• Celebrated, reviled, reborn: Paul Rudolph, the brutalist architect with a party streak

    Celebrated, reviled, reborn: Paul Rudolph, the brutalist architect with a party streak
    He preferred caves to goldfish bowls and had a transparent-bottomed bath poking through his kitchen ceiling – but most of his audacious work has been demolished. In a new exhibition, it rises againA striking matrix of slender steel struts and intersecting planes of glass stands on a street in midtown Manhattan, forming a crystalline tower amid a regular row of townhouses. The layered elements of the facade appear to slip and slide past each other, puncturing a vertiginous stack of interior

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