2025 Philip Hanson Hiss Award Honoring OLIN Celebration and Ceremony

2025 Philip Hanson Hiss Award Celebration and Ceremony Honoring OLIN

Friday, March 27, 2025

6:00pm

Marie Selby Botanical Garderns

1534 Mound St., Sarasota, FL 34236

Individual Tickets: $1,000 (add'l fees apply, $700 tax-deductible)

To request an invoice for check of cash payment, please contact ad@architecturesarasota.org

Table Sponsorships Available, see below for details.

ABOUT THE PHILIP HANSON HISS AWARD

Architecture Sarasota’s prestigious annual award honors today’s pioneers and champions of innovative design within the global built environment and commemorates the legacy of Philip Hanson Hiss III (1910-1988). Hiss was a driving force and major proponent of the Sarasota School of Architecture. Past Award recipients include architects Toshiko Mori and Lord Norman Foster.

Philip Hiss believed good design was integral to a larger set of values and practices that defined the Sarasota School. These principles included designs adapted to the natural environment and responsive to the socio-cultural context; a spirit of experimentation, innovation, and transformation; and a commitment to democratic ideals and civic responsibility, including accessibility for all. Presented annually, the recipient makes a presentation and the award is bestowed at a dinner celebration.

ABOUT OLIN

OLIN is a design studio with a mission.

They are a team of enthusiastic landscape architects, planners, urban designers, and support staff. From their two locations in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, OLIN is dedicated to creating distinguished landscapes and urban designs worldwide.

OLIN’s work is predicated on developing innovative and tailored approaches to social engagement, environmental and social responsibility and justice, and financial and operational sustainability in the context of awe-inspiring and beautiful designs built with finesse and craft. Their award-winning projects cross boundaries of scale, typology, and site condition, yet are all driven by their central mission: to create places that enhance life.

Beautiful and conscientiously crafted landscapes have a potential to be catalysts for human interaction, recreation, and community. While beauty and craft are integral to our practice, OLIN doesn’t stop there. They approach each project individually, basing design decisions on the underlying expressive power of a particular site in conjunction with specific programmatic possibilities. They synthesize and integrate their findings and aspirations in new site elements and systems that are amplified and layered to create resilient designs that have the power to positively influence communities.

OLIN’s appreciation for the need to constantly deepen their understanding of the unique complexities of urbanity is paramount. They do this by committing to research, education, and technological advancement under the umbrella of OLIN LABS, articulated through five labs: eco, people, tech, design, and build. OLIN engages clients in the beginning by identifying their ambitions and direction for innovation. This approach stimulates deep reflection on the design process, drives passion for exploration, encourages discourse, and provokes them to question assumptions, which in turn, directly informs the project.

By blending values and inquiry, craft, and creativity, OLIN has built a renowned landscape architecture practice over more than forty years, and we thrive in our continued evolution.

TABLE SPONSORSHIPS AVAILABLE

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For more about the Hiss award and to sponsor a table, contact president Marty Hylton at mh@architecturesarasota.org