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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 728.092
EAN: 9781568982663
Edition: 1
ISBN: 1568982666
Label: Princeton Architectural Press
Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 248
Publication Date: February 01, 2002
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Studio: Princeton Architectural Press
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Product Description:
A giant of twentieth century architecture, Paul Rudolph began his career designing beautiful and intimate beach houses on the west coast of Florida. This new book presents Rudolphs striking renderings and Ezra Stollers period photography, along with the authors insightful text, conveying the lightness, materiality, and transcendence of these intensely original houses.
Paul Rudolphs Florida houses, seen all together for the first time in this book, illustrate the ambition, discipline, and inventiveness that led the way to Rudolphs international prominence in the 1960s. With fifty years distance, we are now able to see the Florida Houses as a distinct body of work, some sixty projects created between 1941 and 1962, that came to represent the possibility of a locally inspired American modernism.
After disappearing from the scene for many years, these outstanding buildings are being discussed again, inspiring a new generation of architects searching for a meaningful architecture for the present. This is the first book to be published based on full access to the primary source material housed in the Paul Rudolph Archive at The Library of Congress.
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This book is an wonderful mix of photographs, drawings and text that give great insight into the work of Rudolph's understanding of the Florida's climate and the technology available in his day. It is a must for anyone seriously interested in modern architecture. What an amazing architect, what an amazing book!
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I have the hardcover version of this book, and I must say the graphic design, color, printing, editing, text, and even the dimensions of the all seem wonderfully appropriate. I know the format of this, The Florida Houses, is similar to that of The Late Work in the same series; however it is far more successful when showcasing the building logic and detail elegance in early work of Rudolph and Twitchell than the later "brutal" style Rudoplh explored.
A total package as well as totally ... Read More
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surpreendent phase of this great american architect.
the book explain small buildings with great significations.
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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 ... Read More
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As the Case Study program got under way in southern California, Rudolph launched his own from his office in Sarasota on FloridaÕs Gulf coast. For two decades (with time off for U.S. Navy service) he created (first with Ralph Twitchell and then independently) a succession of airy pavilions that mitigated the steamy heat and filtered the brilliant light. In Ezra StollerÕs crisp period photographs these houses seem almost dreamlikeÑtoo graceful and pure to endure storms and the crass consumerism of ... Read More
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