Modern Dwelling, Lecture 1: Brian Healy

Join the first in our lecture series: Modern Dwelling, with speaker Brian Healy.

RESCHEDULED: NEW DATE

Modern Dwelling Series

Brian Healy, Brian Healy Architects

Wednesday, April 16

6:00 - 7:00pm

The Pavilion, 265 S Orange Ave., Sarasota, FL 34236

ABOUT THE SERIES

**Discounted tickets when you buy the 3-lecture series!**

Exploring the future of housing through the lens of design, policy, and community. From design innovations to affordability strategies, and local policy frameworks.

Brian Healy, Brian Healy Architects

RESCHEDULED, NEW DATE: April 16, 2026 - 6:00 pm

Lawrence Scarpa, Brooks Scarpa Huber

March 31, 2026 - 6:00 pm

Shane Phillips, UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

April 1, 2026 - 6:00 pm

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Brian Healy is a Boston-based architect known for pursuing a distinctly American architecture rooted in place, vernacular tradition, and modern precedent. Since founding Brian Healy Architects in 1986, he has designed a wide range of buildings—residences, cultural centers, civic projects, housing, and campuses—that respond sensitively to their context and program. His work seeks to balance utility and experience, engaging the rhythms of everyday life while referencing the legacy of figures like Wright and Sullivan. Healy’s projects often articulate space through thoughtful gestures—cranks, lifts, and angles that respond to views, light, and site conditions. He has also contributed as an educator at Yale, Harvard, MIT, Penn, and other schools, and his collected works are published in Commonplaces: Working on an American Architecture, illustrating his longtime commitment to an architecture that is both poetic and practical.