A final building in Southeast Asia, the Dharmala Headquarters, in Jakarta, in many ways brings into sharp focus a number of longstanding issues in the work of Paul Rudolph. […] The complex contains some of the same elements seen in his other buildings in Southeast Asia, indeed in almost every large Rudolph complex since the 1960s, but the elements are all more elaborated. […] Because the Dharmala Building pushes so far along a number of paths Rudolph had been exploring since the ’60s, it raised interesting questions. One concerns the obvious objection that forms like thatched roofs, appropriate in small-scale frame architecture, are hardly appropriate for an air-conditioned high-rise office. Rudolph would counter by saying that the form of Indonesian roofs only served as a point of departure.