// Campus and Facilities
:: Marion Manley Studios U-SoA studio facilities overlook Lake Osceola at the heart of the Coral Gables campus. The studios were designed by Frank E. Watson, Associate in the firm of Robert Law Weed, and Marion Manley, Associate Architect for the University, and the first registered female architect in South Florida. The U-SoA buildings were part of a complex built in 1947 to house the returning veterans of World War II. With much of the complex still functioning as campus housing, the current compound around the courtyard was modified in 1983 to house offices, studios, and classrooms of the School of Architecture.