On Saturday night a black-tie dinner is scheduled, and on Sunday comes a continuation of the tours.
Saturday afternoon offers self-guided walking, trolley, and kayak tours.
Saturday morning brings a symposium with scholars and discussions. 12, Architecture Sarasota will host an opening party. “He wanted to create a more design-enlightened community – not just with scholars – so everyone could be an advocate for good design,” she says.
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So this year Sarasota Mod offers the opportunity to tell the origin story of Hiss traveling the world, learning how people lived, and bringing that knowledge back to Sarasota. “He held conferences with global thinkers.” “He brought this tiny little beach town into national prominence,” she says. TIME magazine called Sarasota the model for education, thanks to his initiatives like supporting disenfranchised students – before it became standard practice. “He was not just a modernist from a design standpoint, he made Sarasota ‘modern’ as a national thought leader.” “There are neighborhoods and residential structures on our tour that have never been seen before by the public, all designed by the Hiss Atelier,” she says. Hiss was a designer himself, but not a licensed architect. “And he brought thought leaders to Sarasota from around the world.” “He was the impresario of the Sarasota School of Architecture,” Russell says. Pei to design the campus of the New School of Florida, now part of the State University System of Florida. Next door to that, he commissioned Tim Siebert to design the Hiss Studio, with a later addition by Bert Brosmith.Īs Seibert noted in the Sarasota Herald Tribune in May, 2017: “The house was Phil’s creation, but he needed someone to draw it up. Petersburg College chorus and Sarasota Concert Band will salute our armed forces' veterans at the Palladium Theater in. Hiss commissioned Paul Rudolph to design Riverview High School and Sarasota Senior High School – not to mention the Umbrella House. “However, none of his interests is stronger than architectural design” “A man of many well-developed interests, Hiss is an author, photographer, explorer, real estate developer and civic leader,” wrote the St. The group is focusing on Hiss and his groundbreaking efforts to deliver global attention – and world-class architecture – to the city of Sarasota. “They had companion missions and it made sense under the ‘stronger-together’ model,” says executive director Anne-Marie Russell. He’s slated to be the major focus of Sarasota Mod Weekend.Īrchitecture Sarasota is a new entity, created when the Sarasota Architecture Foundation and the Center for Architecture Sarasota combined their efforts to celebrate the Sarasota School of Architecture. From November 12th through the 14th, a newly formed Architecture Sarasota will celebrate the work of Philip Hanson Hiss.
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