Posted October 14, 200915 yr another thread on an annual october ‘open house new york’ weekend site: http://www.ohny.org/ this one got me hyped, it’s famed architect paul rudolph’s manhattan modulightor home (1989) 246 E 58th St/ 2nd Ave, New York neighborhood: Upper East Side about the building: http://blog.ounodesign.com/2009/05/25/paul-rudolphs-modulightor-house/ all about paul rudolph - thx to wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rudolph_%28architect%29 paul rudolph foundation: http://www.paulrudolph.org/ the top two floors are the apartment and a deck and the bottom two floors are modulightor lighting. *if his name doesn’t ring a bell, for one thing rudolph basically invented the everyday florida most of us know, ie., the jalousie windows on homes, open public school campuses, etc. here’s my pic of the building, the apt is the top two floors with modulighter lighting & the rudolph foundation on the bottom. and now for a long poke around in this awesome apt, which you likely have seen in architecture and design magazines and stuff -- at least i found much of it instantly recognizable there is a sharp little deck out back of the apt on the 3rd floor neighbors the docent said the piano barely fit in thru the window sideways by ¼ inch. le corbusiers an architecture student i met rudolph’s picasso book merch – fyi you can stop in the first floor anytime and buy these the kitchen is back there – I think this is the only time i used flash because it didn’t help the middle area between the floors is open looking down from upstairs yes, that is a transformers collection on the right side lastly, here is a look around the foundation downstairs on the first two floors rudolph designs – there are probably much better images of these online somewhere :wink: *** this is why i love ohny weekend, it’s great to visit with paul rudolph’s work ***
October 14, 200915 yr another thread on an annual october ‘open house new york’ weekend site: http://www.ohny.org/ this one got me hyped, it’s famed architect paul rudolph’s manhattan modulightor home (1989) 246 E 58th St/ 2nd Ave, New York neighborhood: Upper East Side about the building: http://blog.ounodesign.com/2009/05/25/paul-rudolphs-modulightor-house/ all about paul rudolph - thx to wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rudolph_%28architect%29 paul rudolph foundation: http://www.paulrudolph.org/ the top two floors are the apartment and a deck and the bottom two floors are modulightor lighting. Well know I know where my chairs siblings are! Thanks!!
October 14, 200915 yr Cool! I hit the PR house at OHNY a few years ago but my camera failed me, so this is a nice refresher. I enjoyed walking through the house, but it couldn't make me forget Rudolph's huge design flops. I think students in his Yale design school building tried burning the place down. And that social services dungeon in Boston is still detested to this day. Talk about an uneven portfolio!
October 14, 200915 yr Very cool house! It's also cool to see the way architects designed back then. I think the only time I dish out the trace paper is when I'm tracing over a computerized drawing I printed out.
October 15, 200915 yr Fascinating designs, and I wouldn't even begin to understand how to live among them.
October 15, 200915 yr What a cool, if disorienting, apartment! It's called "eclectic" sugar! Get into it! Fascinating designs, and I wouldn't even begin to understand how to live among them. Honey, you're one of us. It's natural, you'd know how to work it, so don't short change yourself.
August 17, 201014 yr if his name doesn’t ring a bell, for one thing rudolph basically invented the everyday florida most of us know, ie., the jalousie windows on homes, open public school campuses, etc. There's a good study out that situates the young Paul Rudolph in the context of an emerging Florida modernism: The Sarasota School of Architecture 1941-1966
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