Architecture Sarasota MOD Weekend has just celebrated its tenth year, spreading from the Florida city's Downtown to the Lido and Siesta Keys, with a tour that wound through the area's distinctive modernist architecture designs of world-renowned 20th-century professionals.
It is a city where, in early November, the climate is breezy and temperate, and roads are lined with queen palm and banyan trees whose roots sink into the earth amid piles of sun-bleached seashells. A midcentury, post-war migration to this part of the US Sunbelt gave Sarasota a population boost and with that a sudden need for housing suited for Florida's subtropical climate; and the architects followed.
