Albert Anis

Albert Anis (1889-1964), was a renowned Art Deco Architect. He was one of a group of American-born architects working in Miami Beach who synthesized the austere architectural principles of the International Style with their own brand of modernism which embraced the ornamentation and exotic lure of tropical Miami Beach.

Career

Anis was the architect for a number of outstanding Art Deco-style buildings in Chicago in the 1920s, and hotels on Ocean Drive. His vast design output would forever shape Miami Beach in the distinctive style for which it is so famous today. Among his most noted works are:

*"The Waldorf Towers Hotel" (1937)
*"The Abbey Hotel" (1940)
*"The Winterhaven Hotel' (1937)
*"The Temple Emanuel" (1947)
*"The Mantell Plaza" (1942)
*"The Leslie Hotel" (1937)
*"The Viscay Hotel" (1941)