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: New York
State: New York
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Nation: United States
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Type: Masterplan / Housing
Status: Project
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Date(s): 1967
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Architect: Paul Rudolph
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Lower Manhattan Expressway
On June 06, 1992, a 40 x 33 1/2" original drawing of the project signed “Paul Rudolph ‘72” is purchased by the Howard Gilman Foundation at auction at Christie’s for $2,860 and gifted to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
From October 01 - November 20, 2010 the project is the subject of an exhibit at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union titled Paul Rudolph: Lower Manhattan Expressway, organized in collaboration with The Drawing Center. Approximately 30 full-scale reproductions of drawings, prints, and photographs dated from 1967-1972 are on public view. The works are shown together with a reconstruction of Rudolph's model of the LME project created by students of the School of Architecture. The exhibition is co-curated by Jim Walrod and Ed Rawlings, Principal, Rawlings Architects.
““A conventional urban expressway might very well be more abusive to the city. On the other hand, building a new type of urban corridor designed in relation to the city districts through which it passes and engineered in such a way as to be capable of dissolving traffic and diminishing noise, exhaust, environmental and surface-street problems that have plagued the corridor area for decades might just be the most desirable approach.””
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
“Study of the Lower Manhattan Expressway in the project ‘new forms of the evolving city.” Architecture and Urbanism 80 (July 1977): 136, 306-311.
Franzen, Ulrich, and Paul Rudolph. Evolving Cities: Urban Design Proposals, with text by Peter Wolf. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1974.