Stephen Vincent Kobasa takes his own look at the Yale show Model City and dwells on the true spirit of Rudolph's work, relishing in its comfort with 'ruin' in Building Codes: Lessons in clarity from Paul Rudolph.
He summarizes the show and its film as a "record of a tragedy: The architect who triumphs then falls into disfavor, with posthumous honors come too late to save much of his work from the wrecking company"
Paul's often quoted inner modern struggle was between the CAVE and the FISH BOWL. One is natural, the other fabricated. Somehow, the former just fits its prophesy of ashes to ashes all too well.
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