Mod Mod World

Sarasota MOD Weekend Honors a Century of Sarasota Architecture

This year's theme is "Moderns That Matter," and while a number of events are sold out, there's still plenty to see and do.

11/12/2025 By Megan McDonald

MOD This Way

This Year's Sarasota MOD Weekend Has a Big Focus on Resilience

"I have no doubt Sarasota will rise to this challenge. The opening event of MOD will be a celebration of our collective resilience."

11/11/2024 By Kim Doleatto

A Century of Genius

Remembering the Late Victor Lundy, the Architect Behind Some of Sarasota’s Most Famous Buildings

Lundy, who passed away on Nov. 4, 2024, at age 101, reveled in the unconventional, breaking the rules and not being limited by traditions of thinking.

11/07/2024 By Kim Doleatto

Only in Sarasota

The Chapell Residence Is an Architecturally Significant Gem

John Pirman illustrates this curvy, colorful Lido Shores home.

09/01/2024 Illustrations by John Pirman

It's a Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod World

Architecture Sarasota Announces 2024 MOD Weekend Lineup

This year's theme is "reawakening."

08/01/2024 By Megan McDonald

Mod x 10

This Year’s Sarasota MOD Weekend Celebrates the Genius of Victor Lundy

The annual three-day festival takes place Nov. 2-5 and will celebrate the centennial of Sarasota School architect Victor Lundy—and a decade of MOD Weekend.

08/18/2023 By Kim Doleatto

Get Schooled

Essential Intelligence About the Sarasota School of Architecture

Local newcomers may not be familiar with the midcentury modern movement and its significance. Here are some design takeaways to get started.

11/17/2022 By Kim Doleatto

Lido Shores

Sneak Peek: Check Out This New Luxury Home in Lido Shores

The waterfront home has its own private beach, a guest house and Sarasota School of Architecture design elements.

11/08/2022 By Kim Doleatto

Architecture

Architecture Sarasota Announces 2022 MOD Weekend

The ninth annual festival, which runs Nov. 10-13, celebrates "tropical modernism" and looks at how natural elements shape design then and now.

10/26/2022 By Kim Doleatto

Architecture

Architecture Sarasota’s 2021 MOD Weekend Honors the Legacy of Philip Hiss

The eighth-annual architecture festival will feature exhibitions, a symposium, kayak, walking and trolley tours, and social events.

09/09/2021 By Staff Report

Preview

SarasotaMOD Weekend Reinvents Itself for the Pandemic Age

The architecture festival returns Nov. 6-8 with some novel twists to honor the career of longtime Sarasota architect Carl Abbott.

08/17/2020 By Ilene Denton

MOD World

Check Out This Sarasota MOD Weekend Video Wrap-Up

The modern architecture festival attracted attendees from as far away as Canada and Sweden.

12/10/2019 By Ilene Denton

Mod Moment

SarasotaMOD Weekend Celebrates 'Sarasota in the Sixties'

“The story of Sarasota architecture in the ’60s is that it went from the high architecture of Paul Rudolph, Tim Seibert and Victor Lundy and filtered down to the everyday person."

10/30/2019 By Ilene Denton