Sarasota modern. txt
Andrew weaving.
- 207 p. ill. ;col. ; 26 cm. book
Include index
Introduction -- Lucienne Tiwtchell House, Big pass, Siesta key -- Revere quality house, Siesta key -- Hiss house, Lido shores -- Umbrella house, Lido shores -- Hiss studio, Lido shores -- Spec house, Siesta key -- Cohen House, Bayou Louise, Siesta key -- Craney Spec houses, Winter haven -- Weaving-Thomasson house, Winter haven -- Hudson-Mcmurray house, Venice -- Jordan house, Lake Wales -- Dudley house, Sandy Hook, Siesta key -- Lu Andrews house No. 3, Sarasota mainland -- Cichon/Mitchell house, Sarasota mainland -- Twitchell Hutchins house, Casey key -- Putterman house and other Abbott work -- Burkhardt/Cohen house, Casey key -- Silverstein house, Casey key --
Sarasota in the 1950s was a small community graced with an alluring natural beauty. What set it apart from so many Florida beachfront towns was the concentration of artists, writers, and architects who gathered there—including author MacKinley Kantor and architects Paul Rudolf and Ralph Twitchell—a unique confluence of talented and daring architects coupled with a hip crowd willing to take risks. Sarasota was a place in which innovation and experimentation were the order of the day, a place where an architect might run into the local watering hole to shout: "I just invented the sliding glass door." Such was the confluence of art and architecture that laid the groundwork for the Sarasota School of Architecture, so named after the fact by architect Gene Leedy at an American Institute of Architecture (AIA) conference in the 1980s to refer to the unique architecture of this region, an architecture that is wonderfully responsive to Sarasota's sub-tropical environment and which has achieved international importance for its beauty, intelligence, and style. Today, Sarasota's treasures are being rediscovered by lovers of innovative architecture, who are buying and restoring these prized homes; but also, unfortunately, by developers, who are recklessly knocking them down. Sarasota Modern, the first book of its kind to focus exclusively on this vibrant community, offers the reader an intimate look into the stunning houses as they are lived in today.
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