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Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses

February 3 - March 24, 2006

2006

University Art Gallery (UMass Dartmouth Galleries)

Christopher Domin

Joseph King

Paul Rudolph (1918-97) was the master architect for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus, which was planned and begun in the mid 1960's. Shortly before designing the Dartmouth campus, Rudolph - who was dean of the Architecture School at Yale - had become internationally famous for his design of the Yale Art and Architecture Building. The exhibition focuses on the important earlier Florida work that Paul Rudolph did over a twenty years period. Paul Rudolph arrived in Sarasota in 1941 and immediately began to develop his own distinctive regionally based modernism. First in collaboration with the architect Ralph Twitchell, and later on his own. In the curators' words: "Rudolph successfully, sometimes controversially, transformed the southern Florida landscape. With their distinctive natural landscape, local architectural precedents, and innovative construction techniques - many based on simple off-the-shelf materials - these houses brought modern architectural form into this gracious subtropical world" "The early residential work...provided the necessary testing ground for Rudolph's developing multi-layered design methodology. These houses were widely published at the time of their conception and played a significant role in the culture of American design at mid-century." The exhibition consists of architectural models, period photographs by Ezra Stoller, and large scale panels with text and high quality reproductions of presentation and analysis drawings from the Paul Rudolph Archives at the Library of Congress. Topics explored include the interrelationship between the production of these houses and the surrounding landscape, urbanism, regionalism, ethnographic analysis, along with links to concurrent architectural discourse. The exhibition complements the curators' book, "Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses," published in 2002 by Princeton Architectural Press. Christopher Domin is an architect and educator currently living in Tucson Arizona, where he teaches at the University of Arizona. Joseph King is a practicing architect on the west coast of Florida.

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Ezra Stoller

American

May 16, 1915 - October 29, 2004

Ezra Stoller was born in Chicago in 1915, grew up in New York and graduated from New York University in 1938 with a BFA in industrial design. As a student, he began photographing buildings, models and sculpture. In 1940-1941, Stoller worked with the photographer Paul Strand in the Office of Emergency Management; he was drafted in 1942 and worked as a photographer at the Army Signal Corps Photo Center. He died in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 2004. During his long career as an architectural photographer, Stoller worked closely with many of the period's leading architects, including: Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Rudolph, Marcel Breuer, I.M. Pei, Gordon Bunshaft, Eero Saarinen, Richard Meier and Mies van der Rohe, among others. Many modern buildings are known and remembered by the images Stoller created. He was uniquely able to visualize the formal and spatial aspirations of modernist architecture. The first time the American Institute of Architects awarded a medal for architectural photography, in 1960, it was given to Ezra Stoller. Ezra Stoller's photographs are published in countless books and magazines. The monograph Modern Architecture: Photographs by Ezra Stoller was published by Harry N. Abrams in 1990 and reissued in 1997. Beginning in 1999, Princeton Architectural Press issued the Building Blocks series, 10 books on Stoller's work. Contact Esto to arrange licensing for reproduction. Ezra Stoller received an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in 1998. He died in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 2004. Stoller's work is in the collections of numerous museums, including the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the High Art Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses

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