Ralph Twitchell

Ralph Spencer Twitchell
Ralph Twitchell at the construction of the Healy Guest House (aka "Cocoon House"), 1950
Born	(1890-07-27)July 27, 1890 Mansfield, Ohio
Died	January 30, 1978(1978-01-30) (aged 87) Sarasota, Florida
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Rollins College McGill University Columbia University B.A. Design (Architecture) M.A. Architecture
Occupation	Architect
Children	Sylva Hutchins, Tollyn Twitchell, Terry Twitchell, Debbie, Aaron Twitchell
Practice	Associated Builders Twitchell and Rudolph
Buildings	Cà d'Zan Twitchell House Hodge House Healy Guest House Revere Quality House Lamolithic Houses Sarasota County Courthouse Miller House and Guest Cottage MacKinlay Kantor Residence Leavengood Residence

Ralph Spencer Twitchell (July 27, 1890 – January 30, 1978) was one of the founding members of the Sarasota School of Architecture. He is considered the father of the group of modernist architecture practitioners, including Paul Rudolph, Jack West, and other modernist architects active in the Sarasota area in the 1950s and 1960s like Ralph and William Zimmerman, Gene Leedy, Mark Hampton, Edward “Tim” Seibert, Victor Lundy, William Rupp, Bert Brosmith, Frank Folsom Smith, James Holiday, Joseph Farrell, and Carl Abbott. He bridged the more traditional architecture of his early work in Florida during the 1920s with his modernist designs that began in the 1940s.^[1]