"Moderns That Matter: Through the Decades - the 1960s & 1970s"

Moderns That Matter: Through the Decades - the 1960s-1970s

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

5:30pm-6:30pm

McCulloch Pavilion, 265 S Orange Ave

Parking is available in the lots 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 1960s

See the year-round population further explode as more neighborhoods, such as Bird Key and South Gate, are speculatively created to meet the demand. This is also the decade when the “Sarasota School” begins to appear in commercial structures, as well as the pioneering New College of Florida, solidifying the reputation of the style in the city and beyond.

THE 1970s

This decade marks the beginning of the decline of the “Sarasota School,” but not the city of Sarasota itself, which continued to grow at a miraculous pace, prompting some of the first opposition to what is later dubbed “over-development.” Counter-measures such as the further development of public facilities like the Bayfront area with the addition of the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center are introduced.

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