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Marina City, Chicago
American architect of Marina City Towers in Chicago, the tallest residential and concrete buildings in the world at the time of completion. Trained at Harvard University and the Bauhaus, lifelong Chicago resident. Known for innovative solutions for both residences and industrial design projects before Marina City (prefab bathrooms, plywood boxcars, demountable housing units). The work of Goldberg and his office changed after the success of Marina City. Numerous hospitals, schools, and other public institutional buildings were designed. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...
The Betrand Goldberg Papers are held in the Ryerson and Burnham Archives and the Department of Architecture at The Art Institute of Chicago. On the western edge of Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, is the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the premier art museums and schools in the United States, known especially for the extensive collection of impressionist and American art in its museum. ...
After BertrandGoldberg left his native Chicago in 1932 to study architecture at the Bauhaus, his every inclination was to design within the language of Mies van der Rohe.
At the same time, Goldberg considered it a mistake for New York's new Museum of Modern Art to anoint Bauhaus design concepts as the "International Style." By seeing modernism as interpreted by the European minimalists only as a "style," was to miss their point entirely.
Goldberg felt that the purpose of a city was for interpersonal interaction.
BertrandGoldberg (July 17, 1913–October 8, 1997) was an American architect, best known for the Marina City complex in Chicago, the tallest residential and concrete buildings in the world at the time of completion.
Goldberg was born in Chicago, Illinois, and trained at the Cambridge School of Landscape Architecture (now part of Harvard University).
The Betrand Goldberg Papers are held in the Ryerson and Burnham Archives and the Department of Architecture at The Art Institute of Chicago.
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