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Check out this review and slideshow on the rededication of the Art and Architecture Building at Yale University on the weekend of November 6-9, 2008.

http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6201

From the Yale Daily News.

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/26381

From the Smogr blog

This is a review of the rededication of the Art & Architecture Building at Yale University as Paul Rudolph Hall on the weekend of November 6-9, 2008. It is concise, informative and illustrated.

http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2008/11/10/rudolph-redux/

In "Modern Antiquity: The Paul Rudolph Housing Crisis" David Hay writing in New York Magazine reviews the poor history and perhaps worse future of a number of Paul Rudolph's buildings.

http://nymag.com/arts/architecture/features/52410/

From the Paul Rudolph Foundation web site.

The Paul Rudolph Foundation found itself the subject of a short and nasty article published in a local NYC weekly this past week. We were told, when we were orginally approached for the article, that it would be about the recent rededication of Rudolph Hall. As it turned out, the author had something else up his sleeve - including misquotes and misinformation.

In response, the Paul Rudolph Foundation released the following letter today to the editors:

December 2, 2008

Check out these recent online articles.

By Joseph Giovanni

http://www.architectmagazine.com/industry-news.asp?articleID=809083&sect...

By Witold Rybczynski

http://www.slate.com/id/2205430/

By Phyllis Tuchman

"Writings on Architecture" edited by Robert A.M. Stern and published by Yale University Press has just been released ($20.00). I have not seen a copy yet but its described as covering the architectural and educational writings of Paul Rudolph. It also includes many photographs published for the first time.

The Chorley Elementary School in Middletown, NY by Paul Rudolph is under the threat of demolition by the voters there. See article below.

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081217/COMM/812...

Paul Goldberger writing in the New Yorker has cited the restoration of the Paul Rudolph designed Art & Architecture Building at Yale University by Charles Gwathmey as one of the best architectural efforts of the year.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/tny/2008/12/paul-goldberger-archit...

John Dankosky of Connecticut Public Radio and Timothy Rohan, Paul Rudolph scholar, discuss the architect's work in New Haven and elsewhere in a podcast that aired January 5, 2009. See link below to download the interview.

http://www.cpbn.org/program/%5Bfield_episode_cpbi_program%5D/episode/our...

Check out this excellent illustrated review of the work of Paul Rudolph in Buffalo, NY, particularly his Waterfront Development Project, 1970-1974.

http://archives.buffalorising.com/story/paul_rudolph_part_2_buffalos_o