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 Barrera, the innovative Village Manager, Ralph Rosado, the gifted lawyer Steven Solomon, and the amazing Michelle Alban, to name just a few shown above. It’s a great class born in […]
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 citizens, to improve the quality of life for the entire community, and to communicate the view of the business community on major issues of public policy. The Chamber Building symbolizes […]
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 21st century. From the effects of climate change and growing migrant populations to inadequate infrastructure, pandemics and cyber-attacks. Resilience is what helps cities adapt and transform in the face of […]
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 wonderful colleagues who pulled together with their 3D printers, their good humor, advice and resilience that made the distribution of face shields from FIU possible during the pandemic. From Miami […]
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 libretto by Campbell McGrath, performances by BrazzDance under the direction of Augusto Soledade, and video installations by Jacek Kolasinski and John Stuart with Elizabeth Marsh, and sponsored by Faena Arts […]
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 environment organized by the Society of Architectural Historians and the University of Virginia Press. It contains histories, photographs, and maps for over 20,000 structures and places. Water defines the Florida […]
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 and restructuring local landscapes. Few parts of the country were transformed as significantly as South Florida. Blurring the traditional disciplinary boundaries of design history and political science, the contributors to […]
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 his works and signature style in the city of New York – or in Jewel Stern & John A. Stuart’s Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect, which provides a study of his […]
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) wrote several fictional utopian narratives related to glass architecture. In The Gray Cloth, the first of his novels to be translated into English, Scheerbart uses subtle irony and the structural […]
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 communication portal, or a TimeZone pod. It was designed to help communities of diverse social, cultural and economic circumstances share information casually on a daily basis in a park, at […]