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Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses
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by Joseph King, Christopher Domin, and Ezra Stoller
Sales Rank: 109610
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List Price: $29.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 248 pages
Published by: Princeton Architectural PressEdition: 1st Edition December 1, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1568985517
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1568985510
Book Dimensions:
9.9 x 7.8 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1.9 pounds
Product Description
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.
About The Author
Joseph King is an architect practicing in Bradenton, Florida.
Christopher Domin is an architect living in Tucson and a professor at the University of Arizona.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses (Hardcover)
I found myself becoming nostalgic looking through the pages of this book. Having grown up in Florida, I was stunned to see that the house I lived in had been a knock-off of one of Rudolph's houses. His early Florida houses were widely emulated for their clean lines and passive solar designs. 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. You might call him the John Lautner of Florida, creating a lifestyle as much as an architecture. You could see Travis McGee laying back in one of these houses, drinking a beer as he waits for the elusive flash of green. Rudolph really captured the spirit of Florida in the 40's and 50's. Simple, well-thought out designs that are as relavent today as they were then.
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