Main entry:

Goff, Bruce, 1904-1982, architect.

Title & Author:

Bruce Goff : material worlds / edited by Alison Fisher and Craig Lee ; with contributions by Lawrence Chua, David G. De Long, Penelope Dean, Alison Fisher, Scott Herring, Janna Ireland, Hadley Jerman Bruss, Kelly Keegan, Craig Lee, Paula Lupkin, and Nolan Vallier.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : The Art Institute of Chicago, [2025]
©2025
New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press

Description:

295 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 30 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, December 21, 2025-March 29, 2026.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-283) and index.
Bruce Goff: beyond architecture / David G. De Long -- Introduction / Alison Fisher and Craig Lee -- Object atlas / Alison Fisher and Craig Lee -- The queer modernism of Bruce Goff and Richard San Jule / Scott Herring -- Cellophane and seashells: the materiality of Bruce Goff / Alison Fisher -- Gallery I -- In a Native present: Bruce Goff and Oklahoma / Hadley Jerman Bruss -- The Modernist in the audience: Bruce Goff's music and domestic theaters / Nolan Vallier -- Gallery II -- Compositions, exercises, improvisations: a practice in painting and abstraction / Craig Lee -- Strange surfaces: material manipulation in Bruce Goff's compositions / Kelly Keegan -- Gallery III -- Asia as method: Bruce Goff and the plural genealogies of Modern architecture / Lawrence Chua -- Electronic enclosure: Bruce Goff and the postwar bachelor pad / Paula Lupkin -- Autofuturism: architecture for this thing that is you / Penelope Dean -- California Trinity: the Al Struckus house / Janna Ireland.

Summary:

Catalogue of a retrospective that celebrates the unbounded creative practice of American architect Bruce Goff (1904-1982). Best known for his groundbreaking, idiosyncratic single-family homes in suburban and rural areas across the United States, Goff charted an alternative narrative for a modern architecture imbued with individuality, materiality, and fantastical invention. Dubbed the "Michelangelo of kitsch" by architecture critic Charles Jencks, Goff rejected the minimalist aesthetics and the metropolitan worldview of his modernist contemporaries. Instead, his work was inspired by everyday consumer goods and building practices from small towns and cities in the Midwest and the Great Plains where he grew up, trained, taught, and based his practice. In this environment, Goff found fertile ground for an expanded range of architectural forms and materials. His homes featured domes, spirals, and tetrahedrons and a wide variety of materials including natural elements such as coal and goose feathers and manufactured products like astroturf, cellophane, glass cullet, and sequins. Importantly, this decisive break with convention was built on learnings from his lifelong mentor Frank Lloyd Wright.

ISBN:

0300284071 hardcover
9780300284072 hardcover

Subject:

Goff, Bruce, 1904-1982 Exhibitions.
Goff, Bruce, 1904-1982 Criticism and interpretation.
Goff, Bruce, 1904-1982
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architects United States 20th century.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architectes États-Unis 20e siècle.
Architecture
Architects
United States

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
History
Exhibition catalogs
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Fisher, Alison, editor.
Lee, Craig, editor.
Chua, Lawrence, writer of supplementary textual content.
De Long, David Gilson, 1939- writer of supplementary textual content.
Dean, Penelope, writer of supplementary textual content.
Herring, Scott, writer of supplementary textual content.
Ireland, Janna, writer of supplementary textual content.
Bruss, Hadley Jerman, writer of supplementary textual content.
Keegan, Kelly, writer of supplementary textual content.
Lupkin, Paula, writer of supplementary textual content.
Vallier, Nolan, writer of supplementary textual content.
Art Institute of Chicago, host institution.

Material worlds

Holdings:

Location: Library main 324488
Call No.: 324488
Copy: 1
Status: Available