Ancestral Apparatus

Description:
Ancestral Apparatus is a research project presented as an exhibition that maps and reinterprets more than 300 jagüeyes—ancestral water reservoirs that sustain life across the desert territory of La Guajira, shared between Colombia and Venezuela. These earthen infrastructures, carved through centuries of collective knowledge, embody the intersection of ecology, culture, and survival.

For the exhibition, a curated selection of jagüeyes becomes the foundation for a spatial and material translation. Through mapping, modeling, and fabrication, the project

This exhibition compiles projects from Spring 2023 until Summer 2024 in a display of research, drawings, renderings, and photographs from each student or team. The show includes the work of two alumni who received the 2023 & 2024 Photographer of the Year awards from the AIA Florida chapter.

In 2024, the

This exhibition, the first solo show in the United States, revisits three decades of practice, from 1963 until 1994, showcasing nine built and unbuilt projects. The exhibition’s centerpiece is the fabrication of nine scale models produced by members of Fundación Espacio in Caracas and FIU’s architecture students. Additionally, the gallery will show digital drawings of the projects and photographs of the buildings.

Through archival

CITY X ECOLOGY explores solutions to marginalized urban problems in the cities of Miami (USA) and Belem (Brazil).
What are the commonalities between these two cities? A complex relationship with their neighboring ecology. The design process developed in Studio for the students’ projects presented in this exhibition began with an analysis of the relationships between human-altered and non-human-altered environments in both cities.
Master Project Studio students have conducted extensive research, and as their proposals become clearer and well-formulated, they are exploring multimedia methods to display their ideas and

Exclusively revealing the future Orient Express train imagined by the French architect, Maxime D’Angeac. The new design will be shown at the Design Miami/ fair, from November 30th to December 4th.

Completely re-imagined, the old historic carriages, disappeared, forgotten, and then found again, are back in service. Reimagined by Maxime d'Angeac and the finest artisans in France, the first cars will be available for public exploration in 2024, with a formal launch in 2025.

An exhibition featuring three architecture design practices in Latin America, focusing on the creative work produced through drawings and construction documents that support architecture exhibitions.

Known for his sensibility towards nature and architecture in the city, Mr. Boeri will talk with faculty, students and public, the design approach that guides the work of SBA.

In 2017 the objective is to identify a selection of 42 works in this geographic region that make people think about the most important relationship in architecture and interior design: that between design and human beings.

Before being a client, a user or broker, human beings are individuals who use, enjoy and experience the end result of the design and construction process, whether it be aimed at giving shape to a chair, an apartment, a building