About Architecture Sarasota MOD Weekend 2021
Architecture Sarasota MOD Weekend
November 11 - 14, 2021
Join modern architecture enthusiasts in celebrating the regional modernism that defines Sarasota's design legacy.
About the Sarasota School of Architecture
In the years after World War II, a group of Sarasota-based architects adapted the principles of mid-century modernist design to the unique demands of Florida’s environment in a sleepy artists’ colony off the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. The movement they created helped transform the small town into a cosmopolitan cultural center—and eventually became known as the Sarasota School of Architecture. Today, the movement’s impact goes far beyond the region where it was born. Such celebrated architects as Paul Rudolph, Ralph Twitchell, Victor Lundy, Tim Seibert and Carl Abbott established a globally significant legacy of fearless originality, raw talent, restless invention, honest materials, and design for a human scale. Today, many contemporary modernists continue to build on that legacy, and keep the movement alive.
“There’s a reason a handful of communities in the world stand out for architectural innovation. Sarasota’s one of them. You really do have to see it to believe it.”
– Carl Abbott FAIA, original member of the Sarasota School of Architecture
About Architecture Sarasota
Architecture Sarasota stewards the legacy of the Sarasota School of Architecture and provides a forum for the education, advocacy and celebration of good design in the global built environment.
Architecture Sarasota was Founded in 2021, with the coming together of the Center for Architecture Sarasota and the Sarasota Architecture Foundation. Architecture Sarasota is pleased to continue MOD, now in its 8th year. The 2021 MOD celebrates "The Man Who Made Sarasota Modern", Philip Hanson Hiss, sharing the origin story of the Sarasota School of Architecture and demonstrating the transformative power of good design.
Please visit www.architecturesarasota.org
About Sarasota
Sarasota is known as Florida’s cultural mecca—and for good reason. This area is acclaimed for its rich array of cultural amenities, including its own opera company, symphony, ballet, and performing arts hall, as well as a range of professional theaters, performing arts spaces, open-air arts festivals, and a world-class art and design college. Sarasota is also home to a treasure trove of galleries, antique shops, artists’ studios and fine crafts boutiques. The region’s crown jewel, The Ringling Museum, sits on a beautifully landscaped, 66-acre bayfront estate, and features the world’s most eclectic collection of both Baroque and modern art. People come from around the world to soak in Sarasota’s abundant sunshine, sink their toes into its award-winning, powdery white beaches and explore endless miles of postcard-perfect waterfront along the Gulf of Mexico.
“Sarasota in the 1950s was one of the most important places in the world for architectural creativity, where the greatest design movements of the day came together.”
— Carl Abbott FAIA
American Legacy: The Sarasota School of Architecture