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Article: The Sarasota School of Architecture.
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- Florida Trend
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- July 1, 2001
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In 1952, architectural historian Henry Russell Hitchcock wrote in Architectural Review, "the most exciting new architecture in the world is being done in Sarasota by a group of young architects." Between 1941 and 1966, Sarasota became a mecca for modern architecture, unrivaled in Florida and equaled only by a few West Coast cities in California.
On Florida's Gulf Coast, a group of like-minded architects came together to debate the philosophies of Abstract Expressionism in a community with a cultural tradition ready to accept tenets of Modernist design. The result was a remarkable body of work--dubbed the Sarasota School of Architecture--that appears as fresh and ...