THE ARCHITECTURE OF PAUL RUDOLPH

Author Timothy M. Rohan unearths the ideas that informed Rudolphs architecture, from his Florida beach houses of the 1940s to his c oncrete buildings of the 1960s to his lesser-known East Asian skyscrapers of the 1990s. Situating Rudolph within the architectural d iscourse of his day, Rohan shows how Rudolph countered the perceived monotony of mid-century modernism with a dramatically expressiv e architecture for postwar America, exemplified by his Yale Art and Architecture Building of 1963, famously clad in corrugated concr ete. The ...[Llegir més]