Albert Vrana

Built as part of a luxury residential property, "Day and Night" (1964) located at the Alfred Browning Parker House in Coral Gables, Florida, consisted of a pair of pieces by two artists, with Vrana's sleeping man forming the Night portion.

His free-standing "Obelisk" is a 50-ton, 60-foot high sculpture in bronze and ferrocement. According to Vrana "the sculptural forms which are cantilevered off the obelisk are stylized or abstract human forms, which relate to various artistic endeavors. A viewer can, with a moment of meditation, feel the association. This requires him to participate in the conception.". The Obelisk is located within the Arlen House residential complex located in the city of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. The sculpture is located in front of the Arlen House originally built as a luxury rental property in the 1960s, and now a condominium.

“The Story of Man" which forms the outside walls of the Rotunda at what was originally the Public Library in Miami Beach—now a structure that is part of the Bass Museum in Miami Beach—consists of sand-cast sculptured architectural panels that form the supporting walls of the building, as illustrated when the steps used in the building technique were documented by the Miami Beach City Clerk in a series of photographs taken as the work progressed in the 1960s.

Albert Vrana (1921–1994) was an American sculptor who is best known for his mid-twentieth century monumental architectural sculptures done in the Modernist style, using novel materials, such as ferrocement, and new techniques, such as sand casting using plastic Styrofoam molds to shape sculptural concrete panels and metal sculptures.