Iconic Homes Tour: Umbrella House

Saturday, November 14, 2024

11:00am-12:00pm

1300 Westway Drive, Sarasota, FL 34236

Parking on street

The Umbrella House

In 1953, developer Philip Hiss commissioned Paul Rudolph to design a spec home as a physical advertisement for his new development, Lido Shores. The dominant feature of the house is the “umbrella”, giving the house its colloquial name. The shade structure is an expansive awning designed to modulate the intense Florida sun and unite the pool and home complex under one cohesive structural gesture. The original umbrella, lost during a storm in the 1960s, was carefully restored in 2015, receiving multiple awards for preservation and rehabilitation from the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation and the AIA.

Tour led by Chirstopher Wilson, Scholar in Residence, Architecture Sarasota

Host or Publisher Architecture Sarasota