Miami Marine Stadium: Inside and Out

Speakers

Rosa Lowinger

Don Worth

Paul E. Gaudette

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Miami Marine Stadium: Inside and Out

Built in 1962 to watch boat racing and featuring concerts on a floating stage, the Marine Stadium is an architectural masterpiece which when built, featured what was considered to be the longest span of cantilevered concrete in the world. The building has been shuttered since 1992.


First, Don Worth discusses the history of the Stadium, the 16 year advocacy effort to restore it, and "lessons learned" in the advocacy effort. Next, Rosa Lowinger and Paul Gaudette consider the architectural design and use of concrete in the structure and reflect on the complex task of removing 200 coats of graffiti. 

 

Speakers
  • Miami Marine Stadium – A Preservation Playbook – 16 Years and Counting
    Don Worth

 

  • Conserving Modern Concrete in Tropical Environments: The Special Case of the Miami Marine Stadium
    Paul Gaudette and Rosa Lowinger

 

Moderator

Dr. Vyta Pivo

 

All sessions take place at the University of Miami School of Architecture. Exact classroom locations to be announced.

Moderator

Dr. Vyta Pivo

Dr. Vyta Pivo is a scholar of the intersecting histories of material lifecycles, construction labor, ordinary landscapes, and climate change. Her forthcoming book, Cast in Concrete: How the US Built Its Empire (University of Chicago Press), traces the history of the US cement and concrete industries and their global and transplanetary expansion. The book examines how concrete structured not only architecture and infrastructure, but also labor, culture, and political systems that deepened global addiction to this material of modernity. Pivo’s research has been published in various academic and public-facing outlets, including the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Journal of Architectural Education, PLATFORM, Psyche/Aeon, and others. Her research has received support from the National Science Foundation, Andrew Mellon Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and the MacDowell Fellowship, among others.