Paul Rudolph (architect)

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Paul Marvin Rudolph (born October 28, 1918 in Elkton , Kentucky , † August 8, 1997 in New York City ) was an American architect .

Yale A&A Building
Tuskegee Chapel (general view)
The Concourse , Singapore (design drawing)

Life

Paul Rudolph studied architecture at Alabama Polytechnic , now Auburn University . After the end of the Second World War, in which he had participated as a marine, he studied with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer at Harvard University . Since 1951 Rudolph had his own studio in Sarasota , Florida . With numerous designs for single-family houses adapted to the local subtropical climate, he is one of the leading representatives of the so-called Sarasota School of Architecture .

From 1958 to 1965 he was dean of the architecture faculty at Yale University . In 1959 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1971 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Rudolph was an early proponent of brutalism ; when this went out of fashion in the late 1970s, it turned to postmodernism . He is considered one of the most important modern architects in the USA. In 1994 Paul Rudolph was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy .

His students included Norman Foster , Richard Rogers and Robert AM Stern .

Buildings (selection)

  • 1950: Bennett House, 3901 Riverview Blvd. in Bradenton , Florida
  • 1956: David Cohen House, Siesta Key, Sarasota, Florida
  • 1957: Riverview High School, Sarasota County (demolished 2007)
  • 1959–1961: Arthur W. Milam Residence, Ponte Vedra, Jacksonville, Florida
  • 1963: Yale University Institute of Art and Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut
  • 1967: Orange County Government Center in Goshen, Orange County
  • 1969: University Chapel, Tuskegee University , Tuskegee , Alabama
  • 1987–1994: The Concourse in Singapore

literature

  • Rüdiger Paul Kühnle: Paul Rudolph and the second generation of American modernism. Dissertation, University of Stuttgart 2005 ( full text )
  • Paul Rudolph, Gerhard Schwab: Buildings and Projects. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 1970, ISBN 3-7757-0002-1 .
  • Christopher Domin, Joseph King: Paul Rudolph. The Florida Houses . Princeton Architectural Press, New York NY 2005, ISBN 1-56898-551-7 .

Web links

Commons : Paul Rudolph  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members: Paul Rudolph. American Academy of Arts and Letters , accessed April 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ All National Academicians (1825 - Present) - D: Paul Rudolph, ANA: 1983, NA: 1994. The National Academy , accessed May 6, 2019.
  3. ↑ Open plan, prefab units cut costs Florida. In: Architectural Records (ed.): Record Houses of 1956. Dodge, New York 1956, pp. 175-79.
personal data
SURNAME Rudolph, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudolph, Paul Marvin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Elkton
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1997
Place of death New York City