Paul Rudolph
Paul Marvin Rudolph (October 23, 1918 in Elkton, Kentucky – August 8, 1997
The Architect as Urbanist
STOREY WITH AN UNHAPPY ENDING
(Paul Rudolph's Graphic Arts Center, New York, New York)
13 December, 1968 - Reprinted from The Daily Telegraph Magazine, London
"Who wants to live 52 weeks a year in a caravan 600 feet in the air?"
Architect Paul Rudolph designed this unique block, made up of assembly-built prefabricated units, for an American trade union. But other unions, when they saw the plans, yelled, "Foul!" and vetoed the idea. Rudolph, dismayed, talks to IAN BALL about the future of this and other ideas - such as replacing an expressway with a building two miles long.
