UPCOMING EVENTS
Architecture + Aperitif
The Keaton Residence
Thursday October 21, 2024 from 5:30 -7:30
3536 East Forest Lake Drive
Sarasota, FL 34232
Each season, the Architecture and Aperitifs events bring architecture aficionados into one of Sarasota's modern icons. This fall we begin our series with a tour of an Artist’s Family Compound designed by Tim Seibert. The Keaton family has graciously opened their home for SAF and its friends.
It was built in 1960 and has the distinction of being one of the few designs by Tim Seibert featuring a gable roof as was required by the developers at the time! It is very well represented with an impeccable mid-century modern interior, features beautiful and most generous views of surrounding nature and it bears witness to how livable a 50 year old design can be for modern day requirements!
Admission is $10 for members, $15 for non-members, and free for those who sign up as members of the SAF on the day of the event. Payment will be collected at the door in the form of cash or checks. Your RSVP is appreciated.
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Updated October 7, 2024
Upcoming Program
The Sarasota Architectural Foundation is making plans for an exciting season. Our “Architecture and Aperitif” tour was a big success in 2009 – 2010, and the new series is expected to start again at the end of September. Typically our members visit an interesting house on a Thursday evening between 5:30 and 7:30, hear about the house from the owner and an architect, and manage to enjoy a glass of wine and some nibbles in the process.
One date is already firm, at the residence of Jim and Hilary Keaton, 3536 Forest Lake Drive, Sarasota, FL 34232 on October 21, notorious as the only house designed by Tim Seibert, FAIA with a peaked roof undefined forced on him by the neighborhood’s developers.
Some have complained that these tours feature houses designed always by a tight group of the same architects. True or not, our plan this year is to cast our net widely and to show real houses lived in by real families, not only staged showplaces of architecture and interior design. We think you’ll like this series.
Plans are also being laid with the architecture departments of the University of Florida and the University of South Florida to bring distinguished speakers into Sarasota. In prior years these well-attended lectures have been given in the conference rooms of the Sarasota Herald Tribune and of the Planned Parenthood Foundation.
SAF is working with the Community Foundation of Sarasota to organize a tour of Sarasota School of Architecture buildings in the spring of 2011 for a group of visitors from around the United States and abroad.
SAF is also negotiating to bring “Living Architecture” to Sarasota, most likely in the spring of 2011. This is an astonishing series of seven films by Ila Bêka, an Italian architect and Louise Lemoîne, a French film maker, about
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the B&B Italia offices, the Fondation Beyer museum,and the IRCAM submarine in Paris, byPiano/Rogers.
The films show the vitality and beauty of architecture as witnessed by people who actually live in, use, and maintain these spaces they inhabit. Architects with the given name Xmas, and a submarine designed by two famous architects are both likely to draw a crowd.
We’re working on planning these and other activities, hope to see you at these events, and solicit ideas from you about what else you would enjoy seeing.
Updated August 2010