Paul Rudolph and the project for the Finney Guest House

Abstract

This article considers the status of the project for the Finney Guest House within the professional career of Paul Rudolph, and its relationship to two further projects carried out during the same period, the Revere Quality House and the Healy Guest House. In all three cases Roberta Healy Finney appeared as the client or promotor, which leads to the thought that the Finney House might be a precedent for the Healy House. This text comments on some of the best drawings made by Paul Rudolph in the 1940s, including an exercise in the form of a project that he completed under the direction of Walter Gropius, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for obtaining the degree of Master in Architecture at the University of Harvard.

Keywords

• paul rudolph
• ralph twitchell
• finney house
• healy house