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Lapidus, Morris
1902 - Born in Odessa, Ukraine on the 25th of November.
1940 - He worked for 20 years as a retail designer before moving to Miami Beach in the designing his first buildings.
1952 - He landed the job of the largest luxury hotel in Miami Beach.
1956 - He is most associated with, the Fontainebleau Hotel, which was followed the next year by the equally successful Eden Roc and the Americana.
1970 - Architectural League exhibit in New York began the serious appraisal of his work. Lapidus tried to ignore the critical panning, but it had an effect on his career and reputation.
1984 - He burned 50 years' worth of his drawings when he retired and remained personally bitter about some aspects of his career.
1992 - Lapidus' wife of 63 years, Beatrice.
2001 - Died on the 18th of January in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Too Much Is Never Enough: The Autobiography of Morris Lapidus, Architect by Morris Lapidus (Hardcover - Sep 15, 1996) Morris Lapidus designed more than 500 retail stores, hotels, and apartments during his 60-year career as an architect. The work, chronicled in his new autobiography, "Too Much Is Never Enough", is a...  |
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Hotel architecture and the work of Morris Lapidus: A selected bibliography (Architecture series--bibliography) (Paperback - May 17, 1985) |
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40 years of art and architecture, Morris Lapidus: [exhibition, Feb. 4-28, 1967] by Morris Lapidus (Unknown Binding - May 17, 1967) |
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An Architecture of Joy by Lapidus Morris (Hardcover - May 17, 1979) |
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A pyramid in Brooklyn by Morris Lapidus (Unknown Binding - May 17, 1989) |
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Morris Lapidus: A bibliography (Architecture series--bibliography) by Lamia Doumato (Unknown Binding - May 17, 1988) |
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