The South Campus of Miami-Dade Junior College, today known as the Kendall Campus of Miami Dade College, was conceived as a largely pedestrian academic complex for a predominantly commuting student body. Parking areas were placed around the perimeter, while the centre was organized as a network of interconnected buildings, plazas, courtyards and covered walkways.

The individual buildings share a powerful architectural vocabulary of exposed and precast concrete. Strong roof plates, expressed as waffle slabs or systems of exposed beams, are carried by massive concrete piers and extend beyond the enclosed volumes below. The resulting deep overhangs create extensive shaded and naturally ventilated transitional spaces. Air-conditioned classrooms, offices and laboratories are thus combined with open-air circulation and communal areas in a direct architectural response to South Florida’s subtropical climate.

The original Brutalist campus remains largely in use as part of Miami Dade College’s Kendall Campus. Over the decades, the complex has been expanded with new buildings and additional parking facilities, altering aspects of the original campus plan. Individual buildings have also undergone interior renovations and technical upgrades to accommodate changing educational requirements.

Despite these alterations, substantial parts of the original architectural ensemble survive, including its characteristic exposed-concrete structures, plazas, courtyards and covered circulation areas. The campus is included in the Docomomo US register as an example of Brutalist architecture (last updated on September 3, 2026).