Bertrand goldberg biography books list

Bertrand goldberg biography books list: During Goldberg's life, a major

Allerton Building, Ryerson Library, S. Bertrand Goldberg was born in Chicago, Illinois in to a family of long-time Chicagoans. Goldberg's first commission, a single-story residence with a unique canvas exterior, was the Harriet Higginson Residence, built in Chicago in In Goldberg was licensed and, upon receiving several small residential commissions, established a small office in Chicago, also working intermittently with associates Leland Atwood Atwood and Goldberg, and Gilmer V.

Black on several early projects. Beginning in with a plywood house in Lafayette, Indiana, Goldberg began to experiment with prefabricated design. Additional prefabricated design commissions were received from the United States government, including a convertible Bofors 90mm gun crate for the Army and a Mobile Delousing Unit and Mobile Penicillin Laboratory both for the Office of Strategic Services, all circa From to Goldberg served as a consulting architect for the Pressed Steel Car Company, which resulted in innovative products such as the Unicel Prefabricated Freight Boxcar, whose shell was constructed entirely of laminated plywood, and the Unishelter Prefabricated Housing Unit.

The mid to latter s saw relatively few Goldberg projects come to fruition, though the Drexel Town and Garden Apartments on Chicago's south side were notable as Goldberg's first multi-family residential work and as affordable urban housing for the working class. Completed in , Marina City was one of the first residential and commercial mixed-use buildings built in the United States and was also the tallest reinforced concrete building in the world.

Though having studied under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Bauhaus in Berlin and apprenticed in Chicago, Goldberg's mature work, beginning with Marina City, is notable for being a marked departure from the typical work of Mies and the Chicago School. Goldberg, along with Harry Weese and Walter Netsch, was integral to the first wave of post-war, non-Miesian architecture in Chicago.