Welcome to John Stuart’s world of architecture. As a Distinguished University Professor of Architecture and Associate Dean for Cultural and Community Engagement at Florida International University’s College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts, John explores the world through its structures, histories, futures, environment, organizations, performances, and patterns. In other words, everything is architecture!

With broad and intersecting areas of interest including design, education, historic preservation, community collaboration, technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, extended reality, environmental resilience, pedagogy, and engagement, John brings a unique and holistic approach to his work. Join him in discovering the limitless possibilities of architecture.

About

John Stuart Architecture is an experimental multi-disciplinary research environment for the exploration of architecture .

John Stuart is a registered architect and an educator, author, public speaker, researcher and video artist living in Miami Beach, Florida.


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Projects

Leadership Florida

Cornerstone Class 39, 2020-22. Very proud to be joined by so many illustrious local colleagues, including my former FIU Architecture student, the enormously talented Gus Read More

Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce

2020-21 Vice Chair Chamber Board of Governors. The Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce was formed in 1921 to promote the economic well-being of Miami Beach’s Read More

Resilient305

Co-lead of the Integrated Research to Action Group for Capacity Building and Workforce Development. Cities face a growing range of adversities and challenges in the Read More

Miami Today, 2020

Best of Miami in Times of Crisis Award. While I may have provided a face for this award, it really goes to my many, many Read More

Una marea creciente, 2018

A non-narrative opera about sea level rise. Una Marea Creciente was composed by Orlando Garcia, with vocals and chamber ensembles under his direction, an experimental Read More

SAH Archipedia of Florida, University of Virginia Press 2012

Society of Architectural Historians. Created and wrote the Florida entries with Dr. David Rifkind. SAH Archipedia is an authoritative online encyclopedia of the U.S. built Read More

The New Deal in South Florida, University Press of Florida 2008

Design, Policy and Community Building, 1933-1940. With John F. Stack Jr. The New Deal sought to restore national economic strength in part by reallocating resources Read More

Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect, W. W. Norton Press 2006

Beaux-arts to Modernism in New York. Co-authored with Jewel Stern. Ely Jacques Kahn was a 20th century architect of commercial buildings: you’ll most readily recognize Read More

The Gray Cloth, MIT Press 2001

A Novel by Paul Scheerbart, translated, illustrated and with critical introduction by John Stuart. The German architectural visionary, author, inventor, and artist Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) Read More

TimeZone, 2008

A Van Alen Institute Fellowship Project. This project was developed as a means to connect people living along a single time zone through an open Read More

Hinge House, 2003

With Claudia Busch. This project was designed (unbuilt) as house for a collector of 20C design, his wife and two young daughters. The house was Read More