In late March, the octogenarian British architect descended on the Modernist architecture-rich city on Florida s Gulf Coast for a weekend of festivities and public programming.
When ruminating on the great architectural masterpieces of the world, individuals can be quick to gravitate toward larger metropolitan areas New York or Tokyo, Paris, Mexico City, Shanghai or Dubai. And yet, so many architectural movements were born elsewhere before being integrated into the global language that informs our built environment. In fact, "you could argue,…