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Paul Marvin Rudolph 1918–97, American modernist architect, b. Elkton, Ky. Rudolph taught at a number of universities and served as chair of the architecture department at Yale Univ. from 1958–65. He was one of the most influential American architects of the mid-20th cent., creating buildings often characterized by boldly contrasting masses and innovative surfaces. He designed the Jewett Art Center (1959) at Wellesley College, the Greeley (Colo.) Forestry Building (1959), the Government Service Center in Boston (1963), and the famous Art and Architecture Building (1964) at Yale. Other works include the Earl Brydges Memorial Library in Niagara Falls, N.Y. (1970–75) and, in Atlanta, the Burroughs Wellcome corporate headquarters (1970) and the Chapel at the Chandler School of Theology (1979). Many of his later commissions were in Southeast Asia, where modernist approaches remained popular.
See his book on architecture (1970); study by R. Spade (1971); and bibliography by C. R. Smith (1987).
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