Nobody Asked Me, But… No. 201: Hotel History: Architect Morris Lapidus

Stanley Turkel | September 5, 2018

By Stanley Turkel, CMHS Hotel History: Architect Morris Lapidus (1902-2001) Morris Lapidus was an architect, primarily known for his Neo-baroque "Miami Modern" hotels constructed in the 1950s and 60s, which have since come to define that era's resort-hotel style – synonymous with Miami and Miami Beach. A Russian immigrant raised in New York, Lapidus designed over 1,000 buildings during a career spanning more than 50 years, much of it spent as an outsider to the American architectural establishment. Born in Odessa in the Russian Empire (now the Ukraine), his Orthodox Jewish family fled Russian pogroms to New York when he was an in...