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
Series
Publications and Exhibitions
AP032.S4
Description:
This series contains material on publications and exhibitions concerning Goldsmith work and career. Papers and photographs record the creation of the book Myron Goldsmith: Buildings and Concepts, edited by Swiss architect Werner Blaser and published by Rizzoli Publications in 1987. The updating of Goldsmith's theoretical views are apparent in the manuscript drafts and revisions of his two essays for the book - "The Effects of Scale," reworked from his I.I.T. master's thesis, and the newly composed "Structural Architecture." This series also contains documents concerning retrospective exhibitions on Goldsmith originating at Harvard University (1982), and at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (1991). This material includes papers, correspondence, exhibition panels and wall text panels. The inclusion of periodicals and clippings on the architect's work, and the work of his students, supply a good bibliographic background on the architect.
1956-1991
Publications and Exhibitions
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AP032.S4
Description:
This series contains material on publications and exhibitions concerning Goldsmith work and career. Papers and photographs record the creation of the book Myron Goldsmith: Buildings and Concepts, edited by Swiss architect Werner Blaser and published by Rizzoli Publications in 1987. The updating of Goldsmith's theoretical views are apparent in the manuscript drafts and revisions of his two essays for the book - "The Effects of Scale," reworked from his I.I.T. master's thesis, and the newly composed "Structural Architecture." This series also contains documents concerning retrospective exhibitions on Goldsmith originating at Harvard University (1982), and at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (1991). This material includes papers, correspondence, exhibition panels and wall text panels. The inclusion of periodicals and clippings on the architect's work, and the work of his students, supply a good bibliographic background on the architect.
Series 4
1956-1991
Series
Photograph Collections
AP032.S5
Description:
This series includes personal photographs and slides of friends and travels dating from the 1940s to the 1990s, as well as a large collection of colour slide images of architecture (including Goldsmith-designed buildings) and urban scenes used by Goldsmith to illustrate his lectures and talks.
1949-1985
Photograph Collections
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AP032.S5
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This series includes personal photographs and slides of friends and travels dating from the 1940s to the 1990s, as well as a large collection of colour slide images of architecture (including Goldsmith-designed buildings) and urban scenes used by Goldsmith to illustrate his lectures and talks.
Series 5
1949-1985
Series
AP032.S6
Description:
This series contains miscellaneous material collected by Goldsmith, including architectural, engineering and general interest periodicals, and files of newspaper clippings on current event topics.
1950-1990
Miscellaneous Published Materials
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AP032.S6
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This series contains miscellaneous material collected by Goldsmith, including architectural, engineering and general interest periodicals, and files of newspaper clippings on current event topics.
Series 6
1950-1990
Sub-series
Early Papers and Drawings
AP032.S1.SS1
Description:
This sub-series documents Goldsmith’s education and early career from 1931 – 1967.
1931-1967
Early Papers and Drawings
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AP032.S1.SS1
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This sub-series documents Goldsmith’s education and early career from 1931 – 1967.
Sub-series 1
1931-1967
Sub-series
Early Drawings by Goldsmith
AP032.S1.SS1.D3
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This sub-series documents sketches and drawings completed during Goldsmith’s education and early career, from 1938 to 1953. The sub-series includes sketches completed while Goldsmith studied under Mies van der Rohe at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago (as of 2023 known as the Illinois Institute of Technology) in the late-1930s as well as Goldsmith’s notes and sketches from his trips to Taliesin East, Wisconsin, and Williamsburg, Virginia in the early-1940s. Further, the sub-series contains sketches and drawings for various buildings, infrastructure, and furniture from circa 1942-1943, in addition to sketches for the Stuart S. Borovay Residence and an unbuilt project dating from 1942 – 1953.
1938-1953
Early Drawings by Goldsmith
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AP032.S1.SS1.D3
Description:
This sub-series documents sketches and drawings completed during Goldsmith’s education and early career, from 1938 to 1953. The sub-series includes sketches completed while Goldsmith studied under Mies van der Rohe at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago (as of 2023 known as the Illinois Institute of Technology) in the late-1930s as well as Goldsmith’s notes and sketches from his trips to Taliesin East, Wisconsin, and Williamsburg, Virginia in the early-1940s. Further, the sub-series contains sketches and drawings for various buildings, infrastructure, and furniture from circa 1942-1943, in addition to sketches for the Stuart S. Borovay Residence and an unbuilt project dating from 1942 – 1953.
File 3
1938-1953
Sub-series
U.S. Military Service
AP032.S1.SS1.D4
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This sub-series documents Goldsmith's training and architectural work with the US military from 1941 – 1946. It includes training and technical records, such as student notes, manuals, and technical materials, as well as drawings for various US military buildings.
1941-1946
U.S. Military Service
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AP032.S1.SS1.D4
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This sub-series documents Goldsmith's training and architectural work with the US military from 1941 – 1946. It includes training and technical records, such as student notes, manuals, and technical materials, as well as drawings for various US military buildings.
File 4
1941-1946
Sub-series
AP032.S1.SS2
Description:
This sub-series consists of Goldsmith’s collection of materials connected to the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, which includes photographs and drawings documenting Mies van der Rohe’s work along with the work of other architects. It also contains textual records, photographs, and drawings related to Goldsmith’s studies under Mies van der Rohe (including Goldsmith’s Master’s thesis) and their later working relationship.
1939-1963
Studies and Work with Mies van der Rohe
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AP032.S1.SS2
Description:
This sub-series consists of Goldsmith’s collection of materials connected to the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, which includes photographs and drawings documenting Mies van der Rohe’s work along with the work of other architects. It also contains textual records, photographs, and drawings related to Goldsmith’s studies under Mies van der Rohe (including Goldsmith’s Master’s thesis) and their later working relationship.
Sub-series 2
1939-1963
photographs
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2 File
ARCH254781
circa 1947-2002
photographs
Quantity:
2 File
circa 1947-2002