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Blogger admires Rudolph's work at MoMA's "Home Delivery" Exhibit

The "Art Ongoing" blog had this to say about the Paul Rudolph entry currently on exhibit the "Home Delivery" show at MoMA.

"It is always interesting how quality shows, how the superior entry will make its presence known. Of all of the beautifully made models on display here, none of them seem so human and so logical and so right as the model of a design by Paul Rudolph. I can imagine an entire exhibition being built around this work…his work in fact. I hope the time will soon be right for that to happen."

For the full review see below.

http://artongoing.blogspot.com/2008/09/home-deliovery-fabricating-modern...

Yale's Art & Architecture Building to be Rededicated as Paul Rudolph Hall

As noted in previous blogs, Yale University has planned a major event to rededicate Paul Rudolph's A & A in his honor. The festivities begin on Friday, November 7, 2008.
Click on the url below for details.

http://www.architecture.yale.edu/drupal/index.php?q=lectures/Fall2008

Tim Rohan will be giving the keynote address on Friday Evening, November 7.

Note the panel discussions scheduled for Saturday, Novemeber 8. Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and other important names in contemporary architecture will be discussing the work of Paul Rudolph.

An exhibit of Rudolph's work in New Haven is also part of the event.

This will be a historic gathering in the appreciation of Paul Rudolph.

MoMA exhibition catalog features project by Paul Rudolph.

"Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling" is now available. This large format, hardcover catalog of the exhibit at MoMA has been received here at the Claire T. Carney Library, UMass Dartmouth. Paul Rudolph's Oriental Masonic Gardens project in New Haven, CT is included in the book as well as the exhibition. The exhibit continues through October 20, 2008.

Addition to Yale's Art and Architecture Building Receives Harsh Review

Philip Langdon, writing in the Hartford Courant on September 14, 2008 presented a withering review of Charles Gwathmey's Jeffrey Loria Center for the History of Art. This building is attached to Paul Rudolph's Art and Architecture Building which is soon to be rededicated as Paul Rudolph Hall. See article below.

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/commentary/hc-plclangdon.artsep14,0,...

NYT Article Praises Renovation of the A & A

A recent article by Nicolai Ouroussoff in the New York Times highly praises the recent renovation of the Art And Architecture Building at Yale University, Paul Rudolph's signature work. The article is less impressed with the recently completed addition to the building. The article notes that the A & A will be rededicated as Paul Rudolph Hall in November. Thanks to Christopher Larkosh of the UMass Dartmouth Faculty for the alert.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/arts/design/28yale.html?em

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On the Revere Development, Sarasota, Florida
“Much worthy effort has been spent in finding better relationships between residential areas of all varieties and the town as a whole. However, it seems to us that the detached house, so popular in America and receiving so much attention as an individual unit, has for the most part simply been lined up on each side of the planners’ or speculative builders’ beautifully located cul-de-sac and that is the end of it. When the houses themselves are identical the results are particularly disastrous. Relationships between one house and its neighbor and devices to relieve the monotony of too much repetition and still keep within economic bounds are a real and urgent architectural problem and to us an exciting one… The one tool which is the architect’s special weapon, the handling of inner and outer space, has seldom been applied to this problem. Our proposals are fundamentally concerned here with the relationships between the house and its private outdoor living and work spaces. Finally and possibly most important it is a search for means to create a coordinated whole out of the repetition of basically similar elements without creating monotony.” Rudolph, Paul Marvin, 1918-1997. "Revere House Grouping." Architectural Forum 89 (December 1948): 28.

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