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  The legacy of a modern genius: Paul Rudolph, architect of the A&A building, was seen as both hero and villain | Sept ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
However, society's acceptance of Rudolph was never consistent, and the high points of his career contrast sharply with the times when he was on the brink of ruin, harangued as an architectural version of Nixon--the stubborn representative of the establishment who believed that he alone owned the blueprint for the world.
Paul Rudolph's meteoric rise was almost as rapid as his later downfall.
Rudolph, who cried when he saw how his building was altered after the fire, was virtually ruined as an architect in the United States.
www.yaleherald.com /archive/xxiv/9.26.97/ae/legacy.html   (1148 words)

  
  YAM February 1998 - The A&A Building   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The choice of Rudolph to design the building seems not to have been controversial, although many later opined that it was not a good idea for the architect and the client to be one and the same.
Rudolph had been chairman of the architecture department -- then a division of the School of Art and Architecture -- since 1958, and had begun to restore its reputation after a period of disarray in which it had lost its accreditation.
Paul Rudolph was an architect in the uncompromising mode of Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, or Ayn Rand's fictional Howard Roark.
www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/98_02/AA.html   (3506 words)

  
 Paul Rudolph - Great Buildings Online
Paul Rudolph was born in Elkton, Kentucky in 1918.
Rudolph acted as Chairman of the Department of Architecture at Yale University from 1958 to 1965.
Rudolph has displayed an interest in the problems of urban design and completed a succession of unexecuted projects.
www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Paul_Rudolph.html   (293 words)

  
 Paul Marvin Rudolph Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Rudolph's modules were designed to fit on a truck, yet be combined and unfolded into a variety of grand spaces.
Rudolph also undertook such large complexes as the uncompleted Boston Government Service Center (1962-1971), where a megastructure accommodating a variety of functions scaled up to the street along its perimeter and was scaled down, through terraces, to an interior pedestrian court.
Paul Rudolph's lasting effects in the field of architecture might be guessed from his statement: "Architecture, at least for me, is to a degree an art, and I feel fundamentally that it's the business of art to always question, to always turn everything upside down so that one sees it anew.
www.bookrags.com /biography/paul-marvin-rudolph   (1409 words)

  
 Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses & The Cannon Chapel
Rudolph (1918-1997) was a modernist, best known for his major public and academic projects.
Rudolph's early residential work in Florida, featured in "The Florida Houses" exhibit, provided the genesis for the renowned architect's multi-layered design methodology and played a significant role in mid-Twentieth Century American design.
Rudolph was born in Elkton, Ky., in 1918, and he died of asbestos cancer in 1997.
www.antiquesandthearts.com /GH-2004-08-24-13-24-16p1.htm   (838 words)

  
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Paul Rudolph’s buildings have been called examples of brutalism, but this term belies one of his work’s fundamental aspects: its boisterousness.
Rudolph himself maintained the superiority of a visual approach to solving a problem, commenting to his interviewer, “I don’t apologize for this.
Nevertheless Rudolph’s buildings of the 1980s are more reserved than almost all of his earlier work and provide an appropriate dénouement to his rejection of “the Miesian solution,” camp or otherwise, to architectural problems.
www.sapheneia.com /rudolph.html   (3283 words)

  
 Paul Marvin Rudolph - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Rudolph, Paul Marvin 1918-97, American modernist architect, b.
Elkton, Ky. Rudolph taught at several universities and served as chair of the Yale Univ. architecture department from 1958-65.
Portrait of an architect: to the world, Paul Rudolph was a genius of modern architecture; to his friends in Sarasota and beyond, he was affectionate, loyal and vividly alive.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-RudolphP.html   (381 words)

  
 FORUM: "Storey With An Unhappy Ending" - Paul Rudolph's Graphic Arts Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Rudolph saw it as a megastructure but also as a place where several thousand families could live, work, play and be educated in a modern village atmosphere in the burly burly of Manhattan.
Rudolph explains that one of the reasons Habitat was so expensive was not because it was experimental but because it was too heavy.
Rudolph uses it in such a way that no one would guess he was living inside a steel cocoon.
www.gibson-design.com /forum-storey-rudolph.html   (2361 words)

  
 Paul Rudolph - Biography - AOL Music
Canadian-born guitarist Paul Rudolph has led a multifaceted career in psychedelic music, heavy metal, proto-punk, and progressive rock.
Rudolph cut an incredible swathe across their first two albums and innumerable concerts with his free-flowing blues-based playing, he and Sanderson generating a sound of laser-like precision and intensity at their best moments, while Sanderson and Twink held the beat as well.
Rudolph has participated in various reincarnations of the Pink Fairies and the Deviants, and subgroupings from their respective orbits, in the decades since.
music.aol.com /artist/paul-rudolph/120918/biography   (293 words)

  
 Paul Rudolph :The Architect - About UMass Dartmouth - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Paul Rudolph was the architect responsible for UMass Dartmouth’s original master plan and the design of most of the buildings on campus.
Rudolph left Yale in 1965 to open his own firm, continuing to design inventive and original buildings for both the public and private sectors.
Rudolph’s work exhibits a highly personal and uncompromising style, and his buildings are designed to excite and challenge its occupants.
www.umassd.edu /about/rudolph/architect.cfm   (529 words)

  
 glbtq >> arts >> Rudolph, Paul
Modernist architect Paul Rudolph was one of the most esteemed American architects of the 1960s, when he was the influential chair of the School of Architecture at Yale University.
Rudolph was born on October 23, 1918 in Elkton, Kentucky.
Rudolph's reputation, in decline for some time, is beginning to rise again.
www.glbtq.com /arts/rudolph_p.html   (711 words)

  
 Metropolis Insites: Ashes to Ashes
In the early Seventies, shortly after the opening of Rudolph's Lindemann Mental Health Center in downtown Boston, a patient responded to the swirling Corbusian forms in the building's chapel by igniting himself beneath a light-cannon on the crude slab altar.
In the decades that stretched from the fire to his death from lung cancer last August, Rudolph was revered by an influential group of colleagues, fans, and former students, but he was considered almost untouchable by others.
The materials list for the project reads, in part: "ventilation duct, electronics, and portion of the architect Paul Rudolph's cremated remains." Bain is quiet about his intentions; he says only that he wanted to "dust the interior with a symbolic residue of the architect." Now we can all breathe deep: Paul Rudolph's demons are sleeping.
www.metropolismag.com /html/content_0498/ap98yale.htm   (499 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Paul Marvin Rudolph (Architecture, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Paul Marvin Rudolph 1918–97, American modernist architect, b.
Elkton, Ky. Rudolph taught at a number of universities and served as chair of the architecture department at Yale Univ. from 1958–65.
He was one of the most influential American architects of the mid-20th cent., creating buildings often characterized by boldly contrasting masses and innovative surfaces.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/RudolphP.html   (264 words)

  
 Archinect : Books : Paul Rudolph: The Late Work
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.
"Paul Rudolph: The Late Work is designed as a companion volume to The Florida Houses, and is the second in a planned three-volume set of the complete works of this legendary architect.
www.archinect.com /books/enlarge.php?id=4668_0_25_0   (236 words)

  
 The Art Institute of Chicago: Chicago Architects Oral History Project: Paul Marvin Rudolph
Paul Marvin Rudolph was born in 1918 in Elkton, Kentucky.
Rudolph was chairman of the Yale School of Architecture from 1958 until 1964, after which he returned to private practice.
Rudolph speaks about working in the Far East in the 1990s: commissions in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Jakarta; how the masters handled space; influences; the Christian Science building, Urbana, Illinois; the effect of color; obtaining clients; commissions; regionalism.
www.artic.edu /aic/libraries/caohp/rudolph.html   (461 words)

  
 SAVE Riverview
One of his current projects is restoration of Paul Rudolph's School of Art and Architecture Building at Yale University.
The 1958 Paul Rudolph structure, which architects and local developers petitioned to save this year, will be demolished once the new school is finished.
Paul Rudolph's Riverview High School is important to Sarasota's history and a significant part of the architectural legacy of American buildings, as well as an international landmark of 20th century architecture.
saveriverview.blogspot.com   (2205 words)

  
 Rudolph & Hammond | Personal Injury Attorneys | Scottsdale, Arizona
Paul Rudolph is the managing partner of the firm.
Attorney Rudolph is a former Special Agent with the D.E.A and a graduate with honors from law school.
Paul was born in Wisconsin and he and his wife have two children.
www.rudolphhammond.com /paul_rudolph/index.html   (148 words)

  
 University Art Gallery
Paul Rudolph (1918-97) was the master architect for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus, which was planned and begun in the mid 1960's.
Shortly before designing the Dartmouth campus, Rudolph - who was dean of the Architecture School at Yale - had become internationally famous for his design of the Yale Art and Architecture Building.
Paul Rudolph arrived in Sarasota in 1941 and immediately began to develop his own distinctive regionally based modernism.
www.umassd.edu /cvpa/universityartgallery/paulrudolph.html   (309 words)

  
 "Paul E. Rudolph, President Of EDS’ Electronic Business Unit, Joins CIBER As Chief Operating Officer" (Press Release) ...
Rudolph, with EDS since 1979 and President of its Electronic Business organization, led this unit to become the fastest growing sector in the company, nearly doubling its size since taking the helm in 1996.
Rudolph on board is a major coup for CIBER," stated Mac Slingerlend, CEO of the $800 million revenue systems integration and consulting firm.
Rudolph, 41, will lead all operations, with the goal of accelerating the delivery of E-Business solutions into its custom and package software, system implementation and system integration, and management and strategic consulting services.
www.ciber.com /news/article.cfm?id=19990602   (534 words)

  
 Fred A. Bernstein: Paul Rudolph's Tracey Towers
In Rudolph’s buildings the windows are flat, and the curves are entirely masonry, giving the buildings their almost primeval mien.
A foyer leading from the parking garage to the towers is a kind of colonnade, with a barrel vaulted ceiling and half a dozen semi-circular seating bays (their geometry reinforced by radial patterns in the terrazzo).
According to Tim Rohan, a Rudolph biographer at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Rudolph was friendly with Ed Logue (president of the New York State Urban Development Corporation from 1968 to 1975 and president of the South Bronx Development Organization from 1978 to 1985).
www.fredbernstein.com /articles/display.asp?id=129   (584 words)

  
 Paul Rudolph aka Black George
Paul Rudolph, born and bred in Vancouver, did little to dispel this stereotype, except a withered right arm (the result of childhood polio) meant that he was unable to wield any axes as a profession (...).
Rudolph (who had relocated to Deya, Majorca) would then be re-united with Mick Farren, any grievences over sacking him from his own band seemingly forgiven, recording the Screwed Up EP with Alan Powell, Larry Wallis and Andy Colqhoun.
Rudolph wasn't a songwriter as such, and the lyrics and vocals on his stuff were really token gestures.
mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /_drw01/blackie.html   (1430 words)

  
 FSC Press Release
LAKELAND, Fla. (August 26, 2002) — “Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses Exhibition” will be on display at Florida Southern College from Sept. 1 through Oct. 8 in the William M. Hollis Seminar Room, Thad Buckner Building on campus.
Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) was a modernist architect best known for his major public and academic projects.
The exhibit includes scale models of a few houses, reproductions of drawings from the Paul Rudolph Archives, and period photography by Ezra Stoller.
www.flsouthern.edu /pubrel/0203news/PaulRudolph082602.htm   (337 words)

  
 Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses Books
Paul Rudolph, one of the 20th century's most iconoclastic architects, is best know--and most maligned--for his large "brutalist" buildings, like the Yale Art and Architecture Building.
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.
It is an impressive collection, and illustrates the lighter side of Rudolph before he became caught up in the monumental forms that dominated the latter part of his career.
www.tvcrazy.net /1568982666/Paul_Rudolph_The_Florida_Houses.html   (530 words)

  
 xmas
Rudolph deftly reharmonizes the pieces here and establishes structures that support extended blowing.
Paul has worked with many of the leaders in the jazz world including: Phil Woods, Tal Farlow, Al Cohn, Mose Allison, Johnny Hartman, Bud Shank, Zoot Sims, Barney Kessel, and Herb Ellis.
Paul is a member of the Ralph Sharon Trio that tours with vocal legend Tony Bennett.
www.steverudolph.com /xmas.htm   (581 words)

  
 Paul Rudolph at ArBITAT Architects
Paul Rudolph lived in a multileveled townhouse in New York overlooking the East River, in a space with transparent bridges and elevators- a truly dizzying, complex space that seemed to change at every turn.
Despite the fact that they have a classic (albeit inflexible) Paul Rudolph Building, they are attempting to replace in favor with something more contextural- something with a few more cornices, a few more pediments, a lot less originality.
Paul Rudolph's masterpiece, an amazing spatial (and special) experience, one that needs to be seen to be believed, although these Ezra Stoller photos come pretty damn close...
architects.arbitat.com /rudolph   (406 words)

  
 Paul Rudolph ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Rudolph Grossman, Dancers #2, 19th - 20th century
The Mayor took offense to the subject matter of the exhibit, particularly one piece of art that depicts an African interpretation of the Virgin Mary on a canvas containing textural elements of elephant feces.
Neutra had been brought to Los Angeles to assist fellow Austrian architect Rudolph Schindler, who was overseeing the construction of Fra...
www.wwar.com /masters/r/rudolph-paul.html   (810 words)

  
 The Art and Architecture of Paul Rudolph:0471997781:Monk, Anthony:eCampus.com
This biography has been written as a memorial tribute to Paul Rudolph by graduates whom he taught at the Yale School of Architecture.
This is the first comprehensive study of Paul Rudolph’s work and features 23 major projects, presented through drawings, photographs and theory.
With their vivid descriptions of Paul Rudolph’s techniques, ideas, talent, management and personality, they explain why they believe he was one of America’s great modern architects.
www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0471997781&referrer=yah04   (236 words)

  
 Paul Meier Dialect Services - dialect coach - British dialects - American dialects - German accent
Paul may be available to personally coach your film or play.
Speaking of looping (also known as ADR), Paul is just the man to work with your cast at this stage.
Paul Meier Dialect Services will meet all your dialect needs.
www.paulmeier.com /inpersoncoaching.html   (111 words)

  
 Paul Rudolph
Curated by Christopher Domin and Joe King of the University of Arizona School of Architecture, this exhibition will provide a critical introduction to a body of work that is relatively unknown to many architects today.
Early residential work in Florida proved to be a productive testing period for Rudolph’s theoretical and material contributions to postwar domestic architecture.
The Florida houses were widely published at their time of conception and played a significant role in articulating an American style in architecture.
jcsm.auburn.edu /whatsHappen/PaulRudolph.html   (80 words)

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