2024 AIA Miami Hall of Fame Inductees

Marilys R. Nepomechie, FAIA
Marilys Nepomechie’s work as an architect and educator, and her local, regional, national, and international service –to the profession of architecture, to countless architecture students and emerging professionals, to her professional and academic colleagues, to our community, and to the American Institute of Architects-embodies all that this award is intended to celebrate. In 2023, AIA Florida Caribbean recognized her contributions by conferring its highest honor, the AIA Gold Medal, on Marilys.

Natividad Soto, FAIA
Natividad ‘Nati’ Soto, FAIA has demonstrated her dedication to the advancement of Architecture through her leadership in the American Institute of Architects. Serving at AIA Miami, AIA Florida and AIA National for more than 30 years, she has brought her enthusiasm, advocacy, mentorship and community involvement to effectively elevate our Association and the recognition of the importance of the Architectural Profession.

Marion Manley, FAIA (Posthumous)
Marion Manley was an American architect, the second woman registered to practice in Florida, and the thirteenth female member of the American Institute of Architects. Manley’s work encompassed vernacular architecture in residential and public buildings as she drew on local materials suitable for use in the tropical climate of South Florida.

Richard Kiehnel, FAIA (Posthumous)
Senior partner in the firm of Kiehnel & Elliott, in practice in Florida after the early 1920s. A native of Germany, he graduated in architecture at the University of Bresiau and a few months later sailed for America to begin his career in this country. Starting as a draftsman, he was employed for a time in the Chicago office of Egan & Prindeville, afterwards worked successively with Milton Dyer in Cleveland, and John M. Elliot in Pittsburgh, and practiced jointly with Mr. Elliott over a period of ten years.

Alfred Browning Parker, FAIA (Posthumous)
Alfred Browning Parker was a Modernist architect who is one of the best-known post World War II residential architects. He gained fame for his highly published modern houses in the region around Miami, Florida. Alfred Browning Parker designed well over 500 projects in his 60-year career. Parker also served as a professor emeritus at the University of Florida School of Architecture. The University of Florida is the repository of the architectural papers and drawings of Parker. In 2008 the University of Florida announced the creation of the Alfred Browning Parker Architecture Archives Endowment to support and strengthen this effort to preserve the architectural history of Florida.