Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses

[Rudolph, Paul, architect]. Domin, Christopher and Joseph King. Photographs by Ezra Stoller

ISBN 10: 1568982666 / ISBN 13: 9781568982663

Published by New York: Princeton Architectural Press, [2002]., 2002

About this Item

First printing. Oblong quarto, 237 numbered pages, index at rear, black and white photographic and line illustrations, publisher s pale brown cloth lettered in gray (corners bumped with mild rubbing, and a small bump at lower edge, else very good). Pictorial dust jacket (minor wear, very good or better). Laid-in: an invitation to this exhibition at The South Florida Museum.

Seller Inventory # 08179

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses
• Publisher: New York: Princeton Architectural Press, [2002].
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568982666
• ISBN 13: 9781568982663
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture and Design

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Synopsis

Paul Rudolph, one of the twentieth century’s most iconoclastic architects, is best known – and most maligned – for his large “brutalist” buildings, like Yale’s 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 developed to a high pitch of stylistic refinement. Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses reveals all of Rudolph’s early residential work. 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 the Author

Christopher Domin is a practicing architect. He is Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico and lives in Albuquerque, NM.

Joseph T. King is a practicing architect. He is principal at Joseph T. King Architects.