Conferences organized by Allan Shulman
Organizing Directorate, Streams of Modernity, Postwar to Postmodern, Docomomo US National Symposium, Miami and Coral Gables, FL, 29 May - 1 June 2024
Co-Chair with Architect’s Newspaper, Facades+ AM. J.W. Marriott, Miami, 4 October 2018
Chair, East-West Dialogues: Modern Architectures in Florida. Tampa Museum of Art, 25-26 October 2013
Chair, East-West Dialogues: Modern Architectures in Florida. University of Miami School of Architecture and The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, 16-17 November 2012
Organizing Directorate, Subtropical Urbanism: Beyond Climate Change, Florida Atlantic University College for Design and Social Inquiry in collaboration with the Queensland University of Technology Centre for Subtropical Design, 8-11 March 2011
Preserving the Modern: Building and Landscape Preservation in Miami – A Contemporary Agenda, University of Miami School of Architecture, Coral Gables, and The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, 25 - 26 January 2008
From Miami to Metro: Mid-twentieth-century Modern Architecture, Urban Planning and Popular Culture
Panel Discussion Series
Panel 1, “Hot Spots and High Rollers: Miami - Las Vegas - Havana: Three Mid - Century Tourist Meccas,” 25 April 2005
Panel 2, “Byways to Highways: The Automobile Culture and How it Influenced the Development of Miami at Mid - Century,” 26 March 2005; Panel 3, “Women in Mid - Century Architecture and Design,” 8 January 2005: and
Panel 4, “The Roots of Modernism in Miami,” 6 November 2004, Bass Museum of Art.
Principal Adviser, Florida Humanities Council Grant (2004, $25,000.00)
Lectures
Moderator, “A Conversation with Victor Deupi and Allan Shulman,” OpenHouse Miami, Books & Books Coral Gables, 1 March 2026
Panelist, “Designing with Water: Buoyant City, Salty Urbanism and The Coastline,” with Aaron DeMayo and Jeffrey Huber. Moderated by Tom Klein. OpenHouse Miami, Miami Center for Architecture, Perez Art Museum Miami, 28 February 2026
Panelist, “Exploring Resilience through Public and Private Pathways: A Unified Approach to Adaptation,” City of Miami Beach Sea Level Rise Adaptation Plan Community Meeting, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, 20 February 2025
Panelist, “The Promise of Preservation and Progress,” Deborah Berke lecture, Betsy Hotel, Miami Beach, 10 February 2025
Presenter, “Heritage at Risk: Exploring Postwar Resources in Miami-Dade County,” DoCoMoMo US National Conference, Miami, 30 May 2024
Panelist, “Passive Shading, Active Ventilation: Screen Facades that Provide Air, Shade, Texture and Beauty,” ZAK World of Facades USA Conference, Miami, 16 May 2024
Lecturer, “Tropical Stucco: Miami’s Art Deco and its Architects” 16th World Congress on Art Deco, 21 April 2023
Panelist, Miami Global Real Estate Congress, 8 November 2022
Speaker, “Buoyant City,” Aspen Ideas Festival: Climate/Resilient Communities, Loews Hotel, Miami Beach, 9-12 May 2022
Lecturer, “Designing the Future to Protect the Past,” Miami Design Preservation League, Susan Askew, moderator. The Betsy Hotel, 13 December 2021
Panelist, “Morris Lapidus: Beauty and The Beach: Lecture 4, Legacy,” Miami Design Preservation League, Deborah Desilets, moderator. 18 November 2021
Panelist, “Downtown Miami History,” Miami Book Fair. Raul Guerrero and Aaron DeMayo, moderators. 7 October 2021
Speaker, “Form Follows Finance: A Conversation with Andrew Klum and Allan Shulman,” HistoryMiami Museum, 29 September 2021
Panelist, “Downtown Miami History,” Downtown Arts + Science Salon (DASS), Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, 27 July 2021
Panelist, “Inspirational Visioning Workshop for a Resilient Miami Beach 2070,” City of Miami Beach, 21 July 2021
Panelist, “Adaptation + Advocacy,” Climate Symposium, Miami Center for Architecture & Design, 18 June 2021
Lecturer, The Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge, Nantucket, MA, 24 February 2021
Panelist, “Zen and the Art of the Betsy Orb,” with Robin Hill and Nuria Richards; John Stuart, Moderator. Virtual salon hosted by Florida International University. 2 November 2020
Panelist (accepted), “Buoyant City: Resiliency and Adaptation Guidelines for Historic Districts of Miami Beach,” American Institute of Architects National Conference, Los Angeles. Jeff Goodell, Moderator. 6 May 2020
Speaker, “Buoyant City: Resiliency and Adaptation Guidelines for Historic Districts of Miami Beach,” Miami Beach Preservation League Annual Resiliency Conference. 25 April 2020
Panelist, “Artists, Architects and Makers in the age of algorithmic change,” Unconventional Talks at Perez Art Museum Miami, 21 January 2020
Speaker, “A safe and accessible tropics: the screen patio in midcentury Florida,” International Network of Tropical Architecture (iNTA) Conference at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 5-8 December 2020
Historic Properties Resiliency Workshop, Miami Design Preservation League at The Betsy Hotel, 27 April 2019
Panelist, “Great Streets of Art Deco: Collins Avenue,” Miami Design Preservation League, 11 April 2019
Speaker, Historic Preservation and Sustainability: Beyond the greenest building symposium, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 29 March 2019
Panelist, “Beauty & the Brute,” Historic Preservation Association of Coral Gables, 19 January 2019
Speaker, Design Talk for Interni Magazine’s “Design Icons” series. Istituto Marangoni, Miami. 4 December 2019
Keynote Speaker, “Shulman + Associates: Recent Work,” AIA SW Florida (Naples), 10 November 2018
Keynote Speaker, “Context, Mutation and Permutation: Climate Responsive Design in South Florida,” AIA Build Palm Beach, 18 October 2018
Speaker, “Modernism in Miami,” Orchestra Miami Pre-Concert Talk, the Vagabond Hotel, Miami, 25 February 2018
Lecturer, “Alfred Browning Parker: Woodsong,” American Homes: The Mark Mamolen Annual Program, Wolfsonian Museum, 16 February 2018
Lecturer, “Recent Work of Shulman + Associates,” Art Deco Weekend, Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach, 14 January
Speaker, “The Tropical Home,” AIA/Custom Residential Architects Network Symposium, Miami, 17 September 2017
Panelist, “The Character of Neighborhoods,” Miami United, Miami Beach, 20 April 2017
Speaker, Roundtable with Hospitality Design, Nautilus Hotel, Miami Beach, 21 March 2017
Lecturer, “Building Bacardi,” Currents Lecture, University of Miami School of Architecture, 6 March 2017
Speaker, “Building Bacardi,” Neushop, Miami, 15 February 2017
Panelist, “Memory in the 21st Century City,” Metropolis Think Tank discussion, Susan Szenasy, moderator, with Alastair Gordon, Jonathan Plutzik and Alyssa Kriplen. 8 December 2016
Panelist, “Parker and the Principles of Nature,” Conversation at HistoryMiami Museum, David Rifkind, moderator. 17 November 2016
Lecturer, “Transparency – visual and atmospheric: the tropicalist technics of the Florida home,” 82nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Foundation, St. Petersburg, FL, 2-5 November 2016
Lecturer, “Building Bacardi: Architecture, Art & Identity,” invited lecture as part of Design Week Mexico, Blend, Mexico City, 6 October 2016
Lecturer, “The Mixable One: Bacardi Buildings in the Americas,” invited lecture, UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) School of Architecture, Moderators/Commentators Elena Tudela and Juan Ignacio del Cueto, 5 October2016
Speaker, “The Legacy of Alfred Browning Parker,” Opening conversation at HistoryMiami Museum, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, moderator. 26 September 2016
Lecturer, “In Situ: The Work of Shulman + Associates,” Invited lecture sponsored by FAU School of Architecture, Fort Lauderdale, 1 March 2016
Speaker, “South Florida’s modernist architects: the tropicalists vs the epicureans,” A Public Symposium: Modern Architecture as Placemaking in Florida, Vandana Bawdeja, Chair, Gainesville, FL, 7 February 2016
Panelist, “Art & Architecture: Where the Two Intersect,” Art Deco Weekend, 16 January 2016
Speaker, “In Situ: Working in the Continuous City,” Art Design Miami/ Invited Design Talk, INTERNI (Italy), Bisazza Building, Miami, FL, 2 December 2015
Speaker, “In Situ: Shulman + Associates,” University of South Florida School of Architecture and Community Design, Lecture Series, Tampa, FL, 17 November 2015
Lecturer, “100 Years of Miami Architecture,” Miami Design Preservation League/Art Deco Welcome Center, Miami, FL, 16 October 2015
Keynote Speaker, “Strategic Parameters,” AIA Gulf Coast Annual Meeting, Sarasota, FL, 15 October 2015
Panelist, “Creative Facade Solutions: Responses to Local Zoning,” ULI National Facades Plus Conference, Miami, FL, 10 September 2015
Lecturer, “From Mediterranean Revival to Mid Century Modern: Boom Architecture,” St. Petersburg Preservation Society, Palladium Theatre, St. Petersburg, FL, 19 March
Funded by the Florida Humanities Council 2015
Keynote Speaker, Driven by Design/Architectural Digest, Perez Art Museum Miami, 10 November 2014
Panelist, “Who Owns Historical Artifacts?” Part of series Issues on Urbanism, Patrimony, Ownership, and Culture in Florida. Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, 6 November 2014
Speaker, Hotels Innovate forum, London, 17 October 2014
Speaker, Hotels Innovate forum, New York, NY, 12 September 2014
Lecturer, “MiMo Magic: Back to the 50s,” MiMo Biscayne Association, Eden Roc Hotel, 7 April 2014
Panelist, “Miami Architecture Comes of Age,” Beth Dunlop, Moderator. Coral Gables Museum, 3 April 2014
Speaker, “Conversation with Allan Shulman,” Togather Books & Beer series, Sean McCaughan, moderator, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, 13 December 2013
Speaker, “Little Boxes: The West Laboratory School at the University of Miami,” East-West Dialogues conference, Tampa, 25 October 2013
Lecturer, “The Mixable One: Two Projects for Bacardi,” X DOCOMOMO Brazil conference. Curitiba, Brazil, 16-19 October 2013
Speaker, “Recent Works: S+A,” AIA Puerto Rico Convention, September 2013
Speaker, “Building Bacardi: Architecture, Art & Identity,” Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, FL, 16 November 2012
Speaker, “Beyond Style: The City Beautiful at Midcentury,” Historic Preservation Association of Coral Gables, Coral Gables, FL, 11 September 2011
Speaker, “Inside the Vault: Arquitectonica,” HistoryMiami, 2 April 2011
Lecturer, “Preservation and Development in Miami Beach,” Walking lecture, Subtropical Cities conference, Miami Beach, FL, 12 March 2011
Panelist, “Miami Mid-Century Modern: Challenges and Triumphs,” Meet Mimo conference, Miami Beach, FL, 11 March 2011
Speaker, “The Florida Tropical Home,” AIA Miami Design + Technology Expo, Miami, FL, 12 February 2011
Speaker, “From the Ground Up: The Making of An Architecture Guide,” Miami Beach Historical Society, 26 January 2011
Speaker, “Work of Shulman + Associates,” Edens & Avants Dealmakers Retreat Miami Beach, FL, 4 January 2011
Speaker, “From the Ground Up: The Making of An Architecture Guide,” with Jeff Donnelly and Randall Robinson. Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL, 14 December 2010
Speaker, “From the Ground Up: The Making of An Architecture Guide,” with Jeff Donnelly and Randall Robinson. Miami International Book Fair, 21 November 2010
Panelist, “Deco Delights and Miami Modern Buzz: Packaging Miami's Modern Architecture,” 2010 National Trust for Historic Preservation Annual Conference, Austin, TX, 27 October 2010
Speaker, “From the Ground Up: The Making of An Architecture Guide,” Miami Design Preservation League, 21 October 2010
Lecturer, "Mapping the Urban/Suburban Divide: Revelations in a Miami Nolli," Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 2010 Northeast Fall Conference: Urban/Suburban Identity, University of Hartford, CT, 8-10 October 2010
Panelist, “Miami Modern Metropolis: A 21st Century Preservation Agenda,” Panel Chair, American Institute of Architects 2010 National Convention and Design Exposition, Miami, FL, 10 June 2010
Speaker, “Miami Beach and the Resurgence of the Boutique Hotel,” AIA 2010 National Convention, Miami, FL, 11 June 2010
Panelist, “Making Community in Florida,” Panel chair, AIA 2010 National Convention, Miami, FL, 11 June 2010
Speaker, “Miami Modern Metropolis,” Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL 2009
Speaker, “Modern Architecture as a Community Resource,” Wolfsonian Museum/FIU Lecture Series, Miami Beach, FL 2009
Panelist, “Miami Modern Metropolis,” Panel Chair, University of Miami School of Architecture, 19 November 2009
Panelist, “Paradise to Palimpsest,” Atlantic Coast Conference Urban and Regional Transformations Conference 2009, Koç University, Istanbul
Panelist, “The Importance of Green Development, Design, & Management,” U.S. Green Building Council Miami-Dade/Keys Monthly Meeting, 20 May 2009
Panelist, “Engaging the Urban” Roundtable, Florida International University School of Architecture, 3 March 2009
Lecturer, “The Nolli Plan,” Lunchtime Lecture Series, University of Miami School of Architecture, 25 February 2009
Speaker, “Interama: Miami and the Pan-American Dream,” Historical Museum of Southern Florida, 22 January 2009
Keynote Speaker and Session Facilitator, “Preserving the Recent Past” Public Workshop, University of Florida and The Harn Museum, Gainesville, 2008
Speaker, “Miami’s Tomorrow”, Symposium, University of Miami School of Architecture, 2008
Lecturer, “Miami’s Modern Masters”, Lecturer at Breakfast at MAM Lecture Series, Miami Art Museum, 2008
Lecturer, «Definición de tipologías de vivienda moderna», Modern Typologies Conference, Bogota, Colombia, 2007
Panelist, “Modernism in the Sun: Introducing DoCoMoMo Florida,” Miami Art Museum, 2007
Lecturer, “Miami Modern: Building and Rebuilding,” 7th DoCoMoMo Conference Brazil, o moderno já passado | o passado no moderno (“the modern already past | the past within the modern”), Porto Alegre, 2007
Panelist, “The Anglers Hotel: Urban Assemblage”, Journalist Roundtable, Miami Beach, September 2007
Speaker, "Rejuvenation of American Cities on the Water,” AIA Conference Walking tour and roundtable discussion, The Wolfsonian/FIU, 2007
Panelist, “The Preservation and Development of Miami Beach Architectural Districts,” Jewish Museum of Florida, February 2007
Speaker, “The Tropical Home: Radical Precursor to Green Design,” Under the Sun / Sustainable Innovations + Traditions Conference. University of Miami School of Architecture, January 2007
Speaker, “Building & Rebuilding: Investigations in Regional Architecture,” University of Miami School of Architecture, November 2006
Speaker, “Planning for Global Cities,” Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH), 11th National Conference on Planning History, Miami, October 2005
Panelist, “Going, Going, Gone?,” Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, July 2005
Speaker, “The Florida Home: Modern Living 1945-1965,” Curators’ presentation (with Tom Hine) at the Museum of Florida History, Tallahassee, June 2005
Organizer and Panelist, “Byways to Highways: The Automobile Culture and How It Influenced the Development of Miami at Mid-Century,” The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, March 2005
Panelist, “Architecture = Form + Function / Miami Beach,” Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce, Miami Beach, October 2004
Speaker, “Igor Polevitzky: Miami Architect in Search of a Modern Vernacular,” The Search for a Modern Vernacular, Modern Havana and Miami: The Politics of Design, Representation, Preservation and Tourism,” Cornell University, Ithaca, September 2004
Lecturer, “Early Skyscrapers of Downtown Miami,” The Seymour Building, Miami Beach, July 2004
Panelist, “From DoCoMoMo to MiMo,” Panel Chair, American Collegiate Schools of Architecture Tech / Regional Conference, Miami Beach, March 2004
Lecturer, “The Florida Tropical Home”, University of Maryland School of Architecture, College Park, MD, March 2004
Panelist, “Remembering the Modern Houses of Postwar South Florida,” (with Jean-Francois Lejeune), Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Miami, September 2004
Panelist, “Postwar Influences on Contemporary House Design,” Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Miami, November 2004
Panelist and Moderator, “The Roots of Modernism in Miami,” The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, November 2004
Speaker, “The Florida Tropical Home,” Miami Beach Community Development Corporation Educational Program, The Seymour Building, Miami Beach 2004
Panelist, “Symposium: Mid-Century Modern Architecture in Hollywood,” City of Hollywood, Florida 2004
Lecturer, “Robert Law Weed: Miami Architect”, Miami Beach Community Development Corporation Educational Program, The Seymour Building, Miami Beach 2003
Panelist, “Architecture and Urbanism in Las Americas (AULA): Miami Tropical,” Books & Books, Coral Gables, October 2002
Speaker, “The Making of Miami Beach,” (with Jean-Francois Lejeune), Books & Books, Coral Gables , October 2002
Speaker, “The Making of Miami Beach,” (with Jean-Francois Lejeune), The Wolfsonian / FIU, Miami Beach, October 2002
Lecturer, “Revitalizing South Florida: Case Studies of the New Urbanism,” Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA) World Congress, Berlin, July 2002
Panelist, “Lessons of Miami Beach,” Panel Moderator, CNU X, Miami Beach, June 2002
Speaker, “Miami Architecture: Downtown Skyscrapers,” Miami Beach Community Development Corp. and the Urban Arts Committee, The Seymour Building, Miami Beach, May 2002
Speaker, “Dreaming into the Grid: Entrepreneurial Traditions of Space Making in Miami,” International Seminar on Urban Form, Cincinnati, OH, September 2001
Speaker, “The Making of Miami Beach” (with Jean-Francois Lejeune), Books & Books, Miami Beach 2001
Speaker, “The Making of Miami Beach,” The Tides Hotel, Sponsored by the City of Miami Beach, August 2001
Lecturer, “Igor Polevitzky: from Miami to the Caribbean,” Schinkel in the Caribbean Conference, Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña (UNPHU),, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, November 2001
Speaker, “The Making of Miami Beach,” Architecture and Urban Design as Placemaking Conference, Cormorant Club, Christensted, St. Croix, V.I., November 2001
Lecturer, “Biscayne Boulevard,” Design & Architecture Day 2000, Miami, October 2000
Lecturer, “A Tale of Two Neighborhoods: Miami Beach Case Studies in Redevelopment,” Regional Redevelopment Conference, Sachsen - Anhalt, Piesteritz (Lutherstadt-Wittenburg), September 2000
Panelist, “An Urban Phenomenon: Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, USA,” University of Miami (with Jean-Francois LeJeune & Jose Gelabert-Navia), September 2000
Lecturer, “Paul Philippe Cret: Modern Classicism and Civic Art,” University of Miami School of Architecture, Coral Gables, April 2000
Moderator, “A Conversation with Norman Giller,” Miami Beach Community Development Corporation, August 1999
Speaker, “The Residential Architecture of Igor Polevitzky,” Miami Design Preservation League, Miami Beach, December 1999
Lecturer, “The Atmospheric Envelope: Igor Polevitzky Vision of a Modern Florida,” The Wolfsonian/FIU and Miami Design Preservation League, Miami Beach, December 1997
Lecturer, “Igor Polevitzky: The Urbane Sophisticate,” Miami Design Preservation League, 1997
Speaker, “Lincoln Road: In the Heart of Miami Beach,” Miami Design Alliance, 1997
Lecturer, “From Boulevard to Mall - Lincoln Road 1960,” Special Lecture Series - Lincoln Road: The Road that Divides / The Road that Unites, Florida International University School of Design, Miami, 1995
Panelist and Moderator, “Miami Beach: Defining the Significance and Integrity of the Historic Architectural District,” Miami Design Preservation League, Miami Beach, 1994
Lecturer, “Miami Beach: A Case Study of Modern Housing,” International Style Architecture, Tel Aviv, Israel Conference, May 1994
Speaker, “Bauhaus on the Beach: A Typology of Miami Beach Housing,” Miami Design Preservation League, Miami Beach, December 1994