Live in Miami? Mark your calendar! Meetinghouse, a contemporary art space collective in the penthouse of the historic Huntington Building in Miami, announces the opening of its Fall 2016 exhibition series with Aurora Roomand Type-topia — two installations blending art and architecture, on the evening of September 22nd.

Type-Topia is an idealized and fictitious composite city created from the collaged combination of nine public institutional projects by Khoury Levit Fong (KLF), the firm of Associate Professor Robert Levit, Associate Professor Steven Fong, and former Daniels faculty member-turned Dean of the University of Miami's School of Architecture Rodolphe el-Khoury.

The interactive model calls attention to the iconic status of notable public spaces and buildings in shaping the identity of cities, highlighting the role that architecture can play in the constitution of a geography of monuments. Just as New York has been represented through its monumental icons such as the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center, or Paris by the Eiffel Tower and the Arc-de-Triomphe, Type-Topia is imagined through a series of graphic representations of its civic monuments. Using programmed QR tags, visitors can interact with each project proposal. The composite city becomes a historical metropolis in which the iconic elements instantaneously become memorabilia of this fiction, complete with travel posters and postcards.

Meetinghouse Fall 2016 Opening Night!
Thursday, Sept 22nd
from 7pm to 10pm

Exhibition Design by Robert Levit with Dorsa Jalalian (MUD 2016) and Nick Reddon (current MArch student)
Principals in Charge: Rodolphe el-Khoury and Robert Levit