In collaboration with Open Space Series, I photographed the Burkhardt-Cohen Residence on Casey Key, a sliver of land caught between the Gulf of Mexico and Little Sarasota Bay. Paul Rudolph designed the original house in 1957, and stepping onto the property feels like entering a different era of architectural thinking.

What drew me to this project was the layering of time. The Cohen family has lived here since the early 1980s, and rather than simply preserving Rudolph's work as a museum piece, they invited architect Toshiko Mori to add her voice to the conversation. Her guest house floats above the ground on tall supports, a response to the reality of living on a barrier island where storms can reshape everything overnight. There's something poetic about how her elevated structure hovers among the old trees while Rudolph's original design hugs the earth below.

I found myself returning to photograph at different times of day, watching how light moves differently through each structure. The way Rudolph's low horizontal volumes anchor themselves to the site contrasts beautifully with Mori's lighter touch. Both understood that building in Florida means designing for extremes, for weather that can be gentle one moment and violent the next. This project became less about documenting architecture and more about capturing how design can accumulate meaning across generations and schools of thought.