With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Paul Rudolph
Architecture/Design, Education/Curation
1918 – 1997
Modernist architect and early American adherent to the stark concrete structural massing known as Brutalism, with an office and commissions in Connecticut.
- Biography/Description of Work
Rudolph studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Design under Walter Gropius, and then practiced in Sarasota FL in the late 1940s and 1950s. Here he designed the Healy Guest House which received an AIA award in 1949. He served as chairman of the Yale Department of Architecture from 1958 to 1965. His commissions in Connecticut include the Greeley Memorial Laboratory at Yale (1957), Temple Street Parking Garage (1959-1963), Yale married student housing (1960), the Yale Art and Architecture building (1963), and a residential design in Westport, the 1972 Micheels House, since demolished. With offices in New Haven, Cambridge and New York City, he had commissions throughout the East Coast.
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