Finney Guest House Project, Siesta Key, Florida, Aerial perspective

Paul Rudolph

1949

An aerial-perspective architectural rendering in ink on printed polymer sheet mounted to paper that presents Paul Rudolph’s 1949 design for a Siesta Key guest house, intended to communicate the house’s plan, structure, and its relationship to water and landscape.

What strikes you is the long, taut pavilion hovering over a rectangular pool and canal—drawn in precise perspective with stippled textures and stark tonal contrasts that make the building read as both delicate and engineered within its coastal setting.

The drawing sits at the crossroads of postwar American modernism and the Sarasota School’s climate-responsive experimentation, illustrating Rudolph’s early use of linear plans, cantilevers, and choreographed spatial sequences that helped reshape mid‑century coastal residential architecture.

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Architectural drawing Architecture Drawing Ink Perspective Plan drawing Built environment Landscape

Exhibitions

Built in USA: Post-War Architecture

1953

Modern Architecture for the Modern School

1942

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1974

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1970