Home Plus OfficeSTRANGs Max Strang reintroduces Gene Leedy, a midcentury Florida modernistByDavid Rifkind January 22, 2025(Cody James)SHAREThe recent restoration of two important buildings by Gene Leedy has garnered renewed interest in the architects influence on Florida modernism. The house Leedy built for himself in 1957, shortly after leaving the office of Ralph Twitchell and Paul Rudolph, brought the tropical cosmopolitanism of the Sarasota School to the central Florida town of Winter Haven, while his nearby office project marked the transition to a formal vocabulary of precast concrete that he would employ in civic, commercial, and residential projects over a 60-year career. Max Strang, architect and founder ofSTRANG, grew up in a midcentury Leedy home. Strang would eventually work in Leedys office and attend his alma mater, the University of Florida. At STRANG, Max has spent decades grappling with Leedys legacy, which emphasized site specificity, structural expression, and a concern for sustainability. Then, when Leedy passed away in 2018, Strang acquired the two properties that had served as his mentors home and office for 58 and 62 years, respectively. He promised to restore them faithfully.Read more about the restorations on aninteriormag.com.