Welcome to the Archives of The Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture. The purpose of this online collection is to function as a tool for scholars, students, architects, preservationists, journalists and other interested parties. The archive consists of photographs, slides, articles and publications from Rudolph’s lifetime; physical drawings and models; personal photos and memorabilia; and contemporary photographs and articles.

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In his will, Paul Rudolph gave his Architectural Archives (including drawings, plans, renderings, blueprints, models and other materials prepared in connection with his professional practice of architecture) to the Library of Congress Trust Fund following his death in 1997. A Stipulation of Settlement, signed on June 6, 2001 between the Paul Rudolph Estate and the Library of Congress Trust Fund, resulted in the transfer of those items to the Library of Congress among the Architectural Archives, that the Library of Congress determined suitable for its collections. The intellectual property rights of items transferred to the Library of Congress are in the public domain. The usage of the Paul M. Rudolph Archive at the Library of Congress and any intellectual property rights are governed by the Library of Congress Rights and Permissions.

However, the Library of Congress has not received the entirety of the Paul Rudolph architectural works, and therefore ownership and intellectual property rights of any materials that were not selected by the Library of Congress may not be in the public domain and may belong to the Paul Rudolph Estate.

LOCATION
Address: 113 Ridgelawn Drive
City: Athens
State: Alabama
Zip Code: 35613
Nation: United States

STATUS
Type: Residence
Status: Built

TECHNICAL DATA
Date(s): 1957
Site Area: 39,100 ft² (3,632.5 m²)
Floor Area: 3,859 ft² (358.5 m²)
Height:
Floors (Above Ground): 1
Building Cost:

PROFESSIONAL TEAM
Client: Richard Guy Martin and Sarah Martin
Architect: Paul Rudolph
Associate Architect:
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SUPPLIERS
Contractor:
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Martin Residence

Paul Rudolph moves with his family to Athens, Alabama in 1936. The Rudolph's befriend the Martin family and two decades later Rudolph is commissioned to design a house for them.
The author Guy Martin grew up in the house.
The residence is currently owned by Gilbert Elliott Johnson

“In retrospect it was a simple house, even sober, but it was massively, irrevocably radical for its place and its day. The living room was an atrium, with a sunken floor and a clerestory, giving us a fifteen-foot ceiling and bringing the pines to the west and the oaks to the east into the house. You lived outside at the same time you lived in. Both the main roof and, obviously, the clerestory floated on their glass. There were even gallery windows (matching those in the clerestory) built into the walls between rooms, so that you could see through 18 Ridgelawn entirely, from wherever you were. [Note: the address is 113 Ridgelawn Drive] ”

— Martin, Guy. "Greek Active." Nest: A Magazine of Interiors 11 (Winter 2000-2001): 172-179.