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.

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City: Birmingham
State: Alabama
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Nation: United States

STATUS
Type: Residence
Status: Project

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Date(s): 1965
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Architect: Paul Rudolph
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Callahan Residence

“A living room on a platform.”

— Paul Rudolph, Architectural Record June 1966

“Each space is handled as an independent volume with major openings toward the principal view, but with interconnections and interpenetrations of space in a multiplicity of ways. In the Milam House the spaces were always tangential, but here they are offset in plan and section, thereby clearly defining individual areas.”

— Paul Rudolph in Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl, and Gerhard Schwab. The Architecture of Paul Rudolph. New York: Praeger, 1970. P. 76

DRAWINGS - Design Drawings / Renderings

DRAWINGS - Construction Drawings

DRAWINGS - Shop Drawings

PHOTOS - Project Model

PHOTOS - During Construction

PHOTOS - Completed Project

PHOTOS - Current Conditions

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PROJECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Abercrombie, Stanley. “Two-way relationship of drawings and design.” il. American Institute of Architects. Journal 71 (September 1982): 68-69.

“Chronological list of works by Paul Rudolph, 1946-1974.” il., plan. Architecture and Urbanism 49 (January 1975): 160.

Maganago Lampugnani, Vittorio. Architecture of the 20th Century in Drawings. New York: Rizzoli, 1982. il. p. 101.

Middleton, Robin. “Disintegration.” il. Architectural Design 37 (May 1967): 203-204.

“Paul Rudolph’s elaborated spaces: six new projects.” il., plan, sec., elev. Architectural Record 139 (June 1966): 142-143.

“Project pour une habitation.” il. plan, sec. Architecture D’Aujourd’hui 35 (September-November 1965): 35.

Rudolph, Paul. The Architecture of Paul Rudolph. Introduction by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy. New York": Praeger, 1970. il., plans, sec. pp. 76-79.

Paul Rudolph, Dessins D’Architecture. Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1974. il. pp. 36-37.