The Architect

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 1950s 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-1960’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 1980s. 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, investigations into construction technology involved use of concrete, as both interests in form and structure were resolved through use of this material.