The first major study of one of the most important architects of
the postwar era Equally admired and maligned for his remarkable
Brutalist buildings, Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) shaped both late
modernist architecture and a generation of architects while
chairing Yale's department of architecture from 1958 to 1965. Based
on extensive archival research and unpublished materials, The
ArchitectureofPaul Rudolph is the first in-depth study of the
architect, neglected since his postwar zenith. Author Timothy M.
Rohan unearths the ideas that informed Rudolph's architecture, from
his Florida beach houses of the 1940s to his concrete buildings of
the 1960s to his lesser-known East Asian skyscrapers of the 1990s.
Situating Rudolph within the architectural discourse of his day,
Rohan shows how Rudolph countered the perceived monotony of
mid-century modernism with a dramatically expressive architecture
for postwar America, exemplified by his Yale Art and Architecture
Building of 1963, famously clad in corrugated concrete. The
fascinating story of Rudolph's spectacular rise and fall
considerably deepens longstanding conceptions about postwar
architecture: Rudolph emerges as a pivotal figure who anticipated
new directions for architecture, ranging from postmodernism to
sustainability.
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