ARCHITECTURAL REGISTRATIONS:
Florida
Maryland (inactive)
New York (inactive)
EDUCATION:
University of Pennsylvania
- Bachelor of Architecture
- Master of Architecture in Civic Design
- Theophilous Parsons Chandler Fellow
- Atelier of Louis I. Kahn
University of Miami
- Studies in Politics and Public Affairs
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE : Practicing Architect
Office of Wright, Andrade, and Amenta, Architects. Philadelphia
- Under contract to City of Philadelphia, Redevelopment Authority , Society Hill Project: Field inspections, surveys, to determine demolition of 400 homes in area and preservation of remainder; creation of public sitting areas, walking and play areas, greenways, access to National shrines; also, demolition and/or preservation as well as creation of businesses.
Office of Roth and Fleisher, Architects. Philadelphia
- Architectural designing: proposed commercial, mercantile, and entertainment center for Penn Center's 30th Street Station site; proposed design of Juvenile Facilities for City of Philadelphia, including dormitory courts, infirmary, chapel, and administration.
Office of Supowitz and Demchick, Architects. Philadelphia
- Architectural designing, surveying, and drafting of over ninety (90) building projects including: apartments, facilities for the elderly, commercial facilities, factories, fire stations, medical facilities (hospitals, nurses' dormitories), offices, playgrounds, public housing, recreation facilities, religious institutions, residences, schools, shopping facilities, theatres, and warehouses.
Office of Sanders and Thomas, Inc., Consulting Engineers and Architects. Philadelphia, Pottstown, Washington, D.C.
- HEAD: Architectural Department
- Project Administrator in charge of Urban Renewal Program for the Callowhill East Urban
- Renewal Area, Philadelphia. Investigation and analysis of existing conditions; preparation of marketability study, development of rehabilitation specifications, analysis of utility and highway information, preparation of illustrative site plan, publication of conclusions of studies.
- Architectural designing, supervision, and administrative duties including direct responsibility for sixteen (16) building projects, and seventeen (17) drafters and Architects.
- First reported use of a helicopter in building construction in Philadelphia
Private Practice:
- Residential and commercial designs (banking facilities, shops, offices, warehousing), murals (Richard Haas at the Fontainebleau-Hilton), Professional Consultation, Expert Witness, Inspection.
Partner: Levinson & Lopez, ADA Research and Compliance Analysts. Miami 2001 - present
PUBLICATIONS:
Text: Architectural Rendering Fundamentals, McGraw-Hill
Chapter: Environmental Perception, Man and Environment, Prentice Hall
Correspondent: Progressive Architecture
GRANTS:
Florida Citizen's Committee for the Humanities:
- "Urbanization, An Architect's Agonizing Appraisal of Florida"
National Endowment for the Humanities:
- "Understanding Architecture: The Past and the Present, with a Glimpse into the Future"
POST HURRICANE ANDREW ACTIVITIES:
College seminars, Inspections: Analyses of Building Code compliance; Damage assessment; Prevention; Structural research. Local. and national television appearances: NBC, WTVJ, Miami; NBC's national "DATELINE" series (1992,1993); CNN appearances, aftermath: Hurricane Andrew; American Institute of Architects: pro-bono inspections.
MEMBER: SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS
Accrediting Board:
- Design and Architecture Senior High (D.A.S.H.).
MEMBER: HISTORIC PRESERVATION, POLITICAL, CIVIC, AND SENIOR ORGANIZATIONS
TEACHING:
T-Square Club of Philadelphia:
- Instructor
- Director of Design Atelier
Temple University:
- Instructor of Architectural Design and Building Code
Florida International University:
- Adjunct Professor of Architecture
- Architectural Design
- Architectural History
University of Miami:
- Continuing Studies
- Architecture
- Interior Design
Miami-Dade College, Kendall Campus
- Professor of Architecture
- Architectural Design
- Interior Design
- Architectural Communications
- Architectural History
- Architectural Drafting
- Environmental Technology
- Architectural Theory
- Materials and Methods of Construction
- Building Code
- Man and Environment
- Multi Media
- Faculty Advisor
- Environmental Action Group
- Tzavta (Jewish Student Organization)
- Hillel
- Coach: Campus Brain Bowl Team
- Honors:
- Recipient: ENDOWED TEACHING CHAIR IN ARCHITECTURE: 1994 - 1997
- Selection by Faculty Senate: "Master Teacher"
- Outstanding Faculty Member of Division, Phi Theta Kappa Award
- Outstanding Teacher Awards, Department of Architecture
- Television College
- Environmental Perception
- Urbanization
Yorktown University
- Professor of Architecture
EDUCATIONAL TOUR DIRECTOR:
Conducted Study Programs with College students to Europe
- Miami-Dade College 1983, 84, 86, 87, 90, 94, 01, 02
- Florida International University 2000
Architects Continuing Education:
- Program Development, Facilitator, and Instructor: Rome, Berlin 1996
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:
Citizen participation, Metropolitan Dade County Rapid Transit Program:
- Chairman : Killian Forum (neighborhood)
- President: District VI (one of six County Districts)
White House Conference on Domestic Affairs
State of Florida Historic Preservation conferences.
American Association for State and Local History: National and State conferences.
Solar Energy conferences (Federal, State, and Local).
Architectural / Urban lectures: community-wide civic organizations.
Selection by the Miami-Dade County Board of Commissioners as a member of the Miami-Dade County, Dept of Planning, Development and Regulation, Construction Trades Qualifying Board. 1998-1999
Elected Councilman, Mimai-Dade County, 2006
EXHIBITIONS:
Original oil paintings, sketches, lithographs, and Giclée : New York, Philadelphia, Caracas, and Miami.
TRAVELS:
The following explorations have resulted in the taking and cataloguing of over 65,000 slides, in addition to sketches, research material, and filming. Figures in parentheses indicate the number of explorations to each country. Trips ranged in time from four to eight weeks:
| AUSTRIA (3)
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FRANCE (8)
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PANAMA
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| BELGIUM
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GERMANY (10)
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RUSSIA
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| CANADA
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GREECE (2)
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SPAIN (4)
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| COLOMBIA (2)
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IRELAND
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SWITZERLAND (10)
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| CZECHOSLOVAKIA (2)
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ITALY (14)
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TURKEY
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| DENMARK
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MEXICO (3)
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YUGOSLAVIA
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| ENGLAND / WALES
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NETHERLANDS
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PLUS: Thirty-one of the contiguous United States, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico.