Profile
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
- Senior Lecturer, University of Miami School of Architecture
BIO
Victor Deupi is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Miami School of Architecture. His research focuses on the Early Modern Spanish and Ibero-American world, mid-20th-century Cuba, and contemporary architecture. His books include Architectural Temperance: Spain and Rome, 1700-1759 (Routledge, 2015), Transformations in Classical Architecture: New Directions in Research and Practice (Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, 2018), Emilio Sanchez in New York and Latin America (Routledge, 2020), and Cuban Modernism: Mid-Century Architecture 1940-1970, with Jean-Francois Lejeune (Birkhäuser Verlag, 2021). Dr. Deupi was the President of the CINTAS Foundation from 2016-2018 and is currently the President of the DOCOMOMO US Florida Chapter.
PH.D. DISSERTATION
Architectural Temperance: Spaniards and Rome 1700-1758
RECENT ARTICLES
- Victor Deupi, “The Architectural Photography of Annette and Rudi Rada: Modernity and Tradition in Miami and Havana,” Source: Notes in the History of Art 41, no. 4 (Summer 2022), pp 299-309. https://doi.org/10.1086/722326
- Victor Deupi, “L’Avana déco: arte cultura società, by Alessandra Anselmi,” Book Review, New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 96, 3-4 (2022), 57-58. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134360-09603030
- Victor Deupi and Eric Firley, “Miami Rising: Historical Perspectives on Sea-Level-Rise as a View into the Future,” in The Plan Journal, Vol. 2, no. 2 (2017), 187-206. https://www.doi.org/10.15274/tpj.2017.02.02.10
- Victor Deupi, “Building a Predictable Past in Cuba,” (review of Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba, by Paul Niell), Colonial Latin American Review, 25: 4 (2016), 581-583.