Callahan Residence, Birmingham, AL, 1965 Project Not Built

Rudolph called this house "a living room on a platform."
"Paul Rudolph's Elaborated Spaces: Six New Projects." Architectural Record 139 (June 1966): 143

"A final southern residential project (unbuilt) for the Callahans of Birmingham, Alabama became an even freer interpretation of Corb [Le Corbusier] combined with Rudolph's Florida trailer-module ideas. Again sitting on a podium, it juts out from a steeply sloping site. The interior spaces were expressed separately rather than as one mass. Arranged at the edges for sun and view control, its perimeter was similar to those of the Milam and earlier Bostwick residence."
Howey, John. The Sarasota School of Architecture: 1941-1966. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997.

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On New York City, 1959
“We need sequences of space which arouse one’s curiosity, give a sense of anticipation, which beckon and impel us to rush forward and find that releasing space which dominates, which climaxes and acts as a magnet and gives direction. This is well illustrated by the Fifth Avenue entrance to Rockefeller Plaza, where one strides forward in anticipation of seeing the sunken court and its activities. Most important of all we need those outer spaces which encourage social contact, again well illustrated by Rockefeller Plaza, the best outdoor living room in America.” Rudolph, Paul Marvin, 1918-1997. "The Changing Face of New York." American Institute of Architects. Journal 131 (April 1959): 39.

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Callahan Residence, Birmingham, AL, 1965 Project Not Built

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