This image of Rudolph as unapologetic modernist made it easy for others to portray him as out of touch, especially as the postmodern movement chipped away at his legacy. Ironically, throughout Writings on Architecture Rudolph articulates the same arguments against orthodox modernism later picked up by postmodernists: its prescriptive approach to program, its lack of imagination and its abhorrence of urban fabric. Of his old teacher, Rudolph writes, “Gropius searched eloquently for a scientific rationalism that could be applied to the environment . . . and closed his eyes to the resultant monotony and inhumanity.” [page 78] He was no easier on the only three architects he admired: “Corbu wanted to tear down central Paris and rebuild it with his slabs. Wright wanted to abandon the city and give every man an acre, and Mies apparently felt that acres of curtain wall could make a city.”