Jobs

Employer: Florida International University

Title: Associate Professor, School of Architecture

City: Miami

State: Florida

Country: United States

Start Date: 2003

Employer: Florida International University

Title: Assistant Professor, School of Architecture

City: Miami

State: Florida

Country: United States

Start Date: 1999

End Date: 2003

Employer: Florida International University

Title: Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Architecture

City: Miami

State: Florida

Country: United States

Start Date: 1996

End Date: 1999

Notes: Inaugural Director, Graduate Program in Architecture

Employer: University of Miami

Title: Lecturer, School of Architecture

City: Coral Gables

State: Florida

Country: United States

Start Date: 1992

End Date: 1996

Employer: University of Miami

Title: Adjuct Professor, School of Architecture

City: Coral Gables

State: Florida

Country: United States

Start Date: 1987

End Date: 1992

Employer: Marilys R. Nepomechie Architect

Title: Owner / Principal / Designer

City: Coconut Grove

State: Florida

Country: United States

Start Date: 1992

Employer: Office of Urban Architecture (OUA)/MK Roark, Inc.

Title: Director of Architecture

City: Miami

State: Florida

Country: United States

Start Date: 1990

End Date: 1992

Employer: Sasaki Associates, Inc., Watertown, Massachusetts

Title: Associate and Designer

City: Coral Gables

State: Florida

Country: United States

Start Date: 1987

End Date: 1990

Employer: Kenneth N. Folgers Architects

Title: Project Manager and Designer

City: Miami

State: Florida

Country: United States

Start Date: 1985

End Date: 1987

Employer: Reynolds, Smith, and Hills

Title: Intern Architect

City: Plantation

State: Florida

Country: United States

Start Date: 1983

End Date: 1985

Employer: Woo and Williams, Architects

Title: Student Intern

City: Cambridge

State: Massachusetts

Country: United States

Start Date: 1983

End Date: 1983

Collaborators

Name: Marta Canavés

Project: "Scattered Houses: Infill Housing, Little Haiti, Miami, Florida"

City: Miami

State: Florida

Country: United States

Apprenticeships

No apprenticeships on record

Awards

Name: University Faculty Award for Research/Creative Activity, Florida International University

Description: University-wide award for outstanding achievement in original creative work/design research

Date Received: 2003

Name: Honor Award, Unbuilt Design, 11th Annual International Design Awards Competition

Description: given by the Boston Society of Architects, Boston, Massachusetts

Date Received: 2002

Notes: for "Scattered Houses: Infill Housing, Little Haiti, Miami, Florida", with Marta Canavés

Name: Kentucky Housing Corporation Fellowship/Professorship

Description: University of Kentucky College of Architecture, Lexington

Date Received: 2002

Notes: Endowed Professorship in affordable housing design/research: Academic appointment awarded in recognition of design excellence in affordable housing and to support affordable housing research and design throughout Eastern Kentucky and Appalachia

Name: Excellence in Architecture, Unbuilt Design Honor Award

Description: for "Scattered Houses: Infill Housing, Little Haiti, Miami, Florida" with Marta Canavés

Date Received: 2002

Notes: given by the Florida/Caribbean Chapter AIA, award also given by the Miami Chapter AIA in 2001

Name: National AIA Education Honor Awards Program

Description: for "Greater Miami Studios: Rethinking MiMo"

Date Received: 2002

Notes: One of eight projects selected by the National Chapter AIA as exemplars of excellence in teaching and community involvement

Name: Young Architectural Firm of the Year

Description: Awarded by the AIA Miami Board of Directors for overall excellence in design during the first ten years of independent professional practice (first recipient of this award)

Date Received: 2001

Name: Honorable Mention, Oil Pastel Drawings

Description: for "Bayside: Memory Paintings" in "Art by Architects", a juried group competition/exhibition

Date Received: 1992

Notes: at the American Institute of Architects Miami Chapter Young Architects' Forum at the South Florida Art Center

Exhibitions

Title: The Works of Architecture Professors

Description: Group Exhibition of academic and professional work: Models, drawings

City: Coral Gables

State: Florida

Country: United States

End Date: May 2003

Notes: "Little Haiti, Infill House", at the American Institute of Architects Gallery

Title: Annual Awards Exhibition, Florida A&M University Architecture and Building Sciences Gallery

Description: Group exhibition of Design Award winners: Drawings, model photographs

City: Tallahassee

State: Florida

Country: United States

End Date: 1999

Notes: "Belvedere Bridge: Miami Beach Townhomes, Miami Beach, Florida", for the American Institute of Architects Florida/Caribbean Chapter

Title: New University of Florida Museum of Art National Competition Exhibit

Description: at the University of Florida Art Museum

City: Gainesville

State: Florida

Country: United States

End Date: 1986

Notes: Group exhibition of competition entries for the design of a new university campus art museum

Title: Aga Khan Research Grant Drawings: Historic Cordoba, Spain

Description: at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Gallery, Fernando Domeyko-Perez, Principal Investigator; Marilys R. Nepomechie, Project Team Member

City: Cambridge

State: Massachusetts

Country: United States

End Date: 1984

Notes: Documentation and Analysis Drawings: Urban fabric and monuments of the historic city center of Cordoba, Spain, tracing the layered built legacies of sequential resident constituencies

Notable Projects

No projects on record

Education

Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

Department: Graduate School of Architecture and Planning

Degree: Master of Architecture

End Date: 1983

Notes: Alpha Rho Chi Medal

Institution: University of Florida, Gainesville

Department: College of Arts and Sciences

Degree: Bachelor of Arts in English Literature

End Date: 1978

Notes: Highest Honors, Phi Beta Kappa

Institution: Bi-annual Continuing Professional Education to Maintain Professional Licensure

Licensing

License: Registered Architect (AR0011173)

Organization: State of Florida

Date Awarded: February 14, 1986

License: Registered Interior Designer (ID0003943)

Organization: State of Florida

Date Awarded: January 12, 1998

License: Certification (0051775)

Organization: National Council of Architectural Registration Boards

Professional Affiliations

Organization: American Institute of Architects

Role: Member

Notes: Elected Member, Board of Directors, Miami Chapter, 2000-2001 and 1986-1987

Organization: City of Miami Beach Design Review Board

Role: Appointed Member

Start Date: 2002

End Date: 2004

Notes: Appointment: Miami Beach City Commission

Organization: City of Miami Beach Land Development Board

Role: Appointed Member

Start Date: 2002

End Date: 2004

Notes: Appointment: Miami Beach City Commission

Organization: Miami Chapter American Institute of Architects Newsletter

Role: Co-Editor with Ted Hoffman, Jr.

Start Date: 1985

End Date: 1988

Notes: Report and commentary on issues impacting Miami and its design community

Publications By

Title: "Housing Diaspora: Scattered Infill for Little Haiti, Miami City, Florida"

Publication: Journal of Architectural Education

Volume: 57

Issue: 1

Publisher: MIT Press

City: Cambridge

State: Massachusetts

Country: United States

Date Published: 2003

Title: "Public Space/Urban Beach: South (Miami) Beach Historic District"

Publication: Square Design: A Civic Rooms Handbook by Mark C. Childs

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

City: Albuquerque

State: New Mexico

Country: United States

Date Published: 2003

Notes: Invited book chapter/case study contributor

Title: “El Callejón Como Espacio Habitable: El Distrito Art-Deco, Miami Beach”

Publication: Punto 70: Revista Universitaria, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Carlos Raúl Villanueva

Publisher: Impresa de la Universidad Central de Venezuela

City: Caracas

Country: Venezuela

Date Published: 2003

Notes: Invited article based on the lecture delivered at the Universidad Central de Venezuela

Title: "Florida International University School of Architecture"

Publication: Guide to Architecture Schools Seventh Edition

Publisher: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture

City: Washington

State: District of Columbia

Country: United States

Date Published: 2003

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