Today's archidose #548
Here are some photos I took of the Woman's Home Companion House in Warson Woods, St. Louis County, Missouri by Paul Rudolph, 1956. I learned about the house at B.E.L.T. and found it via Triangle Modernist Houses.
Per a link on this page at the UMass Dartmouth site Paul Rudolph & his Architecture, the below rendering by Rudolph is for the same project. I can see the similarities in the open gable roof at the front of the house, but it is also quite different. I can't help but wonder what happened as the project was realized, turning it into a hybrid between the original and a fairly traditional suburban ranch house. This is a Rudolph design that is not very well documented, so the details will probably remain a mystery.
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Per a link on this page at the UMass Dartmouth site Paul Rudolph & his Architecture, the below rendering by Rudolph is for the same project. I can see the similarities in the open gable roof at the front of the house, but it is also quite different. I can't help but wonder what happened as the project was realized, turning it into a hybrid between the original and a fairly traditional suburban ranch house. This is a Rudolph design that is not very well documented, so the details will probably remain a mystery.
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Oh boy, that design went from elegant to awkward, real fast!
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