Miami Architecture: An AIA Guide Featuring Downtown, the Beaches, and Coconut Grove

A major urban center perched between vast natural ecosystems, Miami is known for a strikingly diverse built environment that is barely 100 years old. Within this brief span, the city has constantly reinvented itself, seeking a tangible identity as Florida's largest metropolis. In this invented landscape, architecture, landscape design, and urban planning have played a particularly important role in creating Miami's modern character and unique identity.

Ideal for residents, professionals, vacationers, and day-trippers, this authoritative guidebook provides a broad, accessible architectural overview of the notable buildings that can be found in the core of Downtown Miami, Miami Beach, and Coconut Grove. It features those structures that have attracted attention in the media, those that have caused the public to think about architecture in new ways, and buildings that have defined or redefined the landscape of the city.