Art and Architecture Building, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Paul Rudolph

1958

An ink-on-board sectional perspective by Paul Rudolph that reveals the Art and Architecture Building’s layered interior, aiming to show how concrete volumes, terraces, and circulation interlock to create a complex spatial sequence.

Dense, parallel hatching and precise linework carve deep concrete masses and a glassy central atrium, where tiny human figures and hanging plants give scale to dramatic stacked platforms, shadowed voids, and rhythmic vertical elements.

The drawing exemplifies Rudolph’s influential Brutalist vision—using sectional narrative and sculpted concrete to redefine architectural representation and campus modernism in the postwar period.

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Art Terms

Brutalist Architecture Architectural drawing Architecture Drawing Ink Section drawing Perspective Built environment

Exhibitions

Modern Architecture for the Modern School

1942

Built in USA: Post-War Architecture

1953

Architecture in the New York Area

1952

Architecture in Government Housing

1936