SAF LECTURE FOCUSES ON MIAMI
“Miami Modern Lost and Found” is the topic of a lecture by Beth Dunlop, editor in chief of Modern Magazine, at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19, in the Herald-Tribune Community Room, 1741 Main St., Sarasota.
Presented by the Sarasota Architectural Foundation, the lecture will focus on Miami’s modernist architectural legacy from Art Deco through the midcentury, and how it was “almost lost, then found, and the threats this legacy still faces.”
The lecture is sponsored by the Community Foundation of Sarasota County. Admission is $10 for SAF members, $15 for nonmembers and free to full-time students. Register and pay online at www.SAF-SRQ.org/event
Dunlop wrote “Tropical Cottage: At Home in Coconut Grove” (Rizzoli, 2013). Her other books include “Miami: Mediterranean Splendor and Deco Dreams,” “Great Houses of Florida (with Joanna Lombardi),” “Aqua: Modern Living by the Sea,” “A House for My Mother: Architects Build for their Families” and “Building a Dream: The Art of Disney Architecture.”
CFAS BUILDING DEDICATION
The Center for Architecture Sarasota will dedicate the Scott Building at 26 S. Orange Ave., Sarasota, as the McCulloch Center, for major benefactor Nathalie McCulloch, at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 26.
A Grand Opening Gala for the renovated building will begin at 5 p.m. Saturday, March 28, for VIP entry to the private exhibit of work by architect Joe Farrell, and 6:30 p.m. for cocktails, dinner and music. Tickets are $125 per person ($250 for VIP). Farrell will give a lecture, followed by a Q&A session with Harold Bubil, at 5 p.m. Sunday at the center.
GARDEN DIALOGUES
“Garden Dialogues” returns to Sarasota from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 28, with visits to two gardens by Sarasota landscape architect David W. Young.
The series features discussions with designers and their clients about the collaborative process. Featured are Young’s Three Oaks Residence, and Aquadisia, a beachfront estate on Siesta Key. Tickets are $45 each. Information: www.TCLF.org.