Sun, Mar 01
|Morris Lapidus Foundation
Morris Lapidus: The Laboratory of Light & Form
Join Deborah Desilets for an immersive walking tour that explores Miami Beach not merely as a collection of hotels, but as Morris Lapidus’s "Laboratory for Design"—a living ecosystem where architecture breaks out of the box to dance with the rhythms of the Atlantic.
Time & Location
Mar 01, 2026, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Morris Lapidus Foundation, 100 Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach, FL 33139, USA
About the event
A Walking Tour for Open House Miami Hosted by: Deborah Desilets, RA
Route: The DiLido (Ritz-Carlton) Waterfront to Lincoln Road
Description: Join Deborah Desilets for an immersive walking tour that explores Miami Beach not merely as a collection of hotels, but as Morris Lapidus’s "Laboratory for Design"—a living ecosystem where architecture breaks out of the box to dance with the rhythms of the Atlantic.
The Waterfront & The Shadows We begin at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean behind the DiLido (The Ritz-Carlton South Beach), standing on the historic footprint of "The Shadows," the home of pioneer Carl Fisher. Here, where land meets sea, we set the stage for how Lapidus began to morph rigid architecture into organic forms. We will discuss how, by the time the DiLido was built—the final stroke before the Fontainebleau—Lapidus had evolved his "store design tricks" into an emergent vocabulary of architectural form.
The Boardwalk:…
Tickets
General Admission
$1.00
+$0.03 ticket service fee
Total
$0.00