Welcome to the Archives of the Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation. The purpose of this online database is to function as a tool for scholars, students, architects, preservationists, journalists and other interested parties. The archive consists of photographs, slides, articles and publications from Rudolph’s lifetime; physical drawings and models; personal photos and memorabilia; and contemporary photographs and articles.

Unless otherwise noted, all images and drawings are copyright © The Estate of Paul Rudolph and The Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation. Please speak with a representative of the Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation to get permission to use any drawings or photos. Drawings, sketches and other materials produced by Rudolph’s architectural office at the Library of Congress are maintained there for preservation, but the intellectual property rights belong to the Paul Rudolph Estate and Ernst Wagner, founder of the Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation.

LOCATION
Address: 303 East Drive
City: East Fishkill
State: New York
Zip Code: 12533
Nation: United States

STATUS
Type: Office
Status: Built

TECHNICAL DATA
Date(s): 1962-1966
Site Area: 4,309,826 s.f.
Floor Area: 500,000 s.f.
Height:
Floors (Above Ground):
Building Cost:

PROFESSIONAL TEAM
Client: IBM Corporation
Architect: Paul Rudolph
Associate Architect:
Landscape:
Structural:
MEP: Walter Kidde Constructors, Inc.
QS/PM:

SUPPLIERS
Contractor:
Subcontractor(s):

Research, Office and Manufacturing Facilities for the IBM Corporation

Project is designed as a home of the firm’s Component Parts Division.
Site was originally known as the Lepetka Farm.
Construction begins April 3, 1963 as was expected to be complete mid-1965 with partial occupancy scheduled in Fall of 1964.
Sunshades originally proposed for the project are removed from the design to save cost, resulting in the vertical stubs that appear above the top row of windows.

“Paul Rudolph’s IBM building at East Fishkill, New York was conceived as a factory, laboratory, and headquarters for the Components Division (which no longer exists as such) - all in the same package. One of its most expensive features, a mechanical floor sandwiched between the two occupied floors (except where all three are used as offices) was a requirement of the client. In a last-minute effort at economy, the concrete sunshades were removed, leaving their stubs as reminders of a silhouette that might have been.”

— Dixon, John Morris. "IBM Thinks Twice." Architectural Forum (March 1966)