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LOCATION
Address: Oleta River State Park
City: North Miami Beach
State: Florida
Zip Code: 33160
Nation: United States

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Type: Exhibition
Status: Project

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Date(s): 1964
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Client: The Inter-American Center Authority of the State of Florida
Architect: Paul Rudolph
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International Bazaar for the International Area of the Interama Project

The Inter-American Cultural and Trade Center - Interama - is designed to be “the first permanent international exposition in the world - designed to bring to the people of all nations the best examples of culture, festivals, sports, government, industry and leisure activities.”
Four related areas dedicated to Cultural-Festival, Sports-Leisure, International and Industrial, will “show how the people of the Americas live, work, play and prosper together in an atmosphere of freedom and cooperation.”
The project site is located on 1,700 acres of land near greater Miami, Florida known as the “Gateway of the Americas” because of its geographical location and cultural bonds with Latin America.
The project is scheduled to open in 1969. Pavilions for the site are designed by Marcel Breuer, Louis Kahn, Paul Rudolph, Dean Jose Luis Sert, Edward Durell Stone and Harry Weese. A 1,000-foot tall ‘Tower of Freedom’ is designed by Minoru Yamasaki which features a revolving restaurant and observation platform.
Rudolph’s pavilion is known as the ‘International Bazaar’. The International Bazaar is to provide space where visitors may watch skilled artisans at work and purchase the arts and crafts native to each nation.
A Federal Act (PL-89-355) is signed on February 19, 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson authorizing the Federal government to spend up to $9.5 million USD for a Federal exhibit and two years of maintenance. A bill appropriating money for the U.S. exhibit is passed by Congress on October 22, 1966 and signed into law a few days later by President Johnson.

“[There is] considerable coherence at INTERAMA. It came about partially due to the landfill site. The buildings are dependent on water, walkways and planting. They should not be thought of as a series of individual structures, but as a whole. Each architect thought in terms of the whole project. ”

— Paul Rudolph in “INTERAMA exposition hailed as full-scale experiment in urban design.” il. Architectural Record 141 (March 1967): 40.

“Rudolph arranged his International Bazaar as a collection of open-air and enclosed spaces under a series of billowing concrete canopies carefully sited for shade and ventilation.”

— David Rifkind in “Interama: Miami and the Pan-American Dream,” Cite n.78 (Spring 2009), 36-37.