As the summer heats up to a regular boil, bartenders everywhere will dust off their bottles of Bacardi, the main ingredient in some of the season’s favorite cocktails. But for all of those whose warm-weather drinking regimens revolve around fruity daiquiris or minty mojitos, few are aware of the historic Cuban distiller’s taste for modernist design . Building Bacardi: Architecture, Art, and Identity ($60; Rizzoli) explores the architecturally significant structures that populate the brand’s rich history—from the CEO’s Philip Johnson–designed home to a Mies van der Rohe–devised administration building.

In 1961, Enrique Gutierrez and Luis Saenz of Puerto Rican firm SACMAG created the winged merendero (pavilion) in Palo Seco, Puerto Rico, a single concrete slab whose tapering points are supported on four concrete piers, to honor the brand’s centennial.

A warehouse at Bacardi’s Corporation Plant in Palo Seco, Puerto Rico, reflects the modernist architectural style that was becoming popular in Latin America in the early 1960s.

In the late 1950s Mies van der Rohe built a striking administration building—in his signature glass-and-steel style—for the rum brand in Tultitlan, Mexico.

In an effort to integrate art and architecture, in 1963 Bacardi commissioned Brazilian artist Francisco Brennand to develop murals for the north and south walls of its otherwise modernist glass Imports Tower, said to be one of the first muralized buildings in the United States, let alone Miami. Brennand is shown here in his studio, composing the azure flora designs.

In 1965, Bacardi moved its headquarters to Bermuda, which had developed into a popular pit stop for spirits during U.S. prohibition. For the International Limited Building, the brand constructed a square pavilion that nods to an earlier (but unbuilt) van der Rohe design. The entrance hall, shown here, features murals by Felix Ramos.

A 2012 art installation by Alexandre Arrechea in the Edificio Bacardi, in Havana, Cuba.