Bertrand Goldberg specialized in unique forms built from common materials and created some of the most iconic buildings in Chicago. After finishing high school, he traveled to Germany in to study architecture at the Bauhaus. While there he worked under director Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Goldberg appreciated Mies’ design principles but took them in a new direction when he returned to his hometown of Chicago to open his own firm in
His work combined Mid-Century Modern principles with his own ideas of modular, prefabricated and often curved forms not seen in Miesian buildings. Goldberg understood the social dynamics of a changing city. His most well-known buildings in Chicago sought to revitalize the city’s urban core. The curved plans and concrete sculptural forms of Marina City, River City and Hilliard Homes illustrate his ideas about vertical communities.
His early designs were highly personal and, especially in the residential work, attentive to individual spatial needs. Parallel to these interests was a serious and inventive investigation into materials and construction technologies. These two themes were to remain central to his career, although modified in his later work.
While his early commercial and industrial projects were noticed for their creative solutions to new problems, they were not easily adaptable to a larger scale at the time. By the end of the s Goldberg developed two large commissions, Astor Tower and Marina City, which was a central achievement of his career.
After Marina City, Goldberg’s interests were in larger social and political concerns, with progressive planning central to his projects. The Hilliard Homes were built in the mid’s as public housing and the office prepared many designs for mixed-use residential communities, only one of which, River City, was built in the s. His deep programmatic interests was evidenced by significant work in both education and healthcare, with numerous schools and hospitals designed and built in the three decades of work following Marina City. In almost all projects, i
Bertrand Goldberg was a creative architect who established a sizable architectural and engineering practice.
Bertrand Goldberg was born in Chicago in He grew up in Chicago and attended Harvard College in for two years before studying at the Bauhaus in Germany. While there, he worked briefly in the Berlin office of Mies van der Rohe.
He returned to Chicago in , and worked for the Keck brothers, and in , opened his own office.
During World War II, Goldberg worked for the government designing portable medical labs and gun crates. After the war, he formed a partnership with Leland Atwood, which lasted through the early s, after which he started his own firm of Bertrand Goldberg Associates.
Early in his career Goldberg focused on single family residences and industrial design work into the s. when his design proposals covered a broad spectrum including union halls, art centers, office buildings, and residential developments. In , Goldberg built Drexel Gardens on the south side of Chicago.
In , Goldberg started work on Marina City. This project, a major achievement in his career, was complete
Bertrand Goldberg was born in Chicago in He grew up in Chicago and attended Harvard College in for two years before studying at the Bauhaus in Germany. While there, he worked briefly in the Berlin office of Mies van der Rohe.
He returned to Chicago in , and worked for the Keck brothers, and in , opened his own office.
During World War II, Goldberg worked for the government designing portable medical labs and gun crates. After the war, he formed a partnership with Leland Atwood, which lasted through the early s, after which he started his own firm of Bertrand Goldberg Associates.
Early in his career Goldberg focused on single family residences and industrial design work into the s. when his design proposals covered a broad spectrum including union halls, art centers, office buildings, and residential developments. In , Goldberg built Drexel Gardens on the south side of Chicago.
In , Goldberg started work on Marina City. This project, a major achievement in his career, was completed in
Throughout the ’s and ’s, the office of Bertrand Goldberg Associates grew significantly – including in-house engineering and computer software development. Design work focused on numerous larg
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