Welcome to the Archives of The Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture. The purpose of this online collection is to function as a tool for scholars, students, architects, preservationists, journalists and other interested parties. The archive consists of photographs, slides, articles and publications from Rudolph’s lifetime; physical drawings and models; personal photos and memorabilia; and contemporary photographs and articles.
Some of the materials are in the public domain, some are offered under Creative Commons, and some are owned by others, including the Paul Rudolph Estate. Please speak with a representative of The Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture before using any drawings or photos in the Archives. In all cases, the researcher shall determine how to appropriately publish or otherwise distribute the materials found in this collection, while maintaining appropriate protection of the applicable intellectual property rights.
In his will, Paul Rudolph gave his Architectural Archives (including drawings, plans, renderings, blueprints, models and other materials prepared in connection with his professional practice of architecture) to the Library of Congress Trust Fund following his death in 1997. A Stipulation of Settlement, signed on June 6, 2001 between the Paul Rudolph Estate and the Library of Congress Trust Fund, resulted in the transfer of those items to the Library of Congress among the Architectural Archives, that the Library of Congress determined suitable for its collections. The intellectual property rights of items transferred to the Library of Congress are in the public domain. The usage of the Paul M. Rudolph Archive at the Library of Congress and any intellectual property rights are governed by the Library of Congress Rights and Permissions.
However, the Library of Congress has not received the entirety of the Paul Rudolph architectural works, and therefore ownership and intellectual property rights of any materials that were not selected by the Library of Congress may not be in the public domain and may belong to the Paul Rudolph Estate.
LOCATION
Address: 370 Prospect Street
City: New Haven
State: Connecticut
Zip Code: 06511
Nation: United States
STATUS
Type: Academic
Status: Built
TECHNICAL DATA
Date(s): 1957-1959
Site Area:
Floor Area: 24,246 s.f.
Height:
Floors (Above Ground):
Building Cost:
PROFESSIONAL TEAM
Client: Yale University
Architect: Paul Rudolph (1918-1997)
Associate Architect: Charles Henry Brewer, Jr.
Landscape:
Structural: Henry A. Pfisterer
MEP: Hubbard, Lawless & Blakeley
QS/PM:
SUPPLIERS
Contractor: Dwight Building Company
Subcontractor(s):
William B. Greeley Memorial Laboratory for the Yale Forestry School
The project scope is to design a new facility for the Yale School of Forestry, the oldest forestry school in the country. The building site is located just below Marsh Hall, the original home of the Forestry School.
The building program includes classrooms and facilities for research in wood technology, forest genetics, tree physiology and forest pathology.
The building is among the earliest of Yale’s modern buildings and the first by Paul Rudolph for the university.
According to the 1967 book ‘Yale: A Pictorial History’ by Rueben A. Holden, the design is “intended to symbolize the study of the forest, its Y-shaped columns spreading like trees to form a grove.”
Today the building houses faculty, staff, 2 seminar rooms and labs. It also is home to the Center for Green Chemistry & Green Engineering with a separate greenhouse (4,278 GSF)
“A precast concrete structure entirely exposed which attempts to exploit some of the plastic characteristics of concrete. The relationship between the enclosed nature of the various rooms and the pavillion-like character of the building is unresolved.”
DRAWINGS - Design Drawings / Renderings
DRAWINGS - Construction Drawings
DRAWINGS - Shop Drawings
PHOTOS - Project Model
PHOTOS - During Construction
PHOTOS - Completed Project
PHOTOS - Current Conditions
LINKS FOR MORE INFORMATION
RELATED DOWNLOADS
PROJECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Chronological List of Works by Paul Rudolph, 1946-1974.” Architecture and Urbanism, no. 49, Jan. 1975.
“Concrete Orchard: Yale’s Architectural Renaiisance Is Furthered by a Laboratory for Forestry Research by Paul Rudolph.” Architectural Forum, no. 111, Oct. 1959, pp. 138–41.
Cranston Jones. Architecture Today and Tomorrow. McGraw-Hill, 1961.
Don Metz. New Architecture in New Haven. MIT Press, 1966.
---. New Architecture in New Haven. MIT Press, 1973.
“Electrical Distribution: Forestry Laboratory at Yale.” Progressive Architecture, no. 41, Feb. 1960, pp. 172–73.
Francesco Tentori. “Greeley Memorial Laboratory per La Facolta d’agraria Di Yale, New Haven, Connecticut, 1959.” Casabella, no. 234, Dec. 1959.
Freeman, Belmont. “Review - Model City: Buildings and Projects by Paul Rudolph for Yale and New Haven.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 69, no. 1, [Society of Architectural Historians, University of California Press], 2010, pp. 134–36, https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2010.69.1.134. JSTOR.
Fumihiko Maki. Contemporary Architecture of the World, 1961. Shokokusha, 1961.
Henry A. Millon. “Rudolph at the Crossroads.” Architectural Design, no. 30, Dec. 1960, pp. 497–99.
Paul Rudolph. Paul Rudolph: Dessins D’Architecture. Office du Livre, 1974.
Paul Rudolph and Sybil Moholy-Nagy. The Architecture of Paul Rudolph. Praeger, 1970.
Philip Johnson. “Three Architects.” Art In America, no. 48, Spring 1960, pp. 70–73.
Reuben A. Holden. Yale: A Pictorial History. Yale University Press, 1967.
Rupert Spade. Paul Rudolph. Simon and Schuster, 1971.
Tony Monk. The Art and Architecture of Paul Rudolph. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 1999.
Walter McQuade. “Exploded Landscape.” Perspecta, no. 7, 1961, pp. 83–84.