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I think it is important to look at architectural styles today. What is being built? Are the buildings appropriate for how we live and work in Southwest Florida? Are buildings today as well-suited to the sub-tropical climate as the early architecture built purely for function?

When I moved to London in 1989, although I was born in the Midwest, I'd already spent a good part of my life in Florida -- not to mention Italy -- and I'm not one of those northern girls who likes to hibernate 10 months of the year. I made a pact with my English architect husband that I'd stay in his miserable gray country only if we could design and build a house that allowed me to pretend that I still lived in Florida.