Paul Rudolph: The Late Work

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ISBN: 9781568984018
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Hardcover, 224 pages
25,4 x 20,3 cm
colour/black & white
June 2003
€30,00 (excl. VAT)

Paul Rudolph: The Late Work

Roberto de Alba

The light- and breeze-filled modern houses in Florida of the 1950s – featured in Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses – and the hard-lined silhouette of Yale's Art and Architecture Building (1962) are the two images that come to mind when one thinks of Paul Rudolph. Yet, few people know the work of the last decades of his life, from the 1970s through the '90s. Published here for the first time, Rudolph's final works are explored through his masterful pencil drawings, models and photographs, as well as the last interview of his life with architect Peter Blake.

In a book that considers these projects in the context of his early success, Roberto de Alba explores the architect's buildings designed from 1969 to 1996 and includes an astonishing variety of projects, many built, such as houses, towers, bungalows, chapels, corporate buildings and urban plans of a monumental scale. All show the complicated interplay of space, light and mass that are the trademarks of Rudolph's genius.