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A well-known creative director and visual effects designer, Architecture alumnus, Carlos Fueyo (’08), has cultivated a widely successful career blending the two things he loves most – architecture and film. Even before graduating from FIU, Fueyo and his mentors knew he had knack for digital designs. “When Carlos was a student in my [...]

During the week of February 3rd-7th, CARTA alumni from across all 8 departments visited the classrooms to participate in FIU’s seventh annual Panther Alumni Week (PAW). PAW is held annually at both the MMC and BBC campuses during the first week in February. CARTA invited its graduates to return as guest speakers in [...]

Miami-Dade Police are preparing for Super Bowl LIV with a highly detailed 3D-printed model of Hard Rock Stadium, made by FIU students, that unleashed innovative opportunities for training. “Law enforcement has never done something like this before for a Super Bowl. This is a first for us, and the students at FIU are [...]

Name(s): Eric Peterson and Darci Pappano Major: Senior Instructor Architecture Department (Peterson) & Instructor Interior Architecture Department (Pappano) Program Name: FIU + Bauhaus Workshop What pushed you to create the study abroad program? In 2015, FIU CARTA signed an agreement with Bauhaus Stiftung Dessau (The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation) endorsing the exchange of students and scholars and artists between our two [...]

When Maria Flores was 11, her father was robbed at gunpoint in Venezuela. Her family packed their bags and moved to the United States with only four suitcases, some money, and no plan of returning. Coming to the U.S. with a clean slate, Maria was encouraged to “dream big” by her parents – [...]

Miami Art Week and Art Basel Miami Beach took to the center of the art world last week from Dec. 2 to Dec. 8, 2019, with a range of prestigious design fairs, exhibitions and events from artists all over the world, some from our very own FIU faculty, students and alumni. See how [...]

On November 7th, FIU Architecture hosted its 30th Annual ‘Walk on Water’ (WOW) event which brings together students enrolled in Professor Jaime Canaves’ “Materials & Methods of Construction” class to compete in a uniquely styled race in which participants work in teams to create ‘shoes’ that can ‘walk’ across the FIU Green Lake. [...]

America’s Top Ranked Architecture & Design Schools from Design Intelligence offers a perspective from three key audiences: the professionals who hire architecture and design graduates; the deans, program chairs, and department heads who help form architecture and design education; and the students and recent graduates who have an up-close view of the architecture [...]

This past month the ArtCenter/South Florida announced its 2019 recipients of the Ellies Visual Arts Awards. Over 500 artists and educators submitted proposals to these competitive awards and forty-four winners were selected. Three of the forty-four recipients were faculty from Florida International University’s College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts. Amongst the School [...]

Associate Professor and Digital Design Coordinator for FIU Department of Architecture and co-founder of MONAD Studio Eric Goldemberg, absolutely shined at the 17th installment of the international architecture event, the Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The event brings together a variety of internationally renowned architects and gives them the [...]