TEOFILO VICTORIA LECTURE SERIES
The City Beautiful Movement
Organized in collaboration with ICAA Florida Chapter and the University of Miami School of Architecture.
Lecture I
Wed, Feb 26, 5:30-7:30 PM
Design Influences on Coral Gables with
R. Samuel Roche
5:30 – 6:15 PM: Cocktail Reception
6:15 – 7:15 PM: Lecture with Q&A to follow
We will consider the different planning traditions which shaped the City Beautiful movement, first in Chicago at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and then in Coral Gables in the 1920s. We will look at some related building designs by architects with ties to both places, with special attention to their drawings. Finally we’ll ask whether and how City-Beautiful planning remains relevant to Coral Gables today.
R. Samuel Roche is an architect and partner with Stephenson Roche Partners since 2017, focused on new buildings and renovations of all types to create, preserve, and enhance their sense of place and history.
He has written on urban planning in the book Plans of Chicago (2009), for a public process to redesign the Eisenhower Memorial in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, and on the classical origins of Louis Kahn’s modernist architecture in The Classicist No. 9. He studied architecture and art history at Princeton and Yale universities and at the ICAA’s Beaux-Arts Atelier, and he has taught classical-design studios for the University of Miami and Benedictine College. He is a native of Savannah, Georgia.
