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Calendar. 08.26.11.

By c-monster on August 26, 2011 in Architecture, C-Monster and Calendar. Closed


An image of Paul Rudolph’s Micheels House, in Westport, Conn., just prior to demolition. Part of the series After You Left, They Took It Apart, by photographer Chris Mottalini. The series will be on view at the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University in conjunction with another Rudolph-themed show: An Architect’s Vision. The university’s arts center was designed by the architect. Opens next Tuesday, in Hamilton, N.Y. (Image courtesy of Mottalini.)

 

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Paul Rudolph’s Riverview High School in Sarasota to be demolished.

By c-monster on June 18, 2008 in Architecture, C-Monster and Florida. 12 Comments

Riverview High School Sarasota
Rudolph’s Riverview High School in Sarasota, Fla. Built in 1958. (Photos by C-M.)

Sad news: The Sarasota, Fla. school board voted to demolish Paul Rudolph’s historic Riverview High School to make way for parking and ballfields, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports today. The decision was made largely because of a lack of funds needed to update the buildings to other uses. This ends a two year effort by preservationists to save the historic, Modernist high school. (See a view of the school in 1958 here.)

This is unfortunate for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that as Rudolph’s smaller structures are razed, it leaves us with ever fewer examples of the architect’s graceful early works, which, in my mind, are far more intriguing than his later buildings, which are all about concrete-heavy brutalism.

After the jump, more pix of RHS I snapped when I trespassed all over Sarasota last summer to check out the city’s trove of Modernist buildings.

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