Deborah Desilets is a Florida Registered Architect, with a BA/BS and MA in Architecture from FAMU. Desilets’ focused on architectural technologies and a preponderance for poetics in design in college. In 1985 she came to Miami and quickly applied her expertise in the office of ARQUITECTONICA establishing their first computer aided design lab. An “observer,” she saw a gap in the education of fellow architects. To remedy this, she took one year off from her professional career at ARQ to teach seniors at the Design and Architecture Senior High School second graduating class. Here she founded the Professional Options Program for students as well as taught innovative Computer Aided Design. By December 1993, Desilets was back at Arquitectonica, where she would become their Marketing Director and oversee their next wave of idea exportation into the East. In 1995 she began her own firm VVAA INC where she began working on projects with Morris Lapidus until his passing. At which time she became the recipient of his Morris Lapidus TM. She has authored four books, as she continues to practice architecture, teach and lecture on Morris Lapidus’s architectural legacy.
Deborah Desilets, RA
