Recommendations: Terence Riley Record Reveals: Miami
Terence Riley is a founding partner at K/R (Keenen/Riley Architects). Formerly chief curator for architecture and design at The Museum of Modern Art in New York and later director at the Miami Art Museum, Riley recently left the museum world to return to his architecture practice.
Best Historic Architecture Atlantis Condominiums — Arquitectonica “The place that the Atlantis Condominiums holds historically and the role that it played culturally when it was built in the early 1980s is quite interesting. Postmodernism was on a roll. Philip Johnson’s AT&T building was on the cover of Time magazine, Charles Jencks’ book came out, all that was hip and was new was on the site of Postmodernism. But going against the grain, Arquitectonica’s Atlantis was beautiful even though it was guilty of everything critics were saying was wrong with Modernism. It became a model for those of us who were not thrilled by this tilt toward historical Postmodernism. For us, against all odds, it was a moment of creativity during that period—one that repeated itself in every Miami Vice trailer—and it became a touchstone."
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