Decision Nears Over Fate of a Brutalist Masterpiece      Full
Story: Rudolph in Ruins    Paul Rudolph who?  Who do architect's
build for, themselves or the clients and communities the
buildings will live in? Paul Rudolph is taught in schools
becasue his brutalist work strove to add interest to an
otherwise still born Bauhaus aesthetic, but that surely
shouldn't be reason to continue the charade of his merit. I
agree one should save history, contrary to everything Mr.
Rudolph and his fellow modernists stood for, but this building
seems to fail on every functional level, ironically the main leg
modernists use to stand on. There are other "masterpieces" we
can save to remind us of the dark ages of architecture, but this
building and the whole edifice of the greatness of these kinds
of buildings ought to be collapsed.  The Purpose of
Preservationism  We should remember that architectural
preservationism began as a reaction against modernists who
demolished buildings with human scale and character and who
replaced