Paul Rudolph the Florida Houses by Christopher Domin, Joseph King (auth.)

By Christopher Domin, Joseph King (auth.)

Альбом посвящен начальному периоду творчества одного из «иконоборцев от архитектуры» - Полю Рудолфу. Более всего он известен своими масштабными и публичными проектами, но в этой книги рассматривается его творчество в частном строительстве. Paul Rudolph, one of many twentieth centurys so much iconoclastic architects, is better know--and such a lot maligned--for his huge «brutalist» structures, just like the Yale artwork and structure construction. So it is going to shock many to benefit that early in his profession he constructed a chain of homes that characterize the unmatched chances of a modest American modernism.With their designated typical landscapes, neighborhood architectural precedents, and exploitation of leading edge building fabrics, the Florida homes, a few 80 initiatives equipped among 1946 and 1961, introduced sleek architectural shape right into a gracious subtropical international of typical abundance. just like the in the neighborhood encouraged barren region homes of one other sleek grasp, Albert Frey, Rudolphs Florida homes characterize a distillation and reinterpretation of conventional architectural rules built to a excessive pitch of stylistic refinement. Paul Rudolph: The Florida homes finds all of Rudolphs early residential paintings. in addition to Rudolphs own essays and renderings, duotone images by way of Ezra Stoller and Joseph Molitor, and insightful textual content by way of Joseph King and Christopher Domin, this compelling new booklet conveys the lightness, timelessness, power, materiality, and transcendency of Rudolphs paintings.

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University of South Florida, i992): 1, 2. The authors acknowledge with gratitude Rice's 5 While still in college, Rudolph designed and supervised construction of his first extensive research on Ralph Twitchell. Much of the information that Rice utilized came house completed in early i 939, a small residence for T. R Atkinson, chairman of the from Paula Twitchell, Ralph's third wife, who made considerable efforts to record the Foreign Language Department. Sarah Miller, daughter, telephone interview by J.

Arch. 16 Paul Rudolph, "curriculum vitae," 1990s. 17 "Walter Gropiuswthe spread of an idea," L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, no. 28 (1950). History thesis, U. of Virginia, 1986): 3. The authors are indebted to McDonough for his 18 Waker Gropius, letter to Chief of Naval Personnel, November 7, 1951, copy in the insightful and wide-ranging scholarship on Sarasota and modernism. collection of James Deen, Architect, Miami, FL. 2 Philip Johnson, interview by J. King and C. Domin, New York, NY, September 23, 1998.

Augustine while going back and forth to Winter Park. The Hotel Ponce de Leon is an early example of architecture derived from Mediterranean influences that has been popular from the 1920s to the present. After working in New York and then living in France for two years, Twitchell came to Sarasota in 1925 at the height of the Florida land boom to manage construction for architect Dwight James Baum's Venetian-inspired palazzo for John Ringling. Twitchell also designed and built luxury homes in the then-popular Mediterranean Revival style.

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