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.

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LOCATION
Address: 1455 Veterans Memorial Hwy # 201
City: Islandia
State: New York
Zip Code: 11749
Nation: United States

STATUS
Type: Office
Status: Project; Completed by Others

TECHNICAL DATA
Date(s): 1970
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PROFESSIONAL TEAM
Client: Staller Associates, Erwin P. Staller (1921-2019)
Architect: Paul Rudolph
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Central Suffolk Office Park

The project scope is to design an office park for Erwin P. Staller (1921-2019) a Long Island real estate developer who, along with his father Max Staller, was among the first entrepreneurs to develop retail shopping centers in Long Island, New York starting in the late 1950’s.
Since the workers who will use the office park are expected to arrive by car from the surrounding suburb, Rudolph creates the project as a series of long, low buildings constructed on stilts to provide protected parking areas underneath. The units step down across the sloped site and are able to be interconnected.
The office units are two stories in height raised above the 360-car parking lot on thin columns, and to be built in pairs, each with its own utility core.
Each 6,000 s.f. office unit has a pitched roof with trellises in order to compliment the neighboring residential areas on two sides of the site.
The building exteriors are to be composed of rusting steel with little glazing.
The project is located on a five-acre plot and to be constructed by Wheeler Associates
Mr. Staller hires
Mr. Staller also commissions Rudolph to design the Staller residence in 1973 for himself and his wife, Pearl “Freddie” Friedman.