"Reassessing Rudolph" by Timothy M. Rohan

Reassessing Rudolph Timothy M. Rohan, Kazi K. Ashraf, Lizabeth Cohen, Brian Goldstein, Pat Kirkham, Tom Tredway, Sylvia Lavin, Réjean Legault, Louis Martin, Eric Mumford, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Emmanuel J. Petit

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Format:: Paperback
Publication date:: 06 Feb 2018
ISBN:: 9780300225860
Imprint:: The Yale School of Architecture
Dimensions:: 186 pages: 254 x 165mm
Illustrations:: 25 color + 60 b-w illus.

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American architect Paul Rudolph (1918–1997) was internationally known in the 1950s and early 1960s for his powerful, large-scale concrete buildings. Hugely influential during his lifetime, Rudolph was one of the most significant American architects of his generation. To a remarkable extent, his reputation rose and fell with the fortunes of postwar modernism in America. This insightful book reconsiders Rudolph’s architecture and the discipline’s assessment of his projects. It includes nearly a dozen essays by well-known scholars in the fields of architectural and urban history, all of which shed new light on Rudolph’s theories and practices. Contributions explore the architect’s innovative use of materials, including plywood, Plexiglas, and exposed concrete; the places he lived and worked, from the Anglo-American axis to the Bengal delta; his affiliation with CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne); and currents within his philosophy of architecture.

Timothy M. Rohan is associate professor of architecture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.