In 1965, the state of Florida began planning a permanent exposition center to promote inter-American trade and culture that was to be located on a 1,700-acre site between Miami and Miami Beach. The state invited six well-known architects – including Breuer, Louis Kahn, Paul Rudolph, José Luis Sert, Edward Durrell Stone and Harry M. Weese – to contribute designs for four “communities” representing the participating countries. The complex, which was to include national houses, a ceremonial plaza, an exhibition area, auditoriums, a conference building, information centers, and student housing, was to be completing by 1968. Breuer was hired to design Community C. The largely windowless, canted walls, and tiered steps of his auditorium and exhibition hall borrowed forms from traditional Mayan architecture as did the trapezoidal assembly building featuring a roof of prominent, gridded girders. Breuer also designed a U-shaped national house to represent Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay and low, square student housing with rooms and courtyards arranged in a pinwheel formation around a service core and connected to the rest of the site by bridges. Breuer and his partner Herbert Beckhard created working drawings for the complex, but Florida was unable to bring the project to fruition.