Bruce Goff
Bruce Goff, actually: Bruce Alonzo Goff ( born June 7, 1904 in Alton, Kansas, USA, † 4 August 1982 in Tyler, Texas, USA ) was an American architect.
Life
Age of twelve he began first hour, a lesson in the architectural firm Rush, Endacott and Rush in Tulsa, Oklahoma, whose partner he became in 1930. 1916 or 1917, he became acquainted with the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright to know that deeply impressed him and his life busy.
During the Second World War Goff served as an architect in the U.S. Navy. In 1947 he joined the faculty of architecture at the University of Oklahoma. As of that same year until 1955 he was head of its School of Architecture. Lecture tours have taken him to Europe and Japan. Until his death in 1982 designed Goff building, especially residential buildings, but also churches and together with Bart Prince Shin'enKan the pavilion at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Work
Goff felt the idea of " organic architecture " committed as prominently Louis Sullivan represented Wright, but other architects of the " Prairie School ". In contrast to the International Style, organic architecture aims at a natural, local and resident -related design.
Over the years, succeeded Goff, to break away from Wright's model. He dated the beginning of his own style to the year 1940, when he designed the Helen Unseth House. Goffs mature architecture has, despite the influence of Wright and others, no immediate precursors. It is typical of her that she is in each of the conditions at the site, the building conceives as often indented and broken wholeness, often geometric shapes such as circles and squares superimposed on one another, in addition to wood, stone and steel used corpus of and unusual materials, to to lumps of coal and the wings of an airplane, and facades richly designed.
Effect
In the U.S. architecture of its time Goff was a fine is deterministic outsider; the architect Louis Kahn said of him: " As a busy with Coke bottles and buffer makers of locomotives. " supporters took Goff contrast with the residents of his houses. So put Ruth and Sam Ford, first owner of the Ford House (1947 ), in their front yard on the sign: "We like your house either. "
Only after his death Goff came to honor. The University of Oklahoma is reminiscent of the architect Bruce Goff with a professorship. Increasingly, his work is discussed under the aspect of a " queer architecture". This not only meant that Goff was a homosexual, but also that he has designed his building as a limited viewable retreat and fantasy places.
The filmmaker and artist Heinz Emigholz shows in his film Goff in the Desert (2002/2003) with 62 buildings, almost all extant work of architect from The George Way House (1922 /23) to Al Struckus House (1979). This ( with a memorial stone of Grant Gustafson dramatically designed ) grave Goffs on the Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, is seen III (1997/ 2004) in a sequence of Emigholz ' movie Miscellanea.