Made in the Shade: Paul Rudolph's Florida Houses Revisited

Models, drawings and photographs of Rudolph’s pivotal mid-century architecture are juxtaposed with full-scale prototypes, models and drawings from a studio project conducted at Washington University’s Graduate School of Architecture, bringing together two separate exhibitions: Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses, an exhibition of the architect’s early residential work, and Made in the Shade: Re-fabricating Florida’s Modern Architecture, examples from the studio project at Washington University in St. Louis. The exhibition is curated by Ken Tracy, Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture, Sam Fox School of Visual Arts and Design, Washington University in St. Louis. The exhibition is sponsored in part by the Department of Architecture, Sam Fox School of Visual Arts and Design, Washington University in St. Louis.

Born in 1918, Paul Rudolph studied with Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius at Harvard Graduate School of Design and was later chairman of the school of architecture at Yale University. Buildings of his design can be found in cities around the world, including Boston, Fort Worth, Singapore, Hong Kong and Jakarta. Rudolph continued to design buildings into the 1990s, and died of cancer in 1997 at the age of 79.