They got the 1957 Barnet Yanofsky house , to be exact , by Rudolph , the onetime dean of the Yale School of Architecture , who is remembered for his craggy Art and Architecture Building in New Haven , Conn. ; the airy , pavilion-like houses he designed around Sarasota , Fla. , in the 1940s and 1950s ; and his own multilevel , plexiglass-heavy townhouse on Beekman Place in Manhattan .