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Bruce Goffs Bavinger House

Date Submitted: 02/02/2004 11:55:04
Category: / Science & Technology
Length: 21 pages (5713 words)
Introduction: Bruce Goff¡¦s working career spanned sixty-six years, from 1916, when he began working in an architect¡¦s office, until his death in 1982. During that time he received more than 450 commissions for buildings and related designs, resulting in more than 500 proposals of which at least 147 were realized. Bruce Goff occupied a unique place in American architecture. His buildings looked like those of no other architect. His idiosyncratic designs juxtaposed shapes in unexpected but delightful combinations. …
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…Usonian Houses: The Case for Organic Architecture, New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1976, pp. 160-164. Sergeant, John. ¡§Bruce Goff: The Strict Geometrist.¡¨ Architectural Design, England, Vol. 48, No. 10, 1978, pp. 55-62. Spade, Rupert. ¡§The Last of the Pioneers.¡¨ Architectural Design, Vol. 40, February, 1970, pp. 64-65. Waechter, H.H. ¡§The Architecture of Bruce Goff.¡¨ Journal of the American Institute of Architects, Vol. 32, No. 6, December, 1959, pp. 32-36. Welch, Philip B, ed. Goff on Goff, Norman: the University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.
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