Stuart, John

Stuart, John
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Professor, School of Architecture , College of Communication, Architecture and the Arts

Contact Info

stuartj@fiu.edu

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overview

John Stuart, AIA is an innovator, designer, registered architect, and a resident of Miami Beach, where he has served on the Historic Preservation Board for six years. He has also served on the Board of Governors for the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce and on the Miami Dade County Biscayne Bay Shoreline Committee. He has been involved in collaborative research projects funded by Van Alen Institute, The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Science Foundation, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The Knight Foundation, and The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Stuart's books include: The Gray Cloth, Paul Scheerbart's Novel on Glass Architecture (MIT Press); Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York (W. W. Norton, with Jewel Stern), and The New Deal in South Florida: Design, Policy and Community Building, 1933-1940 (University Press of Florida, with John F. Stack, Jr.) which won the Silver Medal Book Award. He has lectured and taught widely on technology, architecture, design, urbanism, innovation and identity, and at the Miami Beach Urban Studios is currently working on collaborative projects with the City of Miami Beach that point to new directions in interdisciplinary innovation and research that engage music, design, art and environmental sciences.

selected publications

Article
- 2000
  
  Tidal Shade (Project for a piece of urban furniture located on the Hudson River at Pier-54 within a planned waterfront park). JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION. 54.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1162/104648800564734 Web of Science: 000165256400007
- 1999
  
  Unweaving narrative fabric: Bruno Taut, Walter Benjamin, and Paul Scheerbart's The 'Gray Cloth'. JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION. 53.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1162/104648899564439 Web of Science: 000089335300001
Book Review
- 2013
  
  ARCHITECTURE CONCEPTS: RED IS NOT A COLOR. Ed. 67.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/10464883.2013.817195 Web of Science: 000328165100029
- 2011
  
  Miami Modern Metropolis: Paradise and Paradox in Midcentury Architecture and Planning. Ed. 65.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1531-314X.2011.01161.x Web of Science: 000297948400017
- 2009
  
  Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal. Ed. 36.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S096392680800610X Web of Science: 000268024200017
- 2006
  
  Re-reading 'Perspecta': The first fifty years of the 'Yale Architectural Journal'. Ed. 65.
  Web of Science: 000240580600026
- 2003
  
  The glass state: The technology of the spectacle, Paris, 1981-1998. Ed. 56.
  Web of Science: 000183036900019
Editorial Material
- 2001
  
  Editors' introduction. 63.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1162/104648801753199473
Proceedings Paper
- 1996
  
  Multi-year, multi-university projects provide real human factors experience to undergraduates. PROCEEDINGS OF THE HUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS SOCIETY - 40TH ANNUAL MEETING, VOLS 1 AND 2.
  Web of Science: A1996BG25A00090
- 1996
  
  The gateway MYMUP project: Experience from a pilot implementation at Florida International University. FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION FIE'96 - 26TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, PROCEEDINGS, VOLS 1-3.
  Web of Science: A1996BH26A00028

chaired theses and dissertations

Benitez, Pilar L., Calle Ocho revived : artists studios commemorate the role of Cuban exiles (1960-1973) in the development of Calle Ocho 2001
Bejel, Raul E., Miami Interpretive Center 1998

principal investigator on

City of Miami Beach Junior Cultural Anchor Grant 17-18 awarded by City of Miami Beach 2017 - 2018
City of Miami Beach Junior Cultural Anchor Grant 16-17 awarded by City of Miami Beach 2016 - 2017
GrowLight awarded by John S. and James L. Knight Foundation 2013 - 2017
City of Miami Beach Junior Cultural Anchor Grant 2015-2016 awarded by City of Miami Beach 2015 - 2016
City of Miami Beach Grant FY 14-15 awarded by City of Miami Beach 2014 - 2015
Villagers Inc. Scholarships awarded by Villagers Incorporated 2013 - 2014
DASH Dual Enrollment awarded by Miami-Dade County Public Schools 2012 - 2013
2012 Villager Scholarships awarded by Villagers Incorporated 2012

co-principal investigator on

School of Architecture (SoA) Paul Cejas Endowed Chair and Eminent Scholars (Foundation 1700090) awarded by FIU Foundation 2013 - 2019
School of Architecture General Purpose Paul Cejas (FIU Foundation 1700080) awarded by FIU Foundation 2013 - 2019
UniversityCity Prosperity Project awarded by U.S. Department of Transportation 2014 - 2016
UniversityCity Prosperity Project awarded by U.S. Department of Transportation 2013 - 2016

teaching activities

ARC6356-U01: Architectural Design 10 Fall Term 2019

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