firm: N/A

Completion Dates: Book: 2001, Exhibitions: 2001-2004

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Award:

Florida Trust for Historic Preservation Award

Outstanding Achievement for Preservation Education/Media

Book: Historic Landscapes of Florida.

Publications:

2002 “A New Look at Florida’s Historic Landscapes” Florida

History & The Arts Magazine, page 5. Book Review

2002 The New Press, Tropicalia, pages 11, 14. Amy Williams on

Historic Landscapes Exhibit “Enjoying art exhibits is as easy as

ABC” “Luxurious Landscapes”

2001 “Florida’s Historic Landscapes can Teach Gardeners

Wisdom” Miami Herald, pages 2k-3k Georgia Tasker, Oct.

Traveling Exhibitions:

2005 “Historic Landscapes of Florida” Florida History

Museum Tallahassee, FL. October – May.

2004 “Historic Landscapes of Florida” Bok Tower

Gardens, Lake Wales, FL. December - January.

2002 “Historic Landscapes of Florida” Mennello Folk Art

Museum, Orlando, FL. October – March.

2001 “Historic Landscapes of Florida”, Deering Estate,

Cutler, FL . September – December.

Declaration of Responsibility

I have personal knowledge of the nominee’s responsibility for

the exhibit listed above. That responsibility includes: Other:

Co-author of the book and that he is largely responsible for the

direction of its photography and exhibitions.

Charles E. Seitz III

Vice President & Director at the James Deering Danielson

Foundation.

Grantor for funding for the Book and Exhibition.

Opposite

pages from book showing

overall plan (Left) and detail

with text (Right) of Edison

Garden in Fort Myers, FL.

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3.5

Left: New benches facing monument and

historic building. Right: Finished view of monument

seen against historic Coral Gables City Hall.

The Challenge

Going back to 1927 the City of Coral Gables by

resolution stipulated that a suitable monument to its founder,

George Merrick, must be provided by a community entity and

placed in an ‘appropriate location.’ Nearly eighty years later

the Coral Gables Garden Club (CGGC) determined to act

on that resolution and raised funds to support the design and

installation of a monument, which they planned to be a statue

of Merrick, and its pedestal.

Coral Gables City Hall, built in 1927, is a Mediterra-

nean Revival masterpiece by architects Phineas Paist and

Harold Steward, with artistic direction by Denman Fink. The

three story apsidal shaped structure is one of eleven sites

listed in Coral Gables on the National Register of Historic

Places and the only one which is designated as a National

Historic Landmark. The challenge encompassed the design of

an appropriate base for the 12-foot bronze statue of the City’s

founder, while preserving the architectural and artistic integrity

of City Hall and its signiﬁcant features.

Nominees Role

Hired by the Coral Gables Garden Club, my role was

to develop site alternatives; document the existing conditions

of the chosen site; design and produce all drawings for the

pedestal and site plan; and work with the sculptor, the city

staﬀ, the CGGC and stonemasons to ensure the project’s

completion. Because of the indeterminate amount of time

required for such a hands-on project, my professional time

greatly exceeded the bounds of a paid contract. Recognizing

the extensive level of my contributions, the CGGC listed my

name on the bronze plaque as both architect of the project,

and as a donor.

The Outcome

The project is part of a series of Coral Gables Garden

Club city beautiﬁcation projects, which also include recon-

struction and restorations of the historic city entrances. As an

architectural project, the monument seeks to preserve the visual

lines of sight of the building, deﬁne access, and position the

monument to complement the building’s important architectural

features, as well as the historic fountain at its base. George

Merrick built the City Beautiful with his masterplan for a

Mediterranean City in the tropics. It is only appropriate that

79 years later this project honors Merrick’s vision through the

practice of the civic art principles he championed in both

conception and execution.

“Coral Gables is not a thing of the moment,

of the year, or even of the passing period, but a wonderful

monument to the achievement of worthwhile perseverance

in the creation of beauty and the bringing true of dreams

that will as solidly endure and as beautifully and bountifully

age as does the everlasting coral upon which this master

development is founded.”

-George E. Merrick November 16, 1921.

Project: MERRICK MONUMENT

Architecture Firm of Record: Rocco Ceo, AIA

Design Firm: N/A

Completion Date: 2003

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Awards:

Florida Council of Garden Clubs - Outstanding Citizen

Award Awarded annually for “Distinguished Achievement”

Merrick Monument. 2007.

Publications:

“Locals,” Coral Gables Living Magazine. Rochelle Theo

Pienn, “In classic form.” Article about Merrick Monument

Project, p 37. 2006.

Coral Gables News-Tribune, Gary Alan Ruse, June, 2006

“Statue of George Merrick dedicated after 79 years.” page 1.

Coral Gables Gazette, Sondra Levin, May, 2006 “Merrick

Statue Nears Unveiling.” pages 1, A4.

Pencil on vellum

working drawings by Rocco

showing site plan and construction

of base, and walkway details.

Declaration of Responsibility

I have personal knowledge of the nominee’s responsibility for

the exhibit listed above. That responsibility included: Project

under nominee’s direction.

Dona Spain

Assistant City Manager

City of Coral Gables

Client

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3.6

Left: Proposed working

drawing of Cottage North and South

Elevations. Right: View of Restored

Cottage from Southeast.

The Challenge

Originally known as the Pine-Knot Camp, the

Ransom Everglades School is the winter campus for what was

then the Adirondack school that originated in Franklin County,

New York. Founded by Paul C. Ransom in 1903 as a place

for fragile boys to reinvigorate themselves through exposure

to the outdoors, its Florida site provided the opportunity for

year-round outdoor activities. The school today is a co-educa-

tional college preparatory day school.

The Paul C. Ransom Cottage (1908) has served

the school in numerous capacities. An inﬁrmary in the 1920s,

master housing, faculty housing, storage, and an art studio, at

the inception of this project it was serving as a band cottage. Its

location was equally diverse having been moved throughout

the campus, which resulted in a level of neglect that inspired

school leaders to consider demolition.

As one of the last surviving examples of board and

batten construction of Dade County Pine from this era in Miami,

it deserved to be preserved and if need be, resurrected, given its

importance to the history of the campus and early construction

in Coconut Grove. The scope of work would require identifying a

site, measuring and recording all elements of the building, disas-

sembling the structure, cataloguing all the pieces, and reassem-

bling the building in its new location. Any new systems such as

air-conditioning or electrical would need to be introduced in such

a way as to maintain the integrity of the ‘wood tent.’

Nominees Role

Rocco’s role in the project began with documentation

of the existing conditions of the building in great detail given

the age of the structure and the preciousness of the wood.

The building was then disassembled down to the frame and

straightened. All the sound wood, original doors and windows

and hardware were removed from the building and stockpiled

for replacement, restoration or reuse. Rocco produced the

design and working drawings for its conservation and designed

interior furnishings made from leftover Dade County Pine.

The Outcome

The project was ﬁnished and now serves as the

recruitment space for the Admissions Oﬃce, a desired

meeting space ,and a small campus museum housing

artifacts from the history of the campus. The success of

the project has helped focus conservation eﬀorts on other

campus structures of signiﬁcance. The project although

small in scale nevertheless underscored the importance of

preserving a rare, remaining specimen of Dade County Pine

wood frame construction. It also speaks to the capacity of

humble structures that provide profound connections to a time

and history beyond oneself, an important aspect of centering

of oneself in community through the experience of place that

Paul C. Ransom advocated for his students.

Project: 1908 PAUL C. RANSOM COTTAGE RESTORATION

Architecture Firm of Record: Rocco Ceo, AIA

Design Firm: Rocco Ceo, AIA

Date of Completion: 2000

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Awards:

Florida Trust for Historic Preservation Award For

Outstanding Achievement in Restoration and Rehabilitation /

Ransom Cottage, 2003. Statewide award.

Dade Heritage Trust 2002 Preservation Award One of

eight projects in Dade County chosen for recognition Project:

Ransom Cottage.

Publications:

Miami Herald, pages 3M, 6M. Commentary section, Beth

Dunlop, May 5, 2002. “From modest homes to a grand estate:

8 historic projects honored.”

Miami Herald, pages 1B, 2B. Metro Miami Section, Andres

Viglucci, May 01, 2002. Ransom Cottage Project. “Restoration

of Ransom’s ‘little building that could’ is a treasure.”

Miami New Times “Cottage Beaten, Held for Ransom”,

January 28, 1999, Kirk Nielsen.

Interior view of cottage

showing bracing for move before

restoration(Left). Right: view of

interior after restoration. Proposed

plan, sections and furniture drawings

of Ransom Cottage.

Declaration of Responsibility

I have personal knowledge of the nominee’s responsibility for

the exhibit listed above. That responsibility included: Nominee’s

ﬁrm executed the project.

David Villano

Writer, Ransom Everglades Alumnus,

Community Activist.

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3.7

The Challenge

This project grew out of an eﬀort to help Miami-Dade

County’s Oﬃce of Historic Preservation survey what remained

after the devastating impact of Hurricane Andrew, a Category

5 storm. Initially the work involved surveying damaged historic

buildings and landscapes for the Metropolitan Oﬃce of

Community Development and Historic Preservation. In just

a few hours on August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew wreaked

$20 billion in damage, killed 22 people, destroyed 63,000

homes and left nearly 250,000 people homeless (Newsweek,

September 7, 1992). With many areas of South Dade before

the storm experiencing pressure for intrusive development, it

now seemed like the time to re-think how we could do things

better. The challenge was to survey the damaged, lost, and

still viable structures and landscapes to develop a recovery

plan that through coordinated eﬀorts to preserve natural

areas, historic resources and agriculture would establish the

framework for a more resilient future.

Nominees Role

Rocco organized and trained student teams to

safely survey historic properties throughout most of the four

months of the fall semester. This work eventually led to a spring

semester community charrette that brought together Redland’s

home owners, citizen associations, and numerous agricultural

interests, to look more carefully at the whole region.

Rocco was the co-team leader for one of ﬁve teams

asked to re-think how to rebuild after the storm. This team

developed the concept of a Preservation and Tourism network

as an alternative to the conventional mode of sprawl that was

threatening the future of the region’s farms and families. Based

on this successful eﬀort, Rocco, in partnership with Miami-Dade

County’s Historic Preservation Department, was awarded

a Knight Foundation grant of $175,000. to fund three eﬀorts:

$100,000 was allocated for a grants program for the owners of

historic properties and would be administered by the Metropol-

itan Dade County Historic Preservation Division, $25,000 was

allocated to update the Dade County Historic Survey for South

Dade, and $50,000 was designated to develop a preservation

and recovery plan for the Redlands. As Principal Investigator for

the grant, Rocco led the design and implementation of the plan

through a participatory process which included more than 100

sessions and presentations over 2 years.

The Outcome

The publication of the book, Redland: A Preserva-

tion & Tourism Plan provided a highly accessible resource on

the region and its potential for the future. Drawing on historic

research, the book became an activist handbook as well as

a change agent for communities and their governing bodies.

The work ensured both preservation of rare and threatened

resources and secured support for zoning changes and

easement programs that have established eﬀective guidelines

for future compatible development. The plan’s broad appeal is

grounded in its methods to preserve agriculture as a technique

for regulating development, ensuring compatibility and

economic and environmental sustainability and resilience.

Project: MASTERPLAN/BOOK: REDLAND: A PRESERVATION & TOURISM PLAN

Architecture Firm of Record: N/A

Design Firm: Anhinga Design Inc.

Completion Date: 1993

Before and After view of

Historic DeFran House

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Awards:

1995 P/A Progressive Architecture Award, Urban Design,

First Place International competition award for: “Redland: A

Preservation and Tourism Plan”

1994 Florida Trust for Historic Preservation/Honor Award

A state award for Preservation/Education media. For Book.

Publications:

The Redland Preservation and Tourism Plan was widely

published. Below is a list of publications in which it was featured.

For the complete attribution of the 22 publications, see Section 2.

Miami Today, January, August 1995.

Landscape Architecture, 1995.

P/A Progressive Architecture, 1993, June/July 1995.

Miami Herald, 12 articles.

Architectural Record, June 1994.

Preservation Today, June 1994.

Miami Magazine, Summer 1994.

BR, Building Renovation, January, February 1993.

Left: Documental drawing of Graham House.

Middle: Graham house after Hurricane Andrew/ team

surveying damage. Right: Future Architectural Design

Guidelines generated from historic documentation and

damage assessment surveys. Bottom: Detail of map of

historic 232 Street Redland.

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I have personal knowledge of the nominee’s responsibility for

the exhibit listed above. That responsibility included: Project

under direction of the nominee.

Margot Ammidown

(At the time of the Plan, Director of the Historic Preservation

Division for Miami-Dade County)

Director, co-author

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3.8

B.E. W.R Miller BUILDLAB

View at night.

The Challenge

After founding the Design/Build program in 2009 and

working under temporary tarps for 7 years, the School of Archi-

tecture Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk challenged me to design

and develop funding for a building to house the increasing

demand for the program. Drawing on the relationships built

through our work, my Design/Build partner Jim Adamson and I

already had begun to attract annual funds, so what was needed

was a design to advance the project and to support fundraising

for the building.

Nominees Role

As co-founder with Jim Adamson of the Design/Build

program, Rocco was tasked by Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zy-

berk with the design for the new Design/Build Studio. Rocco

did this pro-bono and assisted in fundraising by promoting

our built work with donors, most of whom we already had

established relationships to provide annual funds to buy tools

and supplies. Working with colleague, Jake Brillhart, AIA, we

developed renderings that helped to raise the ﬁnal $400,000.

which was 60% of the total building budget. To further save on

costs, we identiﬁed plans for the building’s metal inﬁll panels

as a budget item we could replace with louvered walls that

could be designed and built with students. My role evolved

from designer, to project development in partnership with the

University of Miami Facilities and Planning staﬀ members,

and ﬁnally transitioned to building portions of the building with

students over two years.

The Outcome

The 1600 sq. ft. Buildlab has become a signature

building on the University of Miami campus. As home of

Design/Build for the School of Architecture and a public

expression of the program, the building serves to support the

work of the Design/Build program and functions beyond its

teaching capacities as a destination for campus tours, and a

new model for outdoor instruction. A high-bay, heavy concrete

frame is inﬁlled with the student designed and built ‘Kebony’

louvered walls for enhanced air ﬂow, and specially designed

containers for tool and material storage. Responsive to the

current COVID-19 crisis, the building has been temporarily

repurposed for the Fall 2020 semester as an outdoor

classroom and project review/exhibition space given its siting

to enhance breezes and openness to natural ventilation,

as well as a dimension that easily accommodates physical

distancing requirements. The building is a tangible expression

of public service and community building as projects are

completed each year for not-for-proﬁt clients in need of design

solutions that ease the daily lives of constituents.

“The Design/Build studio Program was founded

in 2009 by Rocco Ceo and Jim Adamson to address

the need in architecture education for the learning and

experience that can only be gleaned from direct, hands-on

work – building what one has drawn.”

-Rocco Ceo “Design/Build: 9 Projects”

Project: B.E. & W.R. MILLER BUILDLAB, PROJECT, 2016-2018

Architect of Record: Richard Jones, University of Miami,

Associate VP of Design and Construction, w/ Max Bunster

Design Firm: Rocco Ceo, AIA

Date of Completion: 2018

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Awards:

Architizer A+Awards

Products, Jury Award 2019: University of Miami B.E. & W.R.

Miller BuildLab.

Publications:

“Weatherproof Learning” B.E & W.R. Miller Buildlab allows ar-

chitecture students to work even in inclement weather. Veritas.

3.12.18, Rob er t Jones.

B.E. & W.R. Miller BuildLab University of Miami

Inside Kebony (/us/inside-kebony) Kebony Product write-up

featuring design and use of Kebony wood.

“Gifts to Enhance Workspace for School of Architecture’s

Design-Build Studio” E-Veritas, Canes in the Community,

University of Miami, pgs. 1-6, March, 2013, Robert Jones

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I have personal knowledge of the nominee’s responsibility for

the exhibit listed above. That responsibility included: Largely

responsible for the design.

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

Dean Emerita, University of Miami School of Architecture

(1995-2013)

Malcolm Matheson Distinguished Professor of Architecture

Director of the Master of Urban Design Program. Client

Left: View of Buildlab

from Northeast. Right: Design/Build

students building 16’ high doors.

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The Challenge

When Meg Daly came to the University of Miami

School of Architecture in the fall of 2014 with an idea about the

M-Path, a 10-mile corridor under Miami’s elevated MetroRail,

she shared her now well-known story of a serious cycling

injury. Unable to drive after breaking both wrists, she turned to

the MetroRail for daily travel, and began to wonder about the

latent potential of the existing M-Path, which was a discontin-

uous series of walking and bike paths, to become a safe and

accessible series of public spaces that could aggregate into

over 120 acres of public space. Inspired by the success of the

Highline, she hoped that a design studio might consider this

massive project and develop a vision for what a redevelopment

of the M-Path might look like and how it might be approached.

Nominees Role

Responding to Meg’s challenge, Rocco and

colleague Ray Fort co-taught a studio of 10 students who took

up the challenge to reinvent this transportation corridor as a new

model for urban infrastructure to link diverse neighborhoods

along its length. Rocco designed the program for the studio and

conceived of a mapping exercise that organized the corridor

into 10 unique segments based on adjacent neighborhood

identities, neighborhood-relevant programming, and trans-

portation options. Each student addressed one segment to

document, research its context and potential, and develop a

design proposal. Rocco coordinated the studio eﬀorts into an

integrated ﬁnal proposal illustrating each segment as well as one

continuous plan for the 10-mile corridor.

The Outcome

The studio launched the project through a collective

vision of a linear urban park that integrated transportation, housing,

and landscape infrastructure while also addressing safe crossings,

design consistency, signage, improving public amenities and

adding greens and gardens and programs unique to each of

adjacent neighborhoods.

The final review included over 100 participants with

representatives from the Metropolitan Planning Organization,

Florida Department of Transportation, Miami-Dade County Parks,

Recreation & Open Spaces, Miami-Dade Transit, and the mayors

of Coral Gables, South Miami and the City of Miami. This work

provided the foundation for a project that today has received over

$110 million in state and local funding.

Meg Daly subsequently founded Friends of the

Underline, a public-private partnership, and currently serves as its

President and CEO, aligning with Miami Dade Parks Recreation

and Open Spaces and Miami-Dade’s Department of Transporta-

tion and Public Works to continue to raise funds and public support

for the project. She led the initiative to engage James Corner Field

Operations to develop an Underline Framework Plan as well as the

design of two Demonstration Projects at the northern and southern

ends respectively. The Brickell Backyard Promenade, the northern

end’s half-mile segment is scheduled to open in Fall of 2020. When

the full Underline is completed, the project will be one of the largest

public open space infrastructure projects in Miami-Dade County.

Project: M-PATH, GREENLINK, UNDERLINE MASTERPLAN,

COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROJECT, 2014

Architect of Record: N/A

Design Firm: N/A

Date of Completion: 2014

Left: View of presenta-

tion room at the School of Archi-

tecture UM. (change of view of girl

presenting for rendered view of

project showing Laura Greenberg

view of theater from Metrorail.)

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Awards:

Miami-Dade County Certificate of Recognition for

GreenLink Initiative April, 2014, presented by the Deputy Mayor

Alina Hudak from Commissioner Rebeca Sosa & Mayor Carlos

Gimenez.

Publications:

“Will Miami’s Metrorail shade a linear park?

Miami Today, M-Path Project, John Charles Robbins, June 2014.

“Students Propose ‘Greenlink’ Linear Park Under The

MetroRail” Curbed Miami, Sean McCaughan, May 2014.

“Students Unveil Designs for a GreenLink Park Under Miami’s

Metrorail” E-Veritas, Canes in the Community, University of

Miami, Barbara Gutierrez, May 2014.

“Let the sunshine in”

Miami Herald, Editorial, M-Path project, April 2014.

“An academic exercise – and more”

Miami Herald, Call to Action, M-Path project, Rocco Ceo, April

2014.

Declaration of Responsibility

I have personal knowledge of the nominee’s responsibility for

the exhibit listed above. That responsibility includes: Project

under direction of the nominee.

Meg Daly

Founder at Friends of the Underline

Client

Left: Student presenting

M-Path to the public. Right: One

segment of ten-mile overall plan of

M-Path masterplan.

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The Challenge

In 2009 Rocco co-founded a Design/Build Studio with

Jersey Devil principal and partner, Jim Adamson. Using their

personal tools, they worked with students with the expressed

purpose of engaging students in community based projects

for not-for-proﬁt clients, fulﬁlling a deep need in the community

and a gap in the education of aspiring architects. Students

responded with overwhelming interest validating program

tenets that the desire to work with their hands, with community

members in need, and with a greater sense of professional

conﬁdence, was a need that the Design/Build program could

meet in a meaningful way. The challenge was to design,

develop and launch a program, sustain it, and create a culture

of community building and civic responsibility for students that

could enlighten their contributions to the profession throughout

their careers.

Nominees Role

Based on a foundational belief in the program’s social

impact potential, this program required the sustained building

of an extensive network among community advocates across

South Florida, curriculum design, student recruitment and an

ongoing nurturing of relationships to identify clients and link their

causes to sponsors who could provide the funding necessary

to run the program. Over the last 11 years, Rocco co-managed

the funded production of 11 built projects. Additionally, Rocco

has co-designed and built with students, the BuildLab’s inﬁll

louvered panels and doors, putting into practice what the

program promotes. Raising more than $400,000. for the

program, managing the acquisition of tools and raising more

than $150,000. for tools and supplies, Rocco has lectured on the

work of the program nationally and has co-educated more than

120 students.

The Outcome

Completed projects to date include the Motes Orchid

Pavilion, an orchid shade house for orchid education; the

Mobile Permakitchen for preparation, instruction and

learning about local foods and healthy eating habits; the

Everglades Eco-Tent, a prototype for Everglades National

Park to provide camping facilities for visitors; the Guara

Ki Eco Farm Rural Bathroom Facilities, an oﬀ-the-grid,

mobile, rural composting toilet and shower for farm workers

who have no access to such facilities in the ﬁeld; the Mobile

Coﬀee Kiosk: Billy Goat Café, a student owned and

operated café for the School of Architecture that generates

funds to support student activities; the Million Orchid

Project STEMLab, for Miami-Dade County Public Schools

and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, to provide a fully

functioning propagation lab for middle school students;

Project: Program: UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE (UM/SOA),

DESIGN/BUILD STUDIO, ACADEMIC PROGRAM 2009 - PRESENT.

Architect of Record: N/A

Design Firm: N/A

Date of Completion: Ongoing

The rst ve of prototype projects

from design/build made for the not-for-prot

public. Left to right: Orchid Pavilion/classroom;

Mobile Permakitchen; Everglades Eco-tent;

Mobile rural sanitary facility and student

owned and operated Billy goat Café.

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the Mobile Chicken Coop, that enables Empower Farms to

provide space for chickens who forage in various locations to

safely roost, nest and lay eggs; the current infill buildout of the

B.E. & W.R. Miller Buildlab including the Sixteen foot doors

and materials and tool container interiors; the Fairchild Tropical

Botanic Garden Shade House Prototype for Miami-Dade

County Public Schools to grow orchids propagated in the

STEMLab as part of FTBG’s Million Orchid project to reintroduce

native orchids to Miami; the Kampong Potting Pavilion, a

pavilion for potting rare tropical plants; and most recently, the

Homestead Bayfront Park Lifeguard Station prototype,

for Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Space’s

lifesaving unit.

Awards:

Architizer A+Awards Products, Jury Award 2019: University of

Miami B.E. & W.R. Miller BuildLab

Publications:

The work of this program has been published in 29 pubications

which include a book, magazines, newspapers, video, and

e-publications. Below is a condensed list of publications, for the

complete list, see Section 2.

Design/Build 3 part video series, 2019.

UM SOA Design/Build: 9 Projects, 2018.

Design/Build with Jersey Devil: A Handbook for Education

and Practice, 2016.

Working Out: Thinking While Building, 2014 ACSA Fall

Conference Proceedings, 2014.

Miami Magazine, 2011, 2013.

Architectural Products, September 2013.

Oﬀsite/Theory and Practice of Architectural Production,

2012

ACSA Fall Conference Proceedings, 2012.

UM/SOA Design Build Program Documentary Film

Calle Ocho News, June 2020.

Miami Today, June 2020

Veritas, March 2018, April 2012.

Inside Kebony

Miami Herald, June, 2017, July 2015, December 2012

Miami Hurricane, First Impression, Summer 2015.

E-Veritas, University of Miami, 2015, 2013, 2012.

The News-Press, April 2013.

In Tents, April 2013.

Our National Parks, Journalism Program Feature Writing

Project, UM, March 2013.

Declaration of Responsibility

I have personal knowledge of the nominee’s responsibility for

the exhibit listed above. That responsibility includes: Project’s

and program administration under the direction of the nominee.

Jim Adamson

Partner in the ﬁrm: Jersey Devil

Co-Founder, co-director of UM/SOA Design/Build Program

2009-present

Latest Design/Build Projects: Stemlab mobile

orchid propagation facility; Empower Farms chicken coop;

Fairchild Shade House prototype; Kampong potting pavilion;

and Homestead Bayfront Park Lifeguard Station.

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Design/Build Studio

REFERENCES

Elizabeth M. Plater-Zyberk, FAIA, LEED AP

Miami, FL

Colleague, University of Miami, School of

Architecture Malcolm Matheson Distinguished Professor of

Architecture, Director of the Master of Urban Design Program

David Hinson, FAIA

Auburn, AL

Colleague, Professor Auburn University

School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture

Nick Serfass, FAIA, CAE

Richmond, VA

Former student, Executive Director, Richmond Technology

Council

Joanna Lombard, AIA, LEED AP

Coral Gables, FL

Colleague, Professor University of Miami, School of

Architecture, Joint appointment in the Department of Public

Health Sciences at the Miller School of Medicine

Andrew B. Cogar, AIA

Atlanta, GA

Former student, President of Historical Concepts

Meg Daly

Coral Gables, FL

Activist, Founder and President of Friends Of the Underline

Beth Dunlop

Miami Beach, FL

Writer and Editor

4. References

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