“I always tell people who work with me, ‘I wouldn’t ask you to do anything I wouldn’t do,” says Marty Hylton III. “But then I tell them, ‘The thing is, I’ll do anything.’” It’s an attitude that’s served him well: as the first-ever president of Florida preservation-and-educational nonprofit Architecture Sarasota, Hylton has spent the better part of two years using his singular sense of drive to turn the nascent organization into a regional force, fighting to save local landmarks and spread awareness of the sunny coastal city’s unique cultural heritage. This month, his efforts—and those of his no-less-motivated colleagues—got a big ovation.
On March 21, Architecture Sarasota welcomed guests from near and far for the unveiling of a new exhibition chronicling the city’s Modernist history; days later, Hylton and company presented the second-annual Philip Hanson Hiss Award, recognizing an architect whose work extends the tradition of the postwar Sarasota School into contemporary practice. The honoree this year (following the inaugural recipient in 2023, Toshiko Mori): Lord Norman Foster, who was on the scene to deliver a lecture on his work and to receive the prize.
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