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Sebastian Serrano

Jenna Courtade

  • Visiting Librarian for Architecture Archives and Reading Room Services
  • jmc525@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-3354

Gilda Santana

  • Director, Architecture Research Center / Art & Art History Librarian
  • gsantana@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-5282

Sebastian Serrano

Jenna Courtade

  • Visiting Librarian for Architecture Archives and Reading Room Services
  • jmc525@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-3354

Gilda Santana

  • Director, Architecture Research Center / Art & Art History Librarian
  • gsantana@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-5282
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Sebastian Serrano

Jenna Courtade

  • Visiting Librarian for Architecture Archives and Reading Room Services
  • jmc525@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-3354

Gilda Santana

  • Director, Architecture Research Center / Art & Art History Librarian
  • gsantana@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-5282
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Sebastian Serrano

Jenna Courtade

  • Visiting Librarian for Architecture Archives and Reading Room Services
  • jmc525@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-3354

Gilda Santana

  • Director, Architecture Research Center / Art & Art History Librarian
  • gsantana@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-5282
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Sebastian Serrano

Jenna Courtade

  • Visiting Librarian for Architecture Archives and Reading Room Services
  • jmc525@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-3354

Gilda Santana

  • Director, Architecture Research Center / Art & Art History Librarian
  • gsantana@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-5282
Book a Consultation
Subject Specialist

Sebastian Serrano

Jenna Courtade

  • Visiting Librarian for Architecture Archives and Reading Room Services
  • jmc525@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-3354

Gilda Santana

  • Director, Architecture Research Center / Art & Art History Librarian
  • gsantana@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-5282
Book a Consultation
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Featured Open Access Collections
Subject Specialist

Sebastian Serrano

Jenna Courtade

  • Visiting Librarian for Architecture Archives and Reading Room Services
  • jmc525@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-3354

Gilda Santana

  • Director, Architecture Research Center / Art & Art History Librarian
  • gsantana@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-5282
Book a Consultation
E-Resources
Databases & Indexes
Subject Specialist

Sebastian Serrano

Jenna Courtade

  • Visiting Librarian for Architecture Archives and Reading Room Services
  • jmc525@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-3354

Gilda Santana

  • Director, Architecture Research Center / Art & Art History Librarian
  • gsantana@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-5282
Book a Consultation
Subject Specialist

Sebastian Serrano

Jenna Courtade

  • Visiting Librarian for Architecture Archives and Reading Room Services
  • jmc525@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-3354

Gilda Santana

  • Director, Architecture Research Center / Art & Art History Librarian
  • gsantana@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-5282
Book a Consultation
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Subject Specialist

Sebastian Serrano

Jenna Courtade

  • Visiting Librarian for Architecture Archives and Reading Room Services
  • jmc525@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-3354

Gilda Santana

  • Director, Architecture Research Center / Art & Art History Librarian
  • gsantana@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-5282
Book a Consultation
UM Libraries Archives & Special Collections
Subject Specialist

Sebastian Serrano

Jenna Courtade

  • Visiting Librarian for Architecture Archives and Reading Room Services
  • jmc525@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-3354

Gilda Santana

  • Director, Architecture Research Center / Art & Art History Librarian
  • gsantana@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-5282
Book a Consultation
Subject Specialist

Sebastian Serrano

Jenna Courtade

  • Visiting Librarian for Architecture Archives and Reading Room Services
  • jmc525@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-3354

Gilda Santana

  • Director, Architecture Research Center / Art & Art History Librarian
  • gsantana@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-5282
Book a Consultation
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Subject Specialist

Sebastian Serrano

Jenna Courtade

  • Visiting Librarian for Architecture Archives and Reading Room Services
  • jmc525@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-3354

Gilda Santana

  • Director, Architecture Research Center / Art & Art History Librarian
  • gsantana@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-5282
Book a Consultation
Finding, Requesting, and Viewing Materials

Prior to your visit you can search the online systems to locate needed materials. You can find books, journals, and manuscripts housed in the ARC special collections by searching the library catalog, the University of Miami online catalog.

You can find archival collections through the ARC’s online Finding Aids. Once you find the Collection you are looking for in the database, you can request materials from individual collections via the request forms.

Once you have located the materials you wish to request, please use one of the two forms below.

Architecture Research Center New Research Request form – Use this form if this is your first time completing a research request at the ARC.

Architecture Research Center Research Request form – Use this form if you have previously submitted a research request at the ARC.

Users will be asked to abide by standard special collections guidelines while using materials in the department. Users must fill out a Conditions of Use Agreement form.

Rachel Thomas. 2004. River of Grass.

Hometown Map Collection

Citing Collections
Proper credit needs to be assigned to all published materials. Citations should include full bibliographic information and read:
[Collection Name – if applicable]. Architecture Research Center, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida. [Date of Access].
Architecture Collections - Otto G. Richter Library
Florida Architecture Archives
International Architecture Archives
Subject Specialist

Sebastian Serrano

Jenna Courtade

  • Visiting Librarian for Architecture Archives and Reading Room Services
  • jmc525@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-3354

Gilda Santana

  • Director, Architecture Research Center / Art & Art History Librarian
  • gsantana@miami.edu
  • (305) 284-5282
Book a Consultation
Papers, Technical Reports
Done, James M, Simmons, Kevin M, and Czajkowski, Jeffrey. "Relationship between Residential Losses and Hurricane Winds: Role of the Florida Building Code." ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering 4, no. 1 (2018): 4018001.

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