Paul Rudolph, the Florida Houses

Christopher Domin, Joseph King

240 pages, parution le 16/08/2009

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Résumé

Paul Rudolph, one of the 20th century's most iconoclastic architects, is best known-and most maligned-for his large "brutalist" buildings, like the Yale 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. Like the locally inspired desert houses of another modern master, Albert Frey, Rudolph's Florida houses represent a distillation and reinterpretation of traditional architectural ideas developed to a high pitch of stylistic refinement. Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses reveals all of Rudolph's early residential work. 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.

L'auteur - Christopher Domin

Christopher Domin is an architect and educator living in Tucson, Arizona. He is a professor at the University of Arizona where he teaches design studios along with history and theory seminars that focus on mid-century and contemporary architecture.

L'auteur - Joseph King

Joseph King is an architect practicing in Bradenton, Florida. He is a specialist in landscape, development, and design as related to regional issues of sustainability.

Sommaire

Introduction
Twitchell and Rudolph
Independent Practice
Public Buildings in Florida

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Princeton Architectural Press
Auteur(s)	Christopher Domin, Joseph King
Parution	16/08/2009
Nb. de pages	240
Format	25,5 x 20,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	960g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781568985510
ISBN13	978-1-56898-551-0