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: 9A Chatsworth Road
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Zip Code: 249788
Nation: Singapore

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Type: Residence
Status: Built

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Date(s): 1990-1994
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Client: Kheng Leong Co. Pte. Ltd.
Architect: Paul Rudolph
Associate Architect: DP Architects, Pte.
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Chao Residence

The project consists of a 15,000 s.f. single-family residence, placed on a sloping landscape. It features a loggia which connects the two main living spaces of the house.
The large moveable screens have been removed.
As of 2011 it is rented to the Government of Ireland as the Ambassador's residence.

“Private residential commissions release Rudolph from commercial constraints and public program in order to fully explore the implications of dynamic space. Cut into a downward sloping landscape, the Wee Ee Chao house is a palatial compound of expansive loggias, reflecting pools, and glass-enclosed rooms protected from the sun by diaphanous plastic awnings. Rudolph unifies these elements through a Wrightian parti od spaces that thrust and counterthrust around a granite-paved courtyard.”

— Paul Rudolph: Explorations in Modern Architecture, 1976-1993