Paul Rudolph studied under Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, at Harvard and graduated in 1947. His classmates included I.M. Pei and Philip Johnson. Paul Rudolph´s rise had begun in Florida in the 1950s with a string of delicate Modernist houses. These had led to larger commissions, notably a high school in Sarasota and an art center at Wellesley College. At only 40, Rudolph was made chairman of Yale´s architecture department. Certainly his most well-known building is the Art and Architecture Building at Yale University, controversial from the very start (Rudolph was his own client for the project). With the Yale A&A building, Rudolph began to design in a monumentalist style which would later be known as brutalism. During his years at Yale he began receiving commissions for monumental structures such as the Government Services Center in Boston and the SMTI / UMass Dartmouth campus. Other buildings include the Healy Guest House or Cocoon House in Sarasota, FL; the Walker Guest House on Sanibel Island, FL; the Milam House in Jacksonville, FL; The Chapel at the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, AL; The Bass House in Fort Worth, TX. By the mid 1960s he was one of the most celebrated and in demand architects in the country. By the end of the 1970s, he received commissions for large scale projects in Singapore, Hong Kong and Indonesia. Paul Rudolph died 1997 from asbestos cancer.