Bertrand goldberg

Bertrand Goldberg’s Hilliard Homes opened as a model community in 1966. It still is today.

These examples of Brutalist architecture share a tendency towards the curve, combining organic outlines with manmade materials in unexpected ways.

Marina City Towers, Chicago by Bertrand Goldberg in 1959-64

The luxury end of Goldberg's wonderful sequence of curvaceous, petal-planned apartment blocks around Chicago, the best-known of which is Marina City. Goldberg claimed that the exteriors were an uncontrollable consequence of the plans, but I suspect he may also have quite liked the way they looked... I certainly do.

This post is sponsored by Chase – a strong supporter of the Global Cities Initiative, a program that helps foster local economic development. Learn more here. I’ve lived in the Chicago area my entire life, and Oak Park is just fifteen minutes West of downtown by car or train (the ‘L’). I know the city pretty well, but sometimes it’s nice to see it from a different perspective. Like a scary open body of water perspective. In all fairness, it’s only scary because I can’t swim and I’m afraid of…

The clover-shaped tower of Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital made a clear break away from the grid formation favoured in Modernist architecture.

Over 60 prominent architects, including Frank Gehry and Jeanne Gang, signed a letter asking Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to grant Bertrand Goldberg‘s...

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