Laurinda Hope Spear

Spear co-founded Arquitectonica with her husband Bernardo and friend Hervin Romney. Arquitectonica translates to "architectural" in Spanish and embodied principles of Modernism. One of Spear's designs, the Atlantis tower, became a symbol of Miami, due to its frequent appearances on Miami Vice. Although the commissions the firm received originally were contained to Miami, the firm has since broken national boundaries. Spear has designed several hundred buildings located around the world. Spear designed the Dijon Urban Complex and Performing Arts Center in Dijon, France in 1991-1998 and the Miami International Airport Terminal in Miami, Florida, in 1996-2005.

Spear was awarded the Rome Prize in Architecture in 1978. She did not, however, complete the full eleven-month fellowship term at the American Academy of Rome, having left Italy in less than two months. In 1992, she was made a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. In 1999, she was inducted into the Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame.

Spear graduated from Everglades School in 1968 and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1972 from Brown University, where she later served as a trustee for six years. She received her Master of Architecture from Columbia University in 1975 and a Master of Landscape Architecture from Florida International University in 2006.

Laurinda Hope Spear, FAIA, ASLA, LEED AP (born 1950) is an American architect and landscape architect based in Miami, Florida. She is one of the founders of Arquitectonica, the international architecture, planning, and interior design firm, which formed in 1977. In 2005, in order to further explore sustainable design principles, she co-founded ArquitectonicaGEO, a landscape architecture firm.