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ALLAN T. SHULMAN

Allan T. Shulman is an icon of architecture in Miami. He has worked on some of Miami’s most celebrated projects. He has an ablity to honor the traditon of Miami’s architectural heritage by adapting older buidlings with contemporary design features.

Shulman is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture and a practicing architect and urban designer. His work focuses on themes of regional architecture and urbanism, housing and historic preservation. He is the mastermind behind numerous awards winning project in residential, corporate, urban development, and hotels.

We sat down with Shulman at his latest masterpiece, the Soho Hotel Miami.

ARCHITECT, PROFESSOR, HISTORIAN

Allan T. Shulman is a man known for his ongoing efforts to preserve the architectural heritage that Miami possesses. Besides his numerous projects in residential, commercial, and hospitality, he is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami School of architecture. He participates on numerous boards relating to preservation and design, conducts many presentations on the subject, and has penned several books relating to Miami architectural past and evolution. In short, Allan Shulman is one of the preeminent experts on Miami architecture and is one of the most prolific contributors to its preservation and legacy.

After graduating from Cornell, Shulman first came to Miami in 1990 to complete his Master’s degree in Architecture at the University of Miami . While there, his passion for art deco as well as other forms of building design distinct to Miami grew. He has made Miami home since then.

His firm, Shulman & Associates was founded in Miami in 1996. The firm has worked on various preservation projects in Miami Beach, providing a wide range of services from architectural work to interior design as well as consulting and urban planning. Shulman has an inate abililty to combine historical buildings with contemporary concepts. His specialization in the design of hotels and motels over the past decade has resulted in a portfolio that makes his firm one of the most sought after hospitality designers. As a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, and various other notable organizations, Shulman has made a huge contribution towards architecture and the beautification of Miami.

Shulman is an Associate Professor at the University of Miami teaching Architecture Design & Urban Design and loves teaching the craft to aspiring architects. He is also a lecturer at Florida International University and a visiting professor at the Polytechnic University on Puerto Rico in San Juan.

SOHO HOUSE MIAMI

For the last three years, the buzz on the next new hot hotel has been all about the Soho House.

The Soho House Miami is one of nine properties in exclusive group with was founded in London, in 1995, as a private members’ club for those in film, media and creative industries. Soho house Miami is a combination of a private club, hotel, restaurant and spa.

Shulman lead the team that redesigned the historic Sovereign Hotel, which was built in 1940, to create the Soho House Miami. The private members club has been entirely redesigned and expanded to include a 16-story oceanfront tower. Soho Beach House includes a 50 room hotel, a screening snug, two pools, a beach club, as well as an expansive Cowshed spa and Cecconi’s Italian restaurant.

Soho House Miami is a special property. By it being exclusive, it has become the place that jetsetting travelers and in-the-know locals want to go. It is unique among Miami hotels. At times it feels like a traditional Art Deco building, then like a Cape Cod estate with its wood paneled drawing room or the tiki space with its Adirondack chairs. Other spaces feel like St Tropez with it roof top pool area and cabana or like 1950’s Cuba with the second floor bar.

Every possible attention to detail has been taken with designing the rooms. From the expansive dressing areas in the rooms or the incredible soaking bath tubs in the suites are sure to satisfy the most fickle of guests. Other interesting design elements are the fact that the balconies are expansive to provide increased use of indoor outdoor space while allowing less direct sun to come into rooms. Shulman also used a forgotten cooling technique of using screens to defuse the direct sunlight while letting defused light into the rooms which are designed with to with floor to ceiling sliding doors around most of the space. Shulman talks about the importance of using cement tiles for the flooring as they are perfect for the humidity in Florida and that "they simply feel good on one’s feet”.

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AWARDS, SERVICE, PUBLISHED WORKS

HONORS

Miami Design Preservation League, 2004, Preservation Award for Browns Hotel, Miami Beach
Dade Heritage Trust Award, 2004, Browns Hotel Restoration, Miami Beach
Dade Heritage Trust Award, 2003, 1036 Lincoln Rd. Building, Miami Beach
Dade Heritage Trust Award, 2002, The Mead Building, Miami Beach
The Little Haiti Affordable Housing Competition, 2001, Honorable Mention

SERVICE

Miami Zoning Board
Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board
Board of Dade Heritage Trust
Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council
Florida Trust for Historic Preservation
Urban Arts Committee
Hampton House Community Trust

PUBLISHED WORKS

Master plan for the revitalization of Zschornewitz, Germany. Academic work featured in Harald Bodenschaiz, “New Urbanism and the European Perspective,” published in Rob Krier, Town Spaces, (Berlin: Birkhauser), 2003, p. 275

Allan T. Shulman, Randall Robinson and Jeff Donnelly, “Miami Architecture Project” Catalogue and educational program, including a guide to Miami architecture. Funded with a grant from the Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council
- This book is a critical appraisal of Miami from 1945 to 1965. It provides an overview of the planning and architecture of the city and the significance thereof both nationally and internationally from those years as well as today. The book also tries to determine whether the objectives of the original architects and planners were met in building and developing the city

Allan T.. Shulman, ‘The Florida Tropical Home: Porch, Patio and the Outdoor Living Ideal,” publication pending

Allan T,. Shulman, “Morris Lapidus and the Search for a Hemispheric Modernism,” Architecture and Urbanism en Las Americas (A ULA), No. 3, May 2002

Author (with Jean Francois Lejeune), The Making of Miami Beach 1933-1942: The Architecture of Lawrence Murray Dixon, New York, Rizzoli, 2001

Author (with Jean Francois Lejeune & Jose Gelabert-Navia), Miami Beach-Ocean Drive, Pamplona, Colegio de Arquitectos del Pais Vasco, 2000