The Center for Architecture Sarasota held a tour Saturday at the Burkhardt-Cohen compound on private North Casey Key Road as part of its Architecture and Design Month schedule.
Architect Toshiko Mori and her client, Betsy Cohen, at the Burkhard-Cohen compound for the CFAS tour. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 10-17-2015.
The event offered a rare glimpse at an outstanding group of modernist residential structures, on a one-lane path that is barely navigable.
Paul Rudolph designed the main house in 1957; it remains an icon of his midcentury modern work early in his career.
Toshiko Mori designed a guest house, completed in 1999, and a 2004 addition to the main house. She was at the event, along with the homeowners, Ed and Betsy Cohen, and contractor Michael Walker. Cindy Peterson and CFAS members produced the event.
Mori praised the homeowners and Walker for their meticulous maintenance of the compound, which sits on 4 acres of secluded Gulf-to-bay property.
"It is a real pleasure for an architect to be able to come back to a project several years after it was completed, to see how the houses are being lived in, and families flourishing," Mori said. "And plants taking up roots and blending in with the native specimens. It has been maintained impeccably after so many years. We are honored to be able to come back and see it."
Some photos from the event.
The Center for Architecture Sarasota held a tour Saturday at the Burkhardt-Cohen house on North Casey Key Road. The original house was designed by Paul Rudolph in 1957. Architect Toshiko Mori designed a guest house in 1997 and an addition to the Rudolph structure in the mid-2000s. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 10-17-2015.
The Center for Architecture Sarasota held a tour Saturday at the Burkhardt-Cohen house on North Casey Key Road. The original house, seen here, was designed by Paul Rudolph in 1957. Architect Toshiko Mori designed a guest house in 1997 and an addition to the Rudolph structure in the mid-2000s. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 10-17-2015.
The Center for Architecture Sarasota held a tour Saturday at the Burkhardt-Cohen house on North Casey Key Road. The original house, seen here, was designed by Paul Rudolph in 1957. Architect Toshiko Mori designed a guest house in 1997 and an addition to the Rudolph structure in the mid-2000s. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 10-17-2015.
The Center for Architecture Sarasota held a tour Saturday at the Burkhardt-Cohen house on North Casey Key Road. The original house, seen here, was designed by Paul Rudolph in 1957. Architect Toshiko Mori designed a guest house in 1997 and an addition to the Rudolph structure in the mid-2000s. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 10-17-2015.
The Center for Architecture Sarasota held a tour Saturday at the Burkhardt-Cohen house on North Casey Key Road. The original house, seen here, was designed by Paul Rudolph in 1957. Architect Toshiko Mori designed a guest house in 1997 and an addition to the Rudolph structure in the mid-2000s. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 10-17-2015.
The Center for Architecture Sarasota held a tour Saturday at the Burkhardt-Cohen house on North Casey Key Road. The original house was designed by Paul Rudolph in 1957. Architect Toshiko Mori designed a guest house in 1997, to which this path leads, and an addition to the Rudolph structure in the mid-2000s. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 10-17-2015.
The Center for Architecture Sarasota held a tour Saturday at the Burkhardt-Cohen house on North Casey Key Road. The original house, seen here, was designed by Paul Rudolph in 1957. Architect Toshiko Mori designed a guest house in 1997 and an addition to the Rudolph structure in the mid-2000s. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 10-17-2015.
The Center for Architecture Sarasota held a tour Saturday at the Burkhardt-Cohen house on North Casey Key Road. The original house, seen here, was designed by Paul Rudolph in 1957. Architect Toshiko Mori designed a guest house in 1997 and an addition to the Rudolph structure in the mid-2000s. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 10-17-2015.
The Center for Architecture Sarasota held a tour Saturday at the Burkhardt-Cohen house on North Casey Key Road. The original house was designed by Paul Rudolph in 1957. Architect Toshiko Mori designed a guest house in 1997 and an addition, seen here, to the Rudolph structure in the mid-2000s. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 10-17-2015.
The Center for Architecture Sarasota held a tour Saturday at the Burkhardt-Cohen house on North Casey Key Road. The original house, seen here, was designed by Paul Rudolph in 1957. Architect Toshiko Mori designed a guest house in 1997 and an addition, seen here, to the Rudolph structure in the mid-2000s. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 10-17-2015.
The Center for Architecture Sarasota held a tour Saturday at the Burkhardt-Cohen house on North Casey Key Road. The original house was designed by Paul Rudolph in 1957. Architect Toshiko Mori designed a guest house in 1997 and an addition, seen here, to the Rudolph structure in the mid-2000s. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 10-17-2015.
The Center for Architecture Sarasota held a tour Saturday at the Burkhardt-Cohen house on North Casey Key Road. The original house was designed by Paul Rudolph in 1957. Architect Toshiko Mori designed a guest house in 1997 and an addition to the Rudolph structure in the mid-2000s.This is the exterior staircase in the addition, which has views of Little Sarasota Bay. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 10-17-2015.
The Center for Architecture Sarasota held a tour Saturday at the Burkhardt-Cohen house on North Casey Key Road. The original house was designed by Paul Rudolph in 1957. Architect Toshiko Mori designed a guest house in 1997 and an addition to the Rudolph structure in the mid-2000s. This is the bathtub in the addition. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 10-17-2015.
The Center for Architecture Sarasota held a tour Saturday at the Burkhardt-Cohen house on North Casey Key Road. The original house was designed by Paul Rudolph in 1957. Architect Toshiko Mori designed a guest house, seen here, in 1997 and an addition to the Rudolph structure in the mid-2000s. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 10-17-2015.
The Center for Architecture Sarasota held a tour Saturday at the Burkhardt-Cohen house on North Casey Key Road. The original house was designed by Paul Rudolph in 1957. Architect Toshiko Mori designed a guest house, seen here, in 1997 and an addition to the Rudolph structure in the mid-2000s. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 10-17-2015.
Contractor Michael Walker built the additions to tje Burkhardt-Cohen property on North Casey Key Road. He says it has been a career highlight. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 10-17-2015.
