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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.

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LOCATION
Address: 291 Mansfield Street
City: New Haven
State: Connecticut
Zip Code: 06511
Nation: United States

STATUS
Type: Housing
Status: Built

TECHNICAL DATA
Date(s): 1960-1961
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PROFESSIONAL TEAM
Client: Yale University
Architect: Paul Rudolph
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Structural: Henry Pfisterer
MEP: Van Zelm, Haywood & Shadford
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Married Student Housing for Yale University

The project scope is to design apartments to house 51 graduate married couples.
The project is also known as the Mansfield Street Apartments

“It should look like a village, not like housing ... though parts are repeated, they don’t look it. Traditional housing has used repeated housing units, but it doesn’t bore. We too must repeat but not bore. Spaces in between the units are important ... courtyards and terraces, paths and entrances.”

— Paul Rudolph in Architectural Record, March 1961

“A large building can be a village thus reducing the scale to a more appropriate one. The first scheme for the married student housing clarifies the architect’s intentions more than the executed project. ”

— Paul Rudolph in Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl, and Gerhard Schwab. The Architecture of Paul Rudolph. New York: Praeger, 1970. P. 184