Welcome to the neighborhood

Everyone is all smiles at the official ribbon-cutting ceremony for the College of Architecture + The Arts Miami Beach Urban Studios, FIU’s new facility on South Beach. The space will house graduate design studios for architecture, landscape architecture and interior architecture students, practice rooms for music students, exhibition and graduate studios for visual arts students, performance spaces for theatre students, and classrooms for communication arts students.

The Miami Beach Urban Studios also will be home to the newly established Office of Engaged Teaching, Scholarship, and Creative Activities, headed by Miami artist Xavier Cortada, who will work collaboratively with FIU faculty on initiatives to engage local businesses, artists, designers, cultural institutions, and governmental agencies.