Join us for our fall lecture series. A preview of the speaker lineup is below. Note: MDPL Members receive VIP seating at the lecture series.
All lectures are free and open to the public, but registration is required. This lecture series is made possible through the generous support of MDPL members, the City of Miami Beach, and Miami-Dade County.
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Rey “Mambo” Baumel
Time: Saturday, October 5, 2024, 2pm-330pm
Location: Art Deco Museum, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach
Rey Baumel was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York’s world-famous Coney Island. He came to Miami Beach with his parents in 1938 and fell in love with all things Latin: food, music, and girls. By the age of 15 he could read, write and speak fluently in Spanish. At age 16, he received the American Legion Art Award Medal for his Miami Beach Senior High murals, featured in a story by Miami Herald Arts Editor Doris Reno.
Rey was featured in a Miami Beach Visual Memoirs project video – a collaboration of the Miami Design Preservation League, Close Up Productions, and the Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authority.
During World War II, Rey was a member of the Army War Department Show Orchestra, The Khaki Kaballeros. After his discharge from the Army, he was a percussionist in the Ft. Wayne Philharmonic with his older brother assistant conductor and violinist Herbert who later was the original Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway.
As a bandleader, Rey Mambo with his Latin band featuring singer Lynita, his wife of 59 years, opened major Miami Beach nightclubs and hotels in the 1950’s. Other achievements include: percussion accompanist to renowned International Star Josephine Baker at famed Miami Beach night club, Copa City; stand-up comedian touring the Playboy Club Circuit; TV, Film Actor on the Jackie Gleason Show, cameo roles in Sinatra films Tony Rome and Lady in Cement (where he created his own role), Goodbye, Columbus with Jack Klugman, Flipper, Gentle Ben, numerous Spanish TV interviews and dubbed the voice for Mexican movie Superstar Cantinflas.
He served as President of Screen Actors Guild, Florida Branch. He was a humorous conference speaker for 35 years as “Rey Baumel, The Genuine Authentic Fake!” appearing before Fortune’s Top 100 Companies, speaking to over a million people and was featured on the front page of The Wall St. Journal. Rey Baumel was featured in the World Premiere of THE MAMBONIKS documentary at the 2019 Miami Film Festival.
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Opening Reception and Lecture “Connecting Concrete: Modernist Architecture from Havana to Miami”
with co-hosts: City of Miami Beach Hispanic Affairs Committee, Miami-Dade County, and City of Miami Beach Mayor and Commission
Time: Thursday, October 10, 2024, 6pm-9pm. Lecture by Tim Hossler at 6:30pm.
Location: Art Deco Museum, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach
About the speaker: As the former in-house art director for photographer Annie Leibovitz, Tim Hossler helped Ms. Leibovitz create her most memorable images, books, and exhibitions of the late 1990s through the early 2000s. His work with Leibovitz included her 1999 book, Women, co-authored with Susan Sontag. He holds a degree in Architecture from Kansas State University and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
At the University of Kansas, he teaches design ethics, publication design, and an honors seminar on photo culture. His academic research includes the exploration of visual culture’s role in defining time and place. He has designed award-winning books for The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Cranbrook Art Museum, and fashion photographer Tim Walker. His work on the book New Farmers 2014/2018 was named by the American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA) as one of the 50 Best Covers and Best Book Designs of 2018.
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Art of Architecture: Jamie Moshe Straz, AIA // Studio 3
Time: Friday, November 8, 2024, 10am-1130am
Location: North Shore Youth Center, 501 72nd Street, Miami Beach
Jamie Moshe Straz (b. 1987), is an Architect, Artist and Designer. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife and children. Jamie holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami and is the Principal Architect/Founder of the Architecture Firm, Studio 3, which has been involved with Architecture, Interior Design and Urban Planning throughout South Florida.
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Art of Architecture: Elizabeth Camargo, AIA // EC Architecture + Design
Time: Saturday, November 23, 2024, 2pm-330pm
Location: Art Deco Museum, 1001 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach
Elizabeth Camargo is the founding principal of EC Architecture + Design. Since 2004 the boutique design firm located in Miami Beach has been offering a wide range of services in architecture and interior design for commercial, entertainment and residential projects. Elizabeth brings to clients her extensive experience acquired while working in several nationally renowned architectural firms in New York, Los Angeles and Miami.
Elizabeth was the president of the Miami Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 2017 and is currently the AIA Florida president-elect. She also serves on the City of Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board and the Bal Harbour Village Architectural Review Board. She is a registered member of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, the Brazilian Institute of Architects and the United States Green Building Council. She received the AIA Miami Architect of the Year Award in 2018 and the Sustainable Architect of the Year in 2023.
Elizabeth graduated in Architecture and Planning in her native Brazil, and obtained a Master’s degree in Architectural Science with a focus on environmental design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been on the faculty of the Florida International University, School of Architecture, and a guest juror at the University of Miami, School of Architecture.
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