"Moderns That Matter: Through the Decades - the 1940s & 1950s"

Moderns That Matter: Through the Decades - the 1940s-1950s

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

5:30-6:30pm

McCulloch Pavilion, 265 S Orange Avenue

Parking available in the lost East of the McCulloch Pavilion and South of Morrill Street

About the Series

The “Sarasota 100 / Moderns That Matter” Lecture Series is based on the exhibition of the same name installed at Architecture Sarasota’s McCulloch Pavilion since March 2024. Join our Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Christopher Wilson, as he takes a deeper dive into the individual decades of the exhibition and makes them come alive. Learn more about the exhibition’s featured buildings as well as other Sarasota buildings from the same time period and the development of the city since its founding.

THE 1940s

Witness the birth of the “Sarasota School of Architecture” as Ralph Twitchell and Paul Rudolph gain national attention with their innovative Modern architecture that is uniquely adapted to the extremes of sunshine and rain in the Florida climate.

THE 1950s

Watch the peak of the “Sarasota School” as like-minded architects and potential clients flock to the city, no longer as tourists but as year-round residents, prompting authorities to commission schools, beach pavilions, post offices, shopping malls, and similar projects to serve this population, as well as the establishment new neighborhoods such as Lido Shores and Sanderling.

Host or Publisher Architecture Sarasota