textual records
ARCH254776
August 1975
textual records
August 1975
textual records
ARCH254777
August 1975
textual records
August 1975
drawings
ARCH254778
circa 1947-2002
drawings
circa 1947-2002
Project
AP022.S1.1974.PR09
Description:
File documents a glass-roofed provincial courthouse building as part of Robson Square (built), Block 71, Vancouver, British Columbia. File contains design development drawings, presentation drawings, working drawings, shop drawings, photographic material, and textual records.
1974-1979
Provincial Law Courts Complex, Robson Square
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AP022.S1.1974.PR09
Description:
File documents a glass-roofed provincial courthouse building as part of Robson Square (built), Block 71, Vancouver, British Columbia. File contains design development drawings, presentation drawings, working drawings, shop drawings, photographic material, and textual records.
Project
1974-1979
Project
AP022.S1.1966.PR01
Description:
File documents a study for the development of blocks 61 and 71, including an H-shaped government office tower, adjoining law courts, shopping arcades, a civic centre, public spaces and parking (not built), Vancouver, British Columbia. This study was a precursor to the Three-Block project and Robson Square. File contains photographs and a textual document.
1966
Vancouver Downtown Core Development Study
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AP022.S1.1966.PR01
Description:
File documents a study for the development of blocks 61 and 71, including an H-shaped government office tower, adjoining law courts, shopping arcades, a civic centre, public spaces and parking (not built), Vancouver, British Columbia. This study was a precursor to the Three-Block project and Robson Square. File contains photographs and a textual document.
Project
1966
textual records
ARCH254779
Description:
pages of illustrations from a report that include maps, perspective sketch, section through government complex & law courts, multiple views of model
circa 1947-2002
Pages of illustrations from a report that include maps
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ARCH254779
Description:
pages of illustrations from a report that include maps, perspective sketch, section through government complex & law courts, multiple views of model
textual records
circa 1947-2002
photographs
ARCH254780
circa 1947-2002
photographs
circa 1947-2002
Series
Personal Papers
AP032.S1
Description:
This series contains chronologically-arranged papers, photographs and drawings concerning Goldsmith's life from about the time of his enrollment at the Armour Institute in Chicago, to the mid-1950s when he returned from Europe to America to join Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. These documents are records of Goldsmith's early influences, and his education and training as an architect at the Armour Institute (later the Illinois Institute of Technology) and at the University of Rome. The papers also concern his service as an structural engineer in the U.S. armed forces, work in the office of Mies van der Rohe, and travels in Europe in the early 1950's all of which could be also considered as part of his education. The documents in this series are interesting for the quantity of Goldsmith's student sketches and research notes, including lectures by and observations on Mies van der Rohe and Pier Luigi Nervi. Moreover, correspondence, notes and photographs reveal a variety of other important influences on the young Goldsmith, such as a pilgrimage to visit Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesan East, and letters to Buckminister Fuller. Of particular interest are the papers concerning Mies van der Rohe as teacher, mentor and friend to Goldsmith. The fonds contains various documents from office files, including Goldsmith's notations on projects like the Farnsworth House, and collections of period photographs and blueprints of Mies' buildings and furniture designs. Related documentation on Mies exists in various files throughout the fonds, especially in the Mies van der Rohe Centennial Project located in Series 3: Professional Activities - Teaching. The last section in this series, Papers and Correspondence, which consists of personal and business papers dating from the late 1950's to the mid-1990's. This material includes the Goldsmith-Ferris Portfolio, a collection of 150 mounted photographs (possibly for an exhibition) that presents mostly Goldsmith's collaborative work with architect James Ferris, from the experimental projects in reinforced concrete in Rome to the Kitt Peak Solar Telescope of 1962. Also included are documents concerning Mies van der Rohe's Mansion House Square scheme as revived by architect Peter Carter (1982-84).
1931-1995
Personal Papers
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AP032.S1
Description:
This series contains chronologically-arranged papers, photographs and drawings concerning Goldsmith's life from about the time of his enrollment at the Armour Institute in Chicago, to the mid-1950s when he returned from Europe to America to join Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. These documents are records of Goldsmith's early influences, and his education and training as an architect at the Armour Institute (later the Illinois Institute of Technology) and at the University of Rome. The papers also concern his service as an structural engineer in the U.S. armed forces, work in the office of Mies van der Rohe, and travels in Europe in the early 1950's all of which could be also considered as part of his education. The documents in this series are interesting for the quantity of Goldsmith's student sketches and research notes, including lectures by and observations on Mies van der Rohe and Pier Luigi Nervi. Moreover, correspondence, notes and photographs reveal a variety of other important influences on the young Goldsmith, such as a pilgrimage to visit Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesan East, and letters to Buckminister Fuller. Of particular interest are the papers concerning Mies van der Rohe as teacher, mentor and friend to Goldsmith. The fonds contains various documents from office files, including Goldsmith's notations on projects like the Farnsworth House, and collections of period photographs and blueprints of Mies' buildings and furniture designs. Related documentation on Mies exists in various files throughout the fonds, especially in the Mies van der Rohe Centennial Project located in Series 3: Professional Activities - Teaching. The last section in this series, Papers and Correspondence, which consists of personal and business papers dating from the late 1950's to the mid-1990's. This material includes the Goldsmith-Ferris Portfolio, a collection of 150 mounted photographs (possibly for an exhibition) that presents mostly Goldsmith's collaborative work with architect James Ferris, from the experimental projects in reinforced concrete in Rome to the Kitt Peak Solar Telescope of 1962. Also included are documents concerning Mies van der Rohe's Mansion House Square scheme as revived by architect Peter Carter (1982-84).
Series 1
1931-1995
Series
AP032.S2
Description:
This series contains papers and drawings related to Goldsmith's career with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill from 1955-83, and also his later work undertaken after retirement from the firm. The documents include office communications and reports, publicity about SOM, extensive client and project files (which include blueprints of Burnham & Root and Holabird & Roche office buildings), and Goldsmith's documentation files on projects, architects, and a wide range of other topics, some of which have a lot of information (bridges, stadium architecture). The drawings of various SOM projects and other work by Goldsmith include some original sketches and design development drawings, as well as five models of bridge proposals. Many of Goldsmith's later bridge designs (often with T.Y. Lin) are well represented, as well as large-scale projects like Central Place Development in Brisbane, Australia (Peddle, Thorpe & Harvey, architects), and the Hangkang City project (Goldsmith with Mahoub Elnimeiri and Alexander Baumgarten, architects).
1947-1996
Professional Activities - Architecture
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AP032.S2
Description:
This series contains papers and drawings related to Goldsmith's career with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill from 1955-83, and also his later work undertaken after retirement from the firm. The documents include office communications and reports, publicity about SOM, extensive client and project files (which include blueprints of Burnham & Root and Holabird & Roche office buildings), and Goldsmith's documentation files on projects, architects, and a wide range of other topics, some of which have a lot of information (bridges, stadium architecture). The drawings of various SOM projects and other work by Goldsmith include some original sketches and design development drawings, as well as five models of bridge proposals. Many of Goldsmith's later bridge designs (often with T.Y. Lin) are well represented, as well as large-scale projects like Central Place Development in Brisbane, Australia (Peddle, Thorpe & Harvey, architects), and the Hangkang City project (Goldsmith with Mahoub Elnimeiri and Alexander Baumgarten, architects).
Series 2
1947-1996
Series
AP032.S3
Description:
This series consists of papers concerning Goldsmith's career as a professor of architecture at I.I.T. and a visiting teacher at Harvard University. The papers include many of his lectures and talks, as well as correspondence and papers related to his participation with committees studying education and his involvement with the Mies van der Rohe Centennial Project. Also included in this series are a collection of over 300 graduate student papers and master theses, for which many Goldsmith was advisor.
1950-1996
Professional Activities - Teaching
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AP032.S3
Description:
This series consists of papers concerning Goldsmith's career as a professor of architecture at I.I.T. and a visiting teacher at Harvard University. The papers include many of his lectures and talks, as well as correspondence and papers related to his participation with committees studying education and his involvement with the Mies van der Rohe Centennial Project. Also included in this series are a collection of over 300 graduate student papers and master theses, for which many Goldsmith was advisor.
Series 3
1950-1996