Start New Year with Brute awakening in Coral Gables

Start New Year with Brute awakening in Coral Gables
Start New Year with Brute awakening in Coral Gables
Brutalist architecture in the city of Coral Gables

Join the Historic Preservation Association of Coral Gables on Jan. 19 at the University of Miami School of Architecture Glasgow Lecture Hall for its annual educational event titled Beauty & The Brute.

The five-star panel — which will discuss the emerging interest in the Brutalist movement, its buildings, and the future of such structures — includes:
Robin Hill, Uber architectural photographer and author;
Jean-Francois Lejeune, architect/UM professor/Florida Trust/DOCOMOMO;
Rolando Rivas-Camp, 40-year veteran U.S. General Services Administration;
Allan Shulman, architect/UM professor/preservationist/DOCOMOMO, and
Melissa Wyllie, executive director, Florida Trust for Historic Preservation.

The panel will tackle global, national and local initiatives (including the future status of the 1973 Brutalist-home of the Coral Gables public safety building). The discussion is timely and will put HPACG at the forefront of this important preservation issue.

The event is free. Refreshments and light bites will be available to guests.

The physicality of Brutalism seems to be resonating once again, not least in the form of a determined effort by the Historic Preservation Association of Coral Gables to draw public attention to the plight of one local structure, the Coral Gables public safety building, which — as part of a land-swap arrangement between Coral Gables and a local developer — is likely to be scheduled for demolition by 2020. The goal is to prevent the eradication of the city’s architectural patrimony and encourage at least the partial preservation of Gables’ own, singular Brutalist landmark.

“While the world has moved on to glass-wall construction, the ‘Brute’ of Coral Gables, Florida stands as a stark testament to what latter-day critics are calling an honest, idealistic, even heroic form of public engagement — modern buildings with a civic purpose,” said HPACG member Bruce Fitzgerald.

To reserve a spot at the Beauty & the Brute event, send email to info@historiccoralgables.org.

The Historic Preservation Association of Coral Gables is a 501(c)3 non-profit founded in 1991. The association promotes the understanding of the importance of historic resources and their preservation. For more information and/or to support the mission of HPACG, visit www.historiccoralgables.org.

Karelia Martinez Carbonell is president of the Historic Preservation Association of Coral Gables.


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