
THE POSTWAR WORLD 1950–2000III
POPULUXE: THE AMERICAN INFLUENCE 1946–19615
MORRIS LAPIDUS AND
THE POPULIST HOTEL
ALGIERS HOTEL
Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Morris Lapidus (1902–2001), Architect
Odessa, Russia
1950
Morris Lapidus’s (1902–2001) first hotel com-
mission provided him with an opportunity to
single-handedly redefine the modern hotel, as
well as an entire district of Miami Beach that
included the Sans Souci (1949), the Nautilus
(1950), the Algiers (1950), the Biltmore Terrace
(1951), and the DiLido (1952)—all in the center
of the city on Collins Avenue.
In 1949, Lapidus received one of his largest
commissions to date—the Algiers Hotel (1950), ...