As an architect, Matthew Kragh loves modern design, but as a Naples dweller, he lives under a Mediterranean-style tile roof.

The native Hoosier and former Chicagoan knew he’d be working on few buildings in the international style of his hero, Mies van der Rohe, when he moved to Naples in 1997. But now he detects a crack in the ubiquitous columns that support the requisite arches that define local buildings, and he predicts there might be some cleaner-lined profiles on the horizon.
Kragh, vice president of Architectural Network Inc. and former president of AIA (American Institute of Architects) Florida Southwest, leaned back in his office on Fifth Avenue South on a recent cloudy Monday to comment on what was, what is and what might be the future of local architecture.

CS: How has the Naples area developed architecturally?
MK: The earliest buildings—aside from the old fishing camps—had to take the climate into account. Tabby mortar construction, like that used to build Palm Cottage in 1895, kept some of the earliest homes cool. Because there was no air-conditioning in those early days, cross ventilation and verandahs were also important.

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