Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses - Softcover

Domin, Christopher; King, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568985517 ISBN 13: 9781568985510

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005

Synopsis

Paul Rudolph, one of the 20th century's most iconoclastic architects, is best knownand most malignedfor his large "brutalist" buildings, like the Yale Art and Architecture Building. So it will surprise many to learn that early in his career he developed a series of houses that represent the unrivaled possibilities of a modest American modernism. With their distinctive natural landscapes, local architectural precedents, and exploitation of innovative construction materials, the Florida houses, some eighty projects built between 1946 and 1961, brought modern architectural form into a gracious subtropical world of natural abundance. Like the locally inspired desert houses of another modern master, Albert Frey, Rudolph's Florida houses represent a distillation and reinterpretation of traditional architectural ideas developed to a high pitch of stylistic refinement. Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses reveals all of Rudolph's early residential work. Along with Rudolph's personal essays and renderings, duotone photographs by Ezra Stoller and Joseph Molitor, and insightful text by Joseph King and Christopher Domin, this compelling new book conveys the lightness, timelessness, strength, materiality, and transcendency of Rudolph's work.

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph King is an architect practicing in Bradenton, Florida.

Christopher Domin is an architect living in Tucson and a professor at the University of Arizona.

Review:

"Stoller's beautiful black-and-white photos empathetically portray Rudolph's architecture in harmony with the mangrove swamps, tropical light, and easy living of mid-century Sarasota....

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1568985517
• ISBN 13: 9781568985510
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248