PAUL RUDOLPH: DRAWINGS
Yukio Futagawa and Paul Rudolph
Yukio Futagawa (editor), Paul Rudolph (text), Gan Hosoya (design): PAUL RUDOLPH: DRAWINGS. Tokyo: A.D.A. EDITA, 1972. First edition. Text in Japanese, and English. A fine hardcover book in full, decorated cloth in a very good printed publishers slipcase that is mildly scuffed. An immaculate copy of this oversized book. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print and very uncommon.12.25 x 12 hardcover book profusely illustrated with multi-color, beautifully-reproduced images of Rudolphıs architectural renderings. An extraordinary production designed and printed in Japan --they donıt make them like this anymore. Highly recommended.
Contents
- Introduction
- Houses
- Housing
- Public Architecture
- Map
- List of Works
Includes magnificent renderings of The Finney Guest Cottage; The Healy Guest House (Cocoon House), Sarasota, FL; Leavengood Residence; Sanderling Beach Club Apartments; Knott Residence; Walker Residence; Cohen Residence; Bostwick Residence; Mary Cooper Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; Greeley Memorial Laboratory; Sarasota High School; Art and Architecture Building, Yale University; Parking Garage for the City of New Haven, CT; Married Student Housing, Yale University; Interdenominational Chape, Tuskegee Institute; OıBrien Motor Inn; Endo Laboratories, Long Island, NY; Milam Residence; Theme Center for 1964- 1965 New Yorkıs World Fair, Flushing, NY; IBM Research Office, East Fishkill, NY; Boston Government Service Center; Christian Science Student Center, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; Creative Arts Center, Colgate University; Court House Building, Goshen, NY; Southeastern Massachussetts Technological Institute, North Dartmouth, MA; Paul Rudolph Office; City Hall, Syracuse, NY; Chorley Elementary, Middletown, NY; Callahan Residence; New Art Building for the Manoa Campus, Honolulu, HI; Physical Science Building, TCU, Fort Worth; Hirsch Townhouse; The New York Graphic Arts Center and several others.
Paul Rudolph is one of the most inventive, versatile and controversial members of the generation of American architects that has arisen since the war. Born in 1918 in Kentucky, Rudolph was trained at the Alabama Polytechnic Institue, and at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard under Walter Gropius, whose ideas (notably on the importance of teamwork and on the role of planners in architecture) was in due time to reject as he evolved his basic principle: that urban design is the prerogative of the arcchitect.
He began his career in partnership with Ralph Twitchell, an architect thirty years his senior, in Sarasota, Florida. The partnership concentrated on designing small houses, which already showed Rudolph to be abandoning the purist austerity of Gropius. Invitations to give lectures followed, and in 1958, with a school building in Sarasota, the Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, and a project for a new American Embassy in Amman, Jordan, to his credit, Rudolph was appointed Chairman of the School of Architecture at Yale university. Among his larger projects during this period were a number in New Haven itself, including housing and the parking garage for 1500 cars. At Yale he designed the Greeley Memorial Laboratory of the Institute of Forestry, and the massive Art and Architecture Building, built in ribbed concrete.
On leaving Yale in 1965, Rudolph moved to New York, where he continues to practice. His projects have assumed proportions that his early designs for houses did not presage. The New York Graphic Arts Center project of 1967, for example, embodies a gigantic framework intended to contain mobile prefabricated units - a combination of two concepts within one scheme, and an extraordinary example of Rudolph's creative virtuosity.
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