Paul Rudolph's Influence On Early American Architecture

Paul Rudolph was born on October 23, 1918. “The year of Rudolph’s birth, 1918, was a key date in world history” At the end of World War I, the old established conventions of balance of power, Renaissance culture, and surplus-value economy broke down. He was not only a famous American architect, but also the Chair of Yale University's Department of Architecture for six years. Paul Rudolph was known for his complex floor plans and the new approach of concrete. “The work of Paul Rudolph has had a profound effect on the architecture of the second half of the twentieth century, but its potential for further influence has only begun to be explored.” Paul Rudolph brought many influences in his work in Florida. The time is remarkable for his approach to creative and experimental methods of construction, to expanding the structural possibilities of materials to their limits while reviving both static and aesthetic possibilities of materials; for his effort to explore and thrive the spatial copiousness, complexity, and interrelationship of the interiors and exteriors of his architectures, their location, their

The roof was concave down. The roof was built using a built-up spray-on process that Paul Rudolph had seen used to cocoon during his military time in the US Navy. What’s more, Rudolph used wooden jalousie windows, which enabled the characteristic breezes to and from the Sarasota Bay to flow through the house. A student project studied at Harvard under Walter Gropius, later restudied and developed for a client. “The principles at that time were: 1 clarity of construction, 2 simple overall volumes penetrating vertically and horizontally, 3 clear geometry floating above the landscape, 4 everything reduced to simple rectangulars and, of course, 5 a flat roof.” The Bauhaus principles via Harvard were adapted to Florida’s particular