John Stuart

John Stuart is a distinguished university professor of architecture and associate dean for cultural and community engagement in the College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts at Florida International University, where he has been on the faculty for 30 years. He serves as the Executive Director of FIU’s Miami Beach Urban Studios and the FIU CARTA | Mana Wynwood facility, both community-focused interdisciplinary innovation and collaboration spaces. With more than three decades living in Miami Beach, Stuart is a registered architect in Florida and has been heavily involved in the community, serving as chair of the Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board, and a member of the Executive Board of Governors of the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce. Stuart's interdisciplinary research, funded by organizations such as the NEA, NEH, NSF, Graham, and Knight foundations, examines the intersections of design, historic preservation, the environment, resilience, and technology. He co-authored the Florida building entries for Archipedia, the online encyclopedia of the Society of Architectural Historians, and has three book-length publications: The Gray Cloth: Paul Scheerbart’s Novel on Glass Architecture; Ely Jacque Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York; and The New Deal in South Florida: Design, Policy, and Community Building, 1933–1940. Stuart's current work with graduate architecture students at FIU involves exploring resiliency policies and strategies for Miami Beach’s Historic Districts that engage design research and AI technologies in envisioning equitable, resilient, and sustainable historic communities fifty years into the future.