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Paul Rudolph's Sarasota Legacy
Born in 1918, Paul Rudolph studied with Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius at Harvard Graduate School of Design and was later Dean of the School of Architecture at Yale University. Buildings of
his design can be found in cities around the world, including Sarasota, Boston, Fort Worth, Singapore, Hong Kong and Jakarta. Rudolph continued to design buildings into the 1990s, and died in 1997 at the age of 79.


Paul Rudolph, Sarasota High School Addition, 1000 School Street, Sarasota, FL, 1960

Sarasota High School Addition, 1960
The addition to the original Collegiate Gothic style Sarasota High School (1927) was commissioned as part of a progressive public school construction campaign directed by Philip Hiss, then chair of the Board of Public Instruction. Paul Rudolph's design for the expansion reflects a transition from the highly transparent structures of his mid-century practice to the more sculptural and textural forms of his later Brutalist Style work, exemplified by the Yale School of Art and Architecture Building (1963) where
he served as Dean of the School of Architecture.
Morris Hylton
Assistant Professor of Interior Design; Director, Historic Preservation Program
College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida

In 2012, AIA Florida nominated the Sarasota High School Addition as one of the Top 100 Buildings in Florida.

Links
Paul Rudolph Foundation Blog

Sarasota High School Addition, 2012


Walker Guest House, Sanibel, 1953
Illustration by John Pirman


Paul Rudolph Legacy Committee
Carl Abbott, FAIA
 Dr. Michael Kalman
Janet Minker
Joyce Owens, AIA, RIBA
Cindy Peterson
Dan Snyder, chair
 
 
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