MiMo : Miami modern revealed / Eric P. Nash & Randall C. Robinson Jr. ; preface by Laurinda Hope Spear.

Main entry:

Nash, Eric Peter.

Title & Author:

MiMo : Miami modern revealed / Eric P. Nash & Randall C. Robinson Jr. ; preface by Laurinda Hope Spear.

Publication:

Description:

192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-188) and index.
An intro to MiMo -- A tale of two streets: the MiMo matrix -- A field guide to MiMo -- Resort MiMo -- Postcard Gallery -- Motel modern -- Magic city constellations -- Miami Beach constellatons -- Stars -- Monumental MiMo -- Fort Lauderdale modern -- Forever fabulous.

Summary:

"Miami is a hotbed of unique midcentury architecture - mingling modernism, regional exoticism, and a dose of lighthearted kitsch. MiMo: Miami Modern Revealed is the first book to explore this style."
"Already famous as an architectural treasure for its revitalized South Beach Deco neighborhood, Miami has long nurtured a vibrant strain of modern design. Combining innovative construction with a sometimes nuanced, often feverish subtropical exoticism particular to the region, Miami Modern - or "MiMo" for short - helped define the influential image of South Florida as a hub of postwar leisure, entertainment, and style. A lively style widely known to generations of tourists who stay in its humble motels and sprawling oceanside resorts, Miami Modern also thrives in the city's civic, domestic, and commercial architecture."
"Full of overlooked, forgotten, and no longer extant gems, MiMo catalogs many buildings never before featured in book form. Preservation-minded, the authors catalog the important buildings that did not survive decades of redevelopment and conclude with a chapter on the effort to protect threatened MiMo masterpieces. Over 100 recent and period photographs from the heyday of Miami glamour round out this celebration of some of the hottest architecture in America. The first comprehensive look at the postwar architecture in Miami, MiMo is an architectural history, field guide, and visual document of this trove of distinctive midcentury modernism."--Jacket.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0811842045
9780811842044

Subject:

Modern movement (Architecture) Florida Miami Guidebooks.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Floride Miami Guides.
Buildings.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Hotelbau
Öffentliches Gebäude
Wohnungsbau
Miami (Fla.) Buildings, structures, etc. Guidebooks.
Miami (Fla.) Constructions Guides.
Florida Miami.
Miami, Fla.

Form/genre:

travel guidebooks.
Guidebooks.
Guides touristiques.

Added entries:

Robinson, Randall C.

Miami modern revealed

Holdings:

Location: Library main 236126
Call No.: BIB 165966
Status: Available

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