Paul Rudolph, A.I.A.

Born: October 23, 1918 in Elkton, Kentucky
Died: August 08, 1997 in New York City

Education

  • Alabama Polytechnic Institute - 1935-1940

  • Bachelor of Architecture - Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1940

  • Harvard Graduate School of Design - 1940-1943

  • Architectural Fellow - Harvard University, 1941-1942

  • Master of Architecture - Harvard University, 1947

  • Doctor of Arts (Honorary) - Colgate University, 1966

  • Doctor of Fine Arts (Honorary) - Southeastern Massachusetts University, 1970

  • Doctor of Fine Arts (Honorary) - Florida State University, 1970

  • Doctor of Humanities (Honorary) - Auburn University, 1972

  • Doctor of Humanities (Honorary) - Emory University, 1981

Experience

  • Draftsman - Van Keuren, Davis and Company - Birmingham, Alabama, 1940-1941

  • Ralph Twitchell - Sarasota, Florida, 1941-1947

  • Officer-in-Charge, Ship Construction - U.S. Naval Reserve, Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1943-1946

  • Twitchell & Rudolph - Sarasota, Florida, 1947-1951

  • Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship in Architecture - Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1948-1949. Countries visited include England, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Greece.

  • Paul Rudolph, Architect - Sarasota, Florida, 1952-1960

  • Visiting Critic - Cornell, Tulane, Harvard, Princeton, University of California, University of Pennsylvania - 1951-1956

  • Visiting Lecturer - Yale, Cornell, Toronto, Tulane, Harvard, Princeton, Smith College, Clemson College, Georgia Institute of Technology, Institute of Design of Illinois Institute of Technology, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, University of Florida, University of Pennsylvania, University of California - 1951-1958

  • Chairman, Department of Architecture - Yale University, 1958-1965

  • Paul Rudolph, Architect - Offices in New Haven, Connecticut; Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York, New York, 1962

  • Member - Navy Review & Advisory Panel, Washington D.C., 1965

  • Paul Rudolph, Architect - 26 West 58th Street, New York, New York 10019, 1966-1969

  • Paul Rudolph, Architect - 54 West 57th Street, New York, New York 10019, 1969-1990

  • Invited Participant - International Conference of Architects, Tehran, Iran, 1970

  • Paul Rudolph, Architect - 33 Commercial Wharf South, Boston, Massachusetts 02110, 1972

  • Juror - Roosevelt Island Housing competition, sponsored by the New York State Urban Development Corporation, New York, New York, 1974-1975

  • Participant - Various architecture conferences - 1985

  • Paul Rudolph, Architect - 246 East 58th Street, New York, New York 10022, 1990-1991

  • Paul Rudolph, Architect - 23 Beekman Place, New York, New York, 1991-1997

Architectural Registration

  • New York, Florida, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Alabama, District of Columbia, New Jersey, Rhode Island, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Georgia

Honors and Awards

  • First Prize - Rorimer Competition, American Institute of Decorators, 1940

  • Selected to design a model house by the Revere Copper and Brass Company, 1948

  • Award of Merit for Best House of the Year - American Institute of Architects, 1949

  • Designs selected for inclusion in the annual habitations edition of L’Architecture d’aujourdhui as representative of the best new residential architecture in the USA, 1950-1951

  • Included among 21 architects whose work was featured in a special edition of young architects in the Magazine of Building, 1951

  • Two designs selected for inclusion among 42 examples of significant post-war architecture featured in the book Built in the USA, published by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY, 1953

  • Outstanding Young Architects Award - Sao Paulo (Brazil) International Competition, 1954

  • Residence selected by the Architectural Record as one of the fifty most significant buildings completed since 1900, 1956

  • Arnold Brunner Prize in Architecture - American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1958

  • Included in the book Masters of Modern Architecture, 1958

  • Award of Merit, Homes for Better Living Awards - American Institute of Architects in cooperation with House & Home and McCall’s, 1959

  • Invited to the World Design Conference in Tokyo, 1960

  • Member of the Citizens Advisory Committee for Federal Participation in the New York World’s Fair, 1961

  • Architectural Award for Commercial Building Category (Blue Cross Blue Shield Building) - Boston Arts Festival, 1961

  • Award of Merit for Sarasota High School - American Institute of Architects Honor Awards Program, 1962

  • Honorable Mention - Gold Medal Committee, Architectural League of New York, 1962

  • Residence selected as one of the Record Houses of 1962 by the Architectural Record, 1962

  • Guest speaker at the National Home Fashions League meeting at the Grand Ballroom of the Plaza Hotel in NYC, on May 24, 1963

  • Award of Excellence for House Design (Milam Residence) - Architectural Record, 1963

  • First Honor Award for Art and Architecture Building - American Institute of Architects, 1964

  • Award of Merit for Temple Street Parking Garage - American Institute of Architects, 1964

  • Annual Award for Endo Laboratories - Concrete Industry Board of New York, 1964

  • Citation for Outstanding Collaboration between Architecture and the Allied Arts - Gold Medal Committee, The Architectural League of New York, 1965

  • Honor Award for Design Excellence (Crawford Manor) - United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1966

  • Medal of Honor - New York Chapter, American Institute of Architects, 1969

  • Fellow - American Institute of Architects, 1970

  • Honor Award (Arts & Humanities Building at Southeastern Massachusetts University) - New England Regional Council, American Institute of Architects, 1970

  • Invited by the University of Southern California to present the lecture ‘Modules and Megastructures’ at the reception for the groundbreaking of the new School of Architecture and Fine Arts on September 21, 1971

  • Invited by the government of Iran to participate in an International Conference of Architects in Tehran, Iran

  • Award of Merit for Tracey Towers - Concrete Industry Board of New York, 1973

  • Honor Award for Services to Architecture - La Federacion Panamericana de Asociaciones de Arquitectos, 1975

  • Honorary Member - El Instituto de Arquitectos de Puerto Rico, 1975

  • Invited by Colgate University to receive an honorary doctorate and gave the speech, “Urban Design,” 1975

  • Fellow - American Society of Interior Designers, 1976

  • Honorary Professor - La Universidad Nacional “Federico Villarreal”, Lima, Peru, 1977

  • Elsie de Wolfe Award - American Society of Interior Designers, 1977

  • Visiting Critic at the University of Houston College of Architecture, 1981

  • Walter Gropius lecturer at Harvard University, 1982

  • Invited by the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies to participate in a symposium for architects held at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1982

  • Plym distinguished professorship in architecture - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983-1984

  • Emmy Award for ‘Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph’, 1984

  • Invited under the auspices of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture to participate in a regional seminar on ‘Architecture and the Role of Architects in Southern Asia’, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1985

  • Architectural drawings acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York as part of the ‘Architectural Drawings Collection’, 1985

  • Invited by the Associazion a Degli Industrali della Provincia di Firenze to participate in the international conference ‘Firenze Nuova Primavera’ in Florence, Italy, 1986

  • Creative Arts Award - Brandeis University, 1986

  • Invited by the Singapore Institute of Planners to deliver the keynote address for the International Convention on Urban Planning, Housing and Design in Singapore, 1986

  • Guest Lecturer in a symposium panel ‘New York: Is There a Place For Architecture?’ at Montana State University School of Architecture, 1987

  • Guest Lecturer at ‘Architecture in Context - Paul Rudolph’ at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1987

  • Invited by Grupo Panorama to participate in the International Congress ‘Cities of the Future 1987’ in Sao Paolo, Brazel, 1987

  • Academician of the International Academy of Architecture in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1987

  • Guest Lecturer at ‘Dreams and Details’ - The Steelcase Design Partnership, 1989

  • Guest Lecturer at ‘Paul Rudolph: Drawings towards Architecture’ - Roger Williams College, 1992

  • Guest Lecturer at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1993

  • Guest Lecturer at the National Institute for Architectural Education (NIAE), 1993

Memberships

  • American Institute of Architects, 1957-1970

  • Advisory Board, RCA Advanced Designing and Styling Center, 1960

  • Citizens Advisory Committee for Federal Participation in the New York World’s Fair, 1961

  • Architectural League of New York

  • Museum of Modern Art

  • American Society of Interior Designers

  • National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1970-1997

Exhibitions

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