Architecture firm, United States Arquitectonica began as a Miami firm created in 1976 by a group of young architects under the leadership of Hervin A.R. Romney and Bernado Fort-Brescia. Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk joined the pair a few months later, with Laurinda Spear arriving the following year. By 1984 Plater-Zyberk and Duany and Romney had left to establish their own firms. Arquitectonica’s current principles include Sergio Bakas and Jenifer Briley, who joined the firm in the early 1980s. Under the leadership of Spear and Fort-Brescia, Arquitectonica expanded to design buildings in several countries, particularly in Fort-Brescia’s birthplace of Lima, Peru, and in the Pacific Rim nations of Asia. Although it has some small residential designs to its credit, Arquitectonica has become known for large-scale projects: apartment towers, hotels and convention centers, sports facilities, government institutions, shopping malls, and financial office complexes. Arquitectonica’s ...