Posted on 1/12/2016
The 'Sarasota School of Architecture' was coined as an historical term by architect Gene Leedy in the 1980s to describe the unique mid-century, European-Modernism-meets-Florida architecture of the city. Here, we examine how the physical legacy of progressive architectural practice in Sarasota has (and sometimes hasn't) been preserved and reinterpreted.
When Sam Holladay arrived in Sarasota, Florida, in 1971, he was an architect just out of school during an economic downturn. A job lead sent the Florida native to Sarasota, and his knocking on doors ultimately paid off. A few weeks later, he had secured a position at a local firm, and nine months after that Holladay started with the then 16-year-old architecture studio o...