Daily Dose 1904

Paul Rudolph - II

Daily Dose Monographic Images 1904 | Paul Rudolph - Temple Street Parking Garage, New Haven, 1959-1961 After sneaking in the Art & Architecture building two weeks ago, I had the chance to get a glimpse of the familiar parking structure as I was running to catch my train. Only later I found out that it was also the work of Paul Rudolph. Somehow I find it resonating with the Bahrain parking of Kerez, echoing the same structural clarity and architectural coherence, sixty years ago. “When the New Haven parking garage was being constructed, the remainder of the buildings in the adjacent blocks was not determined. They should have been designed to dominate the parking garage…The parking garage is a peculiar twentieth-century phenomenon. The one in New Haven comes from the design of throughways. Most parking garages are merely skeletal structures which didn’t get any walls. They are just office building structures with the glass left out. I wanted to make a building which said it dealt with cars and movement. I wanted there to be no doubt that this is a parking garage.” From: Conversations with Architects: Philip Johnson, Kevin Roche, Paul Rudolph, Bertrand Goldberg, Morris Lapidus, Louis Kahn, Charles Moore, Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown . New York, Praeger, 1973 Photography by Julius Shulman, Ezra Stoller, Yukio Futagawa. Via the Paul Rudolph Institute, Hidden Architecture.