Perspective section drawing of the Art and Architecture Building, Yale University, New Haven 1958

Just like Saarinen and Pei, Paul Rudolph was part of that second batch of modern architects that defined the image of the United States in the course of the second half of the 20th century. But contrary to the organic sensuality of the Finnish-born master and the geometric lucidness of the Chinese-American, he who would serve as Dean of the Yale School of Architecture gave full rein to an intricate poetic in concrete that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is presenting until March 2025 through a major exhibition, a retrospective which follows the evolution from his initial commissions executed in the Sarasota Modern style to his large brutalist buildings and his influential urban fantasies.

Perspective drawing of the Lower Manhattan Expressway / City Corridor project (unbuilt), New York ca. 1967–72York ca. 1967-72

Perspective section drawing of the Lower Manhattan Expressway / City Corridor project (unbuilt), New York 1972

Interior perspective of Tuskegee Institute Chapel (now Tuskeegee University), Tuskeegee Alabama ca. 1960

Walker Guest House, Sanibel Island, Florida 1952. Photo: Ezra Stoller/Esto, Yossi Milo Gallery

Temple Street Parking Garage, New Haven, Connecticut 1962. Photo: Ezra Stoller/Esto, Yossi Milo Gallery