After coming back from World War II in the mid-1940s, Igor B. Polevitzky opened a new office in the Brickell neighbourhood and partnered with Verner Johnson.
Illustrator J. M. Smith, Jerome L. Schilling, Samuel S. Block, and William H. Arthur were among the firm's longtime associates.
[2] In 1957, Meyer Lanksy commissioned the firm's senior partner Igor Polevitzky to design the Hotel Habana Riviera.
Along with Verner Johnson and Associates, Polevitzky collaborated with Miguel Gastón and Manuel Carrerá, two architects from Cuba.
[4] The Miami-based architectural firm was brought in to redesign the original Biltmore Yacht and Country Club after the winter of 1957, but the Cuban Revolution stopped it from ever being built.