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Miami Beach's Art Deco Historic District — roughly one square mile of South Beach — is the largest concentration of 1930s architecture in the world, and one of the first twentieth-century districts to be listed as a US National Historic Landmark. The architects who built here borrowed from European Art Deco and adapted it for a subtropical climate: eyebrow shades over windows to block the sun, fluted columns and pilasters for visual rhythm, white stucco surfaces that reflected the heat, and forms derived from ocean liners and streamlined machinery. The fluted column detail here is the style at its most distilled — vertical ridges catching the Florida light and casting their own small shadows, topped by a circular disc that gives the facade a finishing gesture as confident as it is decorative. Above and to the left, a palm frond crosses the blue sky. The tropics, asserting themselves in the gaps between the architecture.
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