He recalled seeing Frank Lloyd Wright's Rosenbaum House in Florence, Alabama, in 1941, four years after it was built-the product of an inspired visionary individualist architect-as a pivotal event in his professional identity. Rudolph was a thoroughly American Modernist, exemplifying the movement whose roots were in the United States, as it championed individualism and a commitment to principles. Yale students vandalized the Art and Architecture Building he created for their campus in 1963 George Lucas chose the interior of the Burroughs Wellcome building (1969) in Durham, North Carolina, as the setting for a scene in the original Star Wars film. Always controversial, these interiors were both admired and attacked. His interiors combined an acute sense of space, scale, proportion, and taste. One of the world's last true Modernists, Rudolph had a career that spanned from the end of World War II to the 1990s, the formative period of the present-day interior design profession. In the tradition of Modernism, Paul Rudolph created imaginative and innovative buildings as well as their interiors and furnishings. It is now taught in schools the way Baroque or Arts and Crafts are presented-as a style of the past, long gone. With the passing of Paul Rudolph in 1997, Modern architecture became a historical style.
Leonardis for permission to share it on The Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture's website. Rocco Leonardis prepared the below text for the show: it focuses on the overall arc of Rudolph’s career, and his approach to design and creating interior spaces. A symposium was held in association with the exhibit, whose panelists included several former Rudolph staff members. Among the interiors featured were the Yale Art & Architecture Building (now rededicated as Rudolph Hall), and the Hirsch Residence (whose most famous later resident was the great fashion designer Halston).
Curated by Rocco Leonardis-an architect who had worked for Paul Rudolph-the show included drawings, photographs (reproduced at large-scale), and actual examples of furniture and lighting designed by the Rudolph. PAUL RUDOLPH: AN INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE was a 2005 exhibit at New York School of Interior Design, which was focused on Paul Rudolph's designs for interiors and furniture. Paul Rudolph: An Interior Perspective - 2005
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