TIMELESS UNIVERSAL DESIGN

VS BEGRUDGING ADA COMPLIANCE

Textbook example of the difference between lousy ADA compliance and welcoming Universal Design.

Main entrance to Perez Art Museum Miami all steps.

Ramp narrow and hidden to the side.

It says you should be segregated and ashamed if you can’t do stairs.

The Americans with Disabilities Act is the floor, not the ceiling.

Competent architects, planners and designers seek creative ways to mainstream all access and mobility.

Others build monuments to their lazy shortsightedness. 

This structure was designed two decades after the ADA.

Checklist, isolating compliance is NOT a winning approach for a major civic building on the waterfront of a major international city.