Lapidus is the ar­chi­tect of many of the most glo­rious ex­tra­va­gan­zas of ho­tels in Miami Beach, but was little re­spec­ted by ar­chi­tec­tu­ral cri­tics until his »rediscovery« by the Post­mo­derns. This mo­no­graph gathers most of the extant pho­to­graphs and plans, ac­com­pa­nied by a bi­lin­gual (English/German) text, and in­clu­des an essay by Mar­tina Dütt­man, an in­ter­view with La­pi­dus, a list of works, and a bi­blio­gra­phy.