Res No 035-14-14129RESOLUTION NO. 35-14-14129
A Resolution appointing David Rifkind to serve on the Parks and Recreation
Board for a two-year term ending March 3, 2016.
WHEREAS, the Mayor and Commission recognize the important contributions made by
those who serve on the various City boards and committees and wish to appoint a full complement to
each of the active boards and committees; and
WHEREAS, the City Commission desires to appoint David Rifkind to serve for a two-year
term on the Parks and Recreation Board. This appointment(s) shall expire March 3, 2016 or until a
successor is duly appointed and qualified.
WHEREAS, commencing with appointments made after January 1, 2009, Sec. 2-22 "Term
Limits" of the Code of Ordinances provides that, appointees are limited to two (2) consecutive two-
year terms of membership on a specific commission, board, or committee. After serving a maximum
of two (2) consecutive year terms, an appointee shall not be reappointed to the same commission,
board or committee unless at least one year has elapsed between the term limited position and the
effective date of commencement of the proposed appointment for a new term.
WHEREAS, pursuant to Sec. 2-22 "Term Limits" of the Code of Ordinances, this will be Mr.
Rifkind 's first two-year term.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI, FLORIDA, THAT:
Section 1. The City Commission hereby appoints David Rifkind to the Parks and
Recreation Board. This appointment is contingent on his successfully passing a required Level II
screening.
Section 2. The expiration date of this appointment(s) shall be March 3, 2016 or until a
successor is duly appointed and qualified.
Section 3. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 4 th day of March ,2014.
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Referred by: Douqlas Thompson
CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI BOARD/COMMITTEE APPLICA TION
6130 Sunset Drive
South Miami, FL 33143
Phone No. 305-663-6340
Fax No. 305-663-6348
1. I am interested in serving on the following board(s)/committee(s):
Parks and Recreation Advise
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2. Name: David Rifkind
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3. Home Address: 6387 SW 69 Street, South Miami
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7. EducationlDegree Earned: PhD, 2007 Columbia University
Pertinent Experience: trained and practiced as an architect, built sustainable hOl
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8. Community Service:
active in professional societies, have organized numerous public symposia, C(
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Date 22 February 2014
DAVID RIFKIND
EDUCATION
6387 SW 69 Street, South Miami, FL 33143 USA
973.801.7793
david.rifkind@fiu.edu
2007 Columbia University
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation: «Quadrante» and the Politicization of Architectural Discourse in Fascist
Italy (Professor Mary McLeod, advisor)
Master of Philosophy, 2001.
1997 McGill University
Master of Architecture (History and Theory).
Thesis: The All-but Architecture of Richard Serra (Professor Alberto Perez-Gomez,
advisor)
1992 Boston Architectural Center
Bachelor of Architecture
TEACHING
2007-present Florida International University
Associate Professor (promoted from Assistant Professor in 2013)
Tenure-track appointment teaching architectural history and theory in the College of
Architecture + the Arts. Courses include the undergraduate lectures History of Design
from Antiquity to the Enlightenment and History of Design in the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries, the Pedagogy and Historiography graduate seminars, and
undergraduate & graduate seminars, including Modern Architecture: Projects and
Polemics. Organized the 2008 and 2009 Paul L. Cejas Eminent Scholar Seminar
courses with Bernard Tschumi and Jeffrey Kipnis, respectively. Co-taught Studies in
Visual and Material Culture with Dennis Doordan, 2010.
Awarded tenure in June 2013.
2005-2007 University of Virginia
Lecturer in Architectural History
Two-year appointment in the department of architectural history. Courses included
the undergraduate lectures A Survey of Modern Architecture (fall 2005 and fall 2006)
and Architecture: Renaissance to Modern (spring 2006 and spring 2007), and the
graduate seminars Architecture and Design in Modern Italy (fall 2005), The Cultural
Production of Architecture (spring 2006) and Architecture and Landscape Treatises in
the Age of Enlightenment (spring 2007). I supervised two MA theses and served on
the committees of six other architecture MA theses, two PhD dissertations, and one
art history MA thesis.
2005 Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Instructor: Designing Modern Italy
History seminar on 20th-century Italian design (with special emphasis on furniture and
industrial design) for graduate design history students.
2002-2005 Parsons School of Design
Instructor: Theory of Architectural Form (three semesters)
Introductory theory seminar for graduate architecture students.
Instructor: The Cultural Production of Architecture (one semester)
Advanced history and theory seminar for graduate architecture students.
1997-2004 Columbia University
Teaching Fellow: Art Humanities -Masterpieces of Western Art (five semesters)
Undergraduate core curriculum class introducing students to the critical study of art.
Instructor: Modern Architecture in Italy (two semesters, with Lucy Maulsby)
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Graduate seminar on Italian architecture and culture from 1902-1943.
Assistant Studio Instructor: Yehuda Safran studio (one semester)
Studio design critic for 3rd-year graduate students.
Preceptor: Architectural History I & II (six semesters), American Architecture (two
semesters)
Taught sections and graded student papers in Columbia's history sequence for
graduate students in architecture.
2000 New York Institute of Technology
Professor: Survey II -Architectural History, 1400-2000
Undergraduate sU/vey of western architectural history from the Renaissance through
the present.
1999,2000 Barnard College
Instructor: The City Takes Shape: Modern Architecture and New York
Taught high-school students in Barnard's summer Pre-College Program on reading
New York, and other world cities, as a palimpsest of texts in which cultural histories
are written as architecture.
1991-4 Boston Architectural Center
Instructor: Aspects of the Contemporary City (one semester, with Santiago Perez)
Design studio for 3rd-, 4th-& 5th-year undergraduate students.
Teaching Assistant: Thesis Seminar (three semesters)
Reviewed and critiqued students' thesis proposals, counseled students individually
and helped modify the thesis program to better support independent research.
Critic: Thesis
Invited critic for six thesis students over two years.
1994-present Florida International University, University of Miami, Southern Polytechnic,
University of Virginia, Columbia University, Pratt Institute, University of
Michigan, Carelton University, City University of New York, New York Institute
of Technology
Invited guest critic for graduate and undergraduate architectural design studios.
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
2012 The Battle for Modernism: Quadrante and the Politicization of Architectural
Discourse in Fascist Italy
Centro Internazionale di Architettura di Andrea Palladio and Marsilio Editori, 2012.
Manuscript was awarded the 2011 Premio James Ackerman by the CISA Palladio.
2013 A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture, 1960·2010
Co-edited an anthology of writings on contemporary architecture with Elie Haddad
(Lebanese American University), Ashgate, 2014.
in progress Architecture's Many Modernisms
Edited volume of revised papers presented in the semi-annual htc.Workshop (see
below) at FlU, along with lectures by such prominent architects as Bernard Tschumi,
David Adjaye, Peter Rich and Fasil Giorghis. Under consideration by Routledge.
PUBLICATIONS: BOOK CHAPTERS
2014 The Radical Politics of Marble in Fascist Italy
chapter in Radical Marble, Nick Napoli and Bill Tronzo, eds. Ashgate, 2014
(forthcoming)
2013 ClAM, Corporative Urbanism and Italy
chapter in The Rationalist Reader: Architecture and Rationalism in Western Europe
1920-1940/1960-1990, Andrew Peckham and Torsten Schmiedeknecht, eds.,
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Routledge, 2013. excerpted from "'Everything in the state, nothing against the state,
nothing outside the state': Corporativist Urbanism and Rationalist Architecture in
Fascist Italy" (see below)
2013 "Urbanistica corporativa": Ernesto Nathan Rogers, BBPR and Quadrants
chapter in Ernesto Nathan Rogers 1909-1969, Chiara Baglione, ed., Franco Angeli,
2013.
2013 Principles of Italian Colonial Urbanism
Am contributing a chapter on Italian colonial urbanism to an anthology, From Africa to
the Balkans, edited by Jennie Hirsch and Lidia Santarelli, currently under review by
Ashgate.
PUBLICATIONS: PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
2013 Consuming Empire
Dumbarton Oaks Papers, v.66 (2014, forthcoming).
2012 Piani regolatori in Etiopia
Bol/effino del/a Societe} di studi fiorentini, n.20-21: «Firenze, Primitivismo e Italian ita. I
Problemi dello "Stile Nazionale" tra Italia e Oltremare (1861-1961)>> (May 2012).
2012 'Everything in the state, nothing against the state, nothing outside the state':
Corporativist Urbanism and Rationalist Architecture in Fascist Italy
Planning Perspectives, v.27 n.1 (January 2012),51-80.
2011 Misprision of Precedent: Design as Creative Misreading
Journal of Architectural Education, v.64 n.2 (March 2011),66-75.
2011-2012 Journal of Architectural Education, Best Scholarship of Design Article
Award
2011 Gondar. Architecture and Urbanism for Italy's Fascist Empire
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (December 2011),492-511.
2012 Society of Architectural Historians Founders' Award for best article by an
emerging scholar in the previous two years.
2008 Asmara
Pin-up n.5 (Winter 2008/09), 3-6.
2007 Architecture and Revolution on the Street of Empire
Scapes n.6 (Fall 2007), 26-40.
2006 Furnishing the Fascist Interior: Giuseppe Terragni, Mario Radice and the Casa del
Fascio
arq -architectural research quarterly v.10, n.2 (June 2006), 157-170.
1996 Dialectical Furniture for Highway Interchanges
Catalogue of the History and Theory Graduate Studio v.5 (1996), unpaginated.
PUBLICATIONS: REVIEWS
2013 review of Jonathan Alfred Noble, African Identity in Post-Apartheid Public
Architecture: White Skin, Black Masks, and Rebecca Ginsburg, At Home with
Apartheid: The Hidden Landscapes of Domestic Service in Johannesburg
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, v.72 n.3 (September 2013), 412-
414.
2013 review of Diane Ghirardo, Italy: Modern Architectures in History
Journal of Architectural Education, v.67 n.Z (September 2013), 308-309.
2011 review of Speed Limits (exhibition)
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Design Issues, v.27 n.3 (Summer 2011), 98-102.
2009 review of Mark Gillem, America Town
JAE, v.63 n.1 (August 2009), 150-151.
2009 review of interama: Miami and the Pan-American Dream
Cite, n.78 (spring 2009),36-37.
2009 review of Mia Fuller, Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities, and Italian
Imperialism
The Journal of Modern History (March 2010), v.82, n.1, 216-218. [solicited by the
editors]
PUBLICATIONS: WEB AND OTHER MEDIA
1998 Frank Lloyd Wright (www.pbs.org/flw)
Wrote descriptions of ten Frank Lloyd Wright buildings for a PBS-developed web site,
which ran parallel to the November broadcast of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's
documentary.
1998 The Grid in the American Landscape
PAPERS PRESENTED
Researched and wrote two chapters on the development of the American landscape
for a book by Professor Hamid Shirvani of Queens College.
2013 Colonial Cities at the Crossroads
Colonial and Postcolonial Urban Planning in Africa Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
2013 Pietro Maria Bardi, Quadrante, and the Architecture of Fascist Italy
Invited lecture, The Italians in the Centers of South-American Modernism conference,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2013 Less Rupture than Amplification: Ethiopian Cities and Italian Colonialism
Invited lecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
2013 The Endurance of the Archaic in Contemporary Architecture
The 8th Savannah Symposium, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA.
2012 The Battle for Modernism
Invited lecture, Universita degli Studi, Milan, Italy.
2012 Principles of Italian Colonial Architecture
Invited lecture, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy.
2012 The Battle for Modernism
Invited lecture, Accademia di San Luca, Rome, Italy.
2012 International Modernism in a Decolonized World
East-West Symposium, University of Miami.
2012 Consuming Empire
Invited lecture, Food and the City Conference, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC.
2012 Address to First Year Architecture Students
Invited lecture, Department of Architecture, University of Gondar, Ethiopia.
2012 Interrupted Cities: Reconstruction and Invention in Urban Strategies
Invited roundtable participant at University of Miami School of Architecture. Other
speakers were Stanislaus von Moos (Yale University), Luca Ortelli (EPFL Lausanne)
and Roberto Behar (University of Miami).
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2012 Urgency, Uncertainty, Purpose and Paradox
Keynote speaker in the What Would You Say? annual lecture, organized by the FlU
Student Programming Council and selected through university-wide voting.
2011 On Teaching African Architecture
Invited lecture, African Perspectives Conference, Casablanca, Morocco.
2011 Principles of Italian Colonial Architecture
Invited lecture, University of Bologna, Cesena.
2011 Misprision of Precedent: Design as Creative Misreading
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting. Montreal.
2009 Urbanistica corporative: Ernesto Nathan Rogers, BBPR and Quadrante
"Esperienza dell'ArchitetturaDErnesto Nathan Rogers," Politecnico di MilanoDand
Casabella magazine, Milan, Italy.
2009 Prefabricating Empire: Industrialized Architecture in Italian-occupied Ethiopia
Invited lecture, Northeastern University School of Architecture, Boston.
2008 The Very Model of a Modern Imperial Capital: Gondar
Invited lecture, "From Africa to the Balkans: New Perspectives in !talian Fascist
History and Material Culture," Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America,
Columbia University, New York.
2008 The Very Model of a Modern Imperial Capital: Gondar
EAUH Conference, Lyon, France.
2008,2010,2012 Principles of Italian Colonial Urbanism and Architecture
Invited lecture, University of Florida School of Architecture and African Studies
Department.
2008 The Very Model of a Modern Imperial Capital: Gondar
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture National Meeting. Houston.
2008 Economical, Sustainable, Portable, Imperial: Prefabricated Building in Italian-
occupied Ethiopia, 1936-1941
Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting. Cincinnati, OH.
2007 Modernity and Continuity in Ethiopian Architecture and Urbanism: the Case of
Gondar
African Architecture Today Conference, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
2006 De Firmitatis: the Importance of Impermanence
Faculty Research Symposium IV, University of Virginia School of Architecture.
Charlottesville.
2004 Furnishing the Fascist Interior: Giuseppe Terragni, Mario Radice and the Casa
del Fascio
Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting. Providence, RI.
2002 Architecture, Art of the State: P. M. Bardi and the Political Discourse of Italian
Rationalism.
Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting. Richmond, VA.
2001 1933: One or Several Rationalisms
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture International Meeting. Istanbul,
Turkey.
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2000 Hors de la cuisine: Avant-gardes and Kitchen Design, 1926-1929.
Barnard Feminist Art and Art History Conference. New York.
1998,1999 Herbert Bayer and the Dilemma of Architectural Historiography
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
1999 International Meeting. Rome, Italy. 1999 National Meeting. Minneapolis, MN.
1998 Southeast Regional Meeting. University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
1998 Mnemosene and Her Daughters: On Analogy and Autobiography, Memory and
Imagination in Le Corbusier's Poeme de I'angle droit
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture West Central Regional Meeting. St.
Louis.
1998 The All-but Architecture of Richard Serra
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Northeast Regional Meeting.
CONFERENCES AND SESSIONS ORGANIZED
2011 htc.Workshop 5
The fifth workshop featured a keynote lecture by Ola Uduku (Edinburgh College of
Art). presentations by Mabel Wilson and Peter Tolkin (Columbia University), Vandana
Baweja (University of Florida), Robert Gonzalez (Florida International University).
Prita Meier (Wayne State University) and Robert Cowherd (Wentworth Institute). and
was moderated by Vladimir Kulic (Florida Atlantic University).
2010 htc.Workshop 4
The fourth workshop featured a keynote lecture by Ken Oshima (University of
Washington). presentations by Kai Gutschow (Carnegie Mellon University). June
Komisar (Ryerson University) and Kimberly Zarecor (Iowa State University), and was
moderated by Flaminia Gennari (Vizcaya Museum).
2009 Transnational Exchange in African Architectures and Urban isms
Organized and moderated a session on architecture and urbanism in Africa at the
Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians. Speakers were Adekunbi
Oni (CUNY), Joseph Heathcott (The New School), Luce Beeckmans (Groningen
University) and Aziza Chaouni (University of Toronto).
2009 htc.Workshop 3
The third workshop featured a keynote lecture by Peter Lang (Texas A & M
University). presentations by Talinn Grigor (Brandeis University), Frances Hsu
(Georgia Tech) and Ernestina Osorio (UCLA), and was moderated by Jean-Frangois
Lejeune (University of Miami).
2009 htc.Workshop 2
The second workshop featured a keynote lecture by Fasil Giorghis (Addis Ababa
University), presentations by Colette Apelian (Berkeley City College), Vladimir Kulic
(Florida Atlantic University) and Itohan Osayimwese (University of Washington), and
was moderated by Marianne Lamonaca (The Wolfsonian-FIU).
2008 htc.Workshop 1
Initiated and organized an ongoing series of symposia at FlU in which emerging
scholars discuss current research with peers and senior scholars. These grant-
funded events focus on scholarship of modern architecture and design in Latin
America, Africa and Asia. The first workshop featured presentations by Esra Akcan
(University of Illinois at Chicago), Adnan Morshed (Catholic University) and Sarah
Teasley (Northwestern University), and was moderated by Katherine Wheeler
(University of Miami).
2007 Polis and Politics: Italian Urbanism Under Fascism
Co-organized a conference on interwar Italian urbanism with Lucy Maulsby
(Northeastern University) and Andrew Manson (Columbia University), co-hosted by
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EXHIBITIONS
Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation,
Department of Art History, and Italian Academy.
2007 Architecture's Ephemeral Practices
Co-organized a session on architecture and temporality with loanna
Theocharoupoulou (Parsons School of Design) at the Annual Meeting of the
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
2002 Partial Visions
Co-organized and moderated symposium with such speakers as Yolande Daniels,
Katherine Dean, Jerri Dodds, Catherine Ingraham, Silvia Kolbowski, Brian Brace
Taylor, and Bernard Tschumi.
1999 Last Things Before the Last?
Co-organized and moderated conference whose speakers included Ackbar Abbas,
Denise Scott Brown, Richard Ingersoll, Daniel Monk, Ben Nicholson, Joan Ockman,
Vincent Pecora, Alberto Perez-G6mez and Anthony Vidler.
2012 Metropole/Colony: Africa and Italy
Curated an exhibition of material related to Italian colonization and domestic
development projects in the Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery at the Frost Art Museum,
FlU.
2011 Salon de Bureau E.A.S.T.
Co-curated an exhibition of work in Morocco by Aziza Chaouni and Takako Tajima in
the BEA International Gallery, FlU.
2010 Trace(s) 12358
Co-curated an exhibition of graphic work by Charleston-based architect Gordon
Nicholson in the BEA International Gallery, FlU.
2009 Resource: Design in East Africa
Co-curated an exhibition of work in Kenya and Rwanda by Gainesville-based
architects Donna Cohen and Claude Armstrong in the BEA International Gallery, FlU.
PUBLISHING ACTIVITIES
2003-6 Society of Architectural Historians Newsletter
Co-edited the Society's Newsletter, with Jeannie Kim.
1996 Catalogue of the History and Theory Studio
Co-edited and published the catalogue of studio work for the graduate program in
History and Theory, School of Architecture, McGill University.
1992-94 «TheoryIPraxis»
Co-founded and edited the Boston Architectural Center's journal of stUdio design
work, built projects, and scholarly writing by students, faculty and alumni.
1987-92 Noumenon
Edited and published the BAC's student publication, a combination newsletter,
student review and critical journal.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2012 FlU Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities
2012 What Would You Say? Annual Keynote Lecture, hosted by the FlU Student
Programming Council and selected through university-wide student voting
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2011-2012 Journal of Architectural Education, Best Scholarship of Design Article Award
2012 Society of Architectural Historians Founders' Award for best article by an
emerging scholar in the previous two years
2011 James Ackerman Prize for Architectural History, CISA Andrea Palladio
2011 Applicant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Stipend
(I was one of two faculty members selected to represent FlU through a
university-wide competition process)
2011 Graham Foundation Educational Grant (to fund research in Ethiopia)
2011 American Academy in Rome Wolfson ian Affiliated Fellowship
2008 Graham Foundation Institutional Grant (htc.Workshop)
2008 Cejas Strategic Initiative Grant
2008 Wolfson ian-FlU Research Fellowship
2006 University of Virginia Faculty Summer Research Grant
2003 AIAlAAF Fellowship for Advanced Research in Architecture
2003 Columbia University Kinne Graduate Award for Research-Related Travel
2003 Parsons Faculty Research Fellowship, Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart
Design
2002 Library Research Grant, Getty Research Institute
2001 Graham Foundation Educational Grant
2001 Honorable Mention, Carter Manny Dissertation Grant, Graham Foundation
2001-2003 Art Humanities Teaching Fellowship, Columbia University
1997-2002 Departmental Fellowship, Columbia University
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
2001-present Four Square Production, Inc. South Orange, NJ, and South Miami, FL
Principal with design and construction coordination responsibilities for residential
renovation and addition projects in New York City, suburban New Jersey and Miami.
Completed projects include a steel-framed house in South Miami, which may achieve
LEED Platinum certification, an apartment renovation in Brooklyn, a loft renovation in
Manhattan and three two-story addition/renovation projects in New Jersey. All work
designed in close collaboration with Holly Zickler.
1991-5 Buck, Smith & McAvoy Architects Boston, MA
Project Manager for accessibility upgrades to seven branch libraries for the City of
Boston. Project Designer and Job Captain for addition of 15 units of accessible
housing at two sites for the Brookline Housing Authority. Project Designer for a new
community building (meeting space and administrative facilities) at an existing
Cambridge Housing Authority project.
1990 Ian Hodgson, Architect London, England
Designer
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Inspected aging buildings throughout England and Wales, diagnosed areas requiring
renovation and repair, and directed the production of necessary contract documents.
1986-90,1991 Keith Moskow, Architect Boston, MA
Designer
Designed single-family residences, retail store locations and a golf-course
community.