When illustrator John Pirman moved to Sarasota, he first lived on Siesta Key. Soon after he arrived, he set off on his bicycle in search of architect Paul Rudolph’s legendary Cocoon House.

Built in 1953 by the modern architect Paul Rudolph while living and working in Sarasota, the Umbrella House would become a centerpiece of the Sarasota School of Architecture: a localized ...

The Sarasota Architectural ... led tour of the iconic 1953 Umbrella House in Lido Shores, which many consider the finest example of famed architect Paul Rudolph’s work in the heyday of the ...

It’s gone. Another Paul Rudolph Bites the Dust: Sarasota’s Riverview High School > Preservation or Parking? Two Takes on Riverview High > Rudolph’s houses are being demolished as well — by ...

The Sarasota Architectural Foundation is celebrating the centennial of noted architect Paul Rudolph’s birth with a party at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 23 at the Revere Quality House on Siesta Key (saf-srq ...

One of architect Paul Rudolph's most famous designs is the Umbrella House, built in 1953 in the Sarasota neighborhood of Lido Shores. In 1997, Gary and Carol Stover moved to Sarasota searching for ...

Paul Rudolph's beach houses expressed the sunny side of Cold ... in paperback with an essay by the authors. Rudolph moved to Sarasota in 1941 to join the office of architect Ralph Twitchell.

Presented by the Sarasota Architectural Foundation ... asked the panelists—architect Joseph King, coauthor of Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses, and Rudolph scholars Brian Goldstein and Ken ...

Now Sarasota has a "Mod Weekend" each November, to show off its own trove of innovative buildings. Rose Marie Cromwell Paul Rudolph’s 1953 Umbrella House, with its distinctive slatted roof.

Airy and elegantly simple, they epitomize the renowned Sarasota School of Architecture, whose most famous member, Paul Rudolph, designed the city's Umbrella House and later headed Yale University ...

SARASOTA, Fla. — After Vinny and Julie Ciulla bought the “Umbrella House’’ in 2005, fans of famed mid-century-modern architect Paul Rudolph started knocking on their door asking to see ...