On Wednesday, April 26, 2023 Fabio Grementieri spoke at the Jewish Museum of Florida for the 16th World Congress on Art Deco lecture series.

In his lecture, Grementieri discusses the work and influence of Argentine architect Francisco Salamone.

Salamone was born in Sicily and relocated to Argentina in 1903. He graduated in Cordoba as an engineer and architect in 1917.

He built some of his most important works from 1936 to 1940 in Buenos Aires, designing more than 60 municipal buildings with elements of the Art Deco style under the leadership of Governor Manuel Fresco, as part of a Public Works program throughout the provincial territory.

Grementieri is an architect who graduated from the University of Buenos Aires. He is specialized in Historic Preservation and Architectural History.

He has had extensive practice in the preservation and conservation projects of monuments and sites. Grementieri served as an advisor to public and private institutions such as the Argentine Government, the city of Buenos Aires, UNESCO, and the World Monuments Fund.

He was a visiting professor and lecturer at different American and European Universities and Institutes, Director of the Preservation Program at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and a former Member of the National Commission of Monuments of Argentina.

Grementieri has published several books on Argentine Heritage and received the Henry Hope Reed Award given by the Driehaus Foundation and the University of Notre Dame in 2009.

The 16th World Congress on Art Deco was made possible with the support of the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau, the City of Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County, the State of Florida, the International Coalition of Art Deco Societies, and the Art Deco Society of the Palm Beaches.