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Sarasota News Leader January 18, 2013 Page 81 ning with his earliest work in Sarasota and continuing throughout his highly publicized and widely known career, Rudolph's work helped to shape American architecture in the post-World War II era." Hall presented a slide show of Rudolph's works, many of them located in Sarasota, as he discussed the man and his designs. "Arguably Rudolph's best and most innovaRudolph's design of the exterior panels was tive work was the houses he designed for the a distinctive feature of the original Riverbarrier islands bordering the southwest coast view High School in Sarasota. Photo courtesy of the Florida peninsula," Hall explained as Sarasota County Historical Resources he delighted the appreciative audience with photos, renderings and sketches of Rudolph's tions of modernism that remains in the United States," Hall said. projects. Rudolph apparently experimented with ma- "We have an architectural legacy that is quite terials he saw used in the military and on air- renowned, and deservedly so," he noted. planes, as well as new technologies previously "What's important about Paul Rudolph and unused in the building trade, Hall indicated. his early years," Hall pointed out, "is he set "The result was an architecture that remains the dialogue nationally and internationally on among the most dynamic regional interpreta- creating Regional Modernism." Greg Hall speaks to an audience in the conference room at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Photo by Scott Proffitt