2025 COD Miami - Save the Date

Starts:  May 1, 2025 01:00 PM (ET)
Ends:  May 4, 2025 05:00 PM (ET)
Associated with  Committee on Design

SAVE THE DATE

COD Spring Conference: Design at the Intersection of Climate, Culture, and Beauty

May 1-4, 2025
Mayfair House Hotel & Garden
3000 Florida Avenue, Miami, FL 33133

Registration opens mid-February

One might see 2025 as a pivotal time to consider how our political, economic, and societal frameworks intersect with our aspirations to preserve our heritage, encourage smart growth, defend our climate, and increase the quality of our places. Thus, the theme of our conference “Design at the Intersection of Climate, Culture, and Beauty” highlights models of regional design that try to strike a balance within these dynamic forces and relationships within the myriad challenges of physical conditions that our country contains.

One place where this diverse and dynamic conversation begins in 2025 is in South Florida, known as a regional center for design and tourism. The region provides engaging conversations of this intersection for design and climate while boasting a diverse array of urban and natural environments that many are not familiar with.  Our itinerary based in Coconut Grove takes attendees through urban and landscape environments in Miami, Miami Beach, and Coral Gables. I hope you will consider attending our conference where we will not only explore these places, but hear from practitioners and academics, which include recipients of our Institute Awards. Approximately 100 people attend these conferences, and the attendees include architects from all areas of practice and firms of different sizes.

This year's programming in Miami/Coconut Grove and  Boston builds upon recent successful conferences held in:  Austin, Texas; St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia (2017); Vancouver, Canada and Santiago and Valparaiso, Chile (2018); San Francisco, California and Basel, Lausanne, Lucerne, Chur, Vals, Switzerland (2019); Los Angeles (2022); and New Orleans, Louisiana, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2023) and Northwest Arkansas, and São Paulo, Brasília, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2024).