This conversation will overview the research of Paul Rudolph's teaching methodology as Chair of the Architecture Department at Yale during 1958-1965, conducted by Fulbright visiting scholar Gabriel Hernández. During this directorship, Rudolph had the extraordinary opportunity to turn his teaching methods into a seminal yet polemical building - the Architecture and Art Building at Yale, creating one of the architectural teaching milestones of the 1960s American context.
Pairing Gabriel with Carl Abbott, considered one of the most relevant architects of the Sarasota School and a student at Yale during Rudolph's directorship, both will engage in a conversation that will assess the impacts of Rudolph's pedagogies, its connections to the spaces where architecture was taught and its implications in architectural practice.
About Carl:
Heralded as the last member of the famed Sarasota School of Architecture, Carl Abbott was born near Darien, Georgia in 1936 and moved to Ft. Meyers, Florida in 1951. After receiving his BArch cum laude from the University of Florida in Gainesville, he worked in Bert Brosmith’s Sarasota office, then studied at Yale under both Paul Rudolph and Louis Kahn, where he received his MArch in 1962.
Abbott is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions and has worked in Hawaii, in New York with I.M. Pei and in London with fellow Yale classmates Lord Richard Rogers and Lord Norman Foster. He has lectured extensively and taught studios at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. His architectural office has been based in Sarasota, Florida for over 50 years. His most recent commission is a residence on Casey Key completed in 2019.
About Gabriel:
Gabriel Hernández (Canary Islands, Spain) is an architect, researcher and educator. His work pivots on graphic tools and creative processes, focusing on the global scale of the connections between architecture, art, design and landscape. He is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar and a UPM Doctoral Fellow at Yale School of Architecture.
Additional research stays include ENSA Paris La Villette, CUJAE in Havana, and CEPT Ahmedabad in India. Trained as an architect at ETSAM/UPM and as an editorial designer by the European Institute of Design Madrid, Gabriel has served as an Adjunct Professor of Architectural Analysis and Dean’s Delegate at Universidad Politécnica e Madrid (UPM) and an Adjunct Professor of Design History at IE University. Additionally, he has been a lecturer and guest critic at the Architectural Association (AA), Manchester University and ESD Madrid.