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Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses Exhibition

hosted by Florida Southern College

LAKELAND, Fla. (August 26, 2002) — “Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses Exhibition” will be on display at Florida Southern College from Sept. 1 through Oct. 8 in the William M. Hollis Seminar Room, Thad Buckner Building on campus.  Christopher Domin and Joseph King, authors of “Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses,” will give the opening lecture and attend the reception Sept. 6 at 4 p.m. 

Domin, an architect and educator, teaches design studios, contemporary architecture culture, and upper division history/theory seminars at the University of Arizona.  King is an architect practicing on Florida’s west coast.  He specializes in regional issues of sustainability in design and development and restoration of postwar modern architecture. 

Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) was a modernist architect best known for his major public and academic projects.  He received his master’s degree in architecture from Harvard, and served as chair of the School of Architecture at Yale from 1957-1965.  Rudolph began his career designing modest homes in Florida.  He was heavily influenced by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and visited the campus during the years Wright's buildings were constructed. 

The exhibit, sponsored by FSC’s Frank Lloyd Wright Programs, focuses on Rudolph’s early residential work of the 1940s and 1950s, relatively unknown to many architects today.  The houses were built economically and designed to harmonize with natural surroundings.  The exhibit includes scale models of a few houses, reproductions of drawings from the Paul Rudolph Archives, and period photography by Ezra Stoller. 

The exhibit will be on display Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Sundays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.  For further information, please contact the alumni office at 680-4110.

About Florida Southern College

Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church.  The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.  Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world.

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