Video: Lapidus Lecture 001 – Style & Legacy

Read Time: 2 minsOn September 23rd, we held our first lecture in the series “Beauty and the Beach: Morris Lapidus and MiMo Architecture.” Our next Lapidus lecture is this Thursday, October 7th: Click […]

Year in Review 2020-2021

Read Time: < 1 minHighlights from the last year were shared at the MDPL Annual Meeting of voting members on September 1st, 2021, during which the 2021-2022 Board of Directors were sworn in. Thanks […]

Building Recertification Resources

Read Time: 2 minsIn light of the tragic building collapse in Surfside, Miami Design Preservation League’s Center for Resiliency & Sustainability has been communicating with various stakeholders and providing guidance regarding building recertification […]

Interview with Woody Vondracek

Read Time: 6 minsThroughout the 1980s and the early 90s, Woody Vondracek became one of South Florida’s foremost Art Deco graphic artists. We recently had the opportunity to interview Woody, who reminisced with […]

A Little Girl Grows Up at the Leslie Hotel

Read Time: 5 minsRita Blank certainly had a unique childhood growing up on the beach in the 1950s-60s. Her family moved down from New York to Miami Beach in 1956, thinking their father […]

New Mural Celebrates Washington Avenue History

Read Time: 3 minsLast Friday, March 19th, 2021 was the long-awaited unveiling of a new mural by artist Ignacio Marino Larrique. Located at 1543 Washington Avenue, the mural is sponsored by The Washington […]

A Survivor’s Success Story in Miami Beach

Read Time: 5 minsLeonard (Leibesh) Bobick’s life story was the epitome of the American Dream. He was born in 1934 in Krakow, Poland, to a religious Jewish family that owned a kosher food […]