Bruce Alonzo Goff (June 8, 1904 – August 4, 1982) was an American architect, distinguished by his organic, eclectic, and often flamboyant designs for houses and other buildings in …

Bruce Goff (1904–1982) was one of the most inventive and iconoclastic architects of the 20h century. Born in Kansas, he spent most of his life practicing in Oklahoma, Chicago, and Texas.

Bruce Goff is regarded as a major visionary architect. His imaginative designs are an extension of precepts of organic architecture developed by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Jun 17, 2025 · In all, Goff created more than 500 designs, with almost 160 of them built. From aesthetic experiments as an apprentice to the mature works at the end his decades-long …

Dec 22, 2025 · Goff’s career starts with the beginning of his teenage apprenticeship at age 12 and runs up to his death in 1982 – an extraordinary span of 20th century architectural history.

Goff practiced and taught in Chicago during the 1930s and served in a U.S. Navy construction battalion in Alaska during World War II. He practiced briefly in San Francisco before returning …

Bruce Goff (June 8, 1904 – August 4, 1982) was a prolific self-taught American architect with a very distinct design style that evolved constantly. Goff’s style which can be described as …

Dec 20, 2025 · With more than 200 archival works, an exhibition in Chicago honors Bruce Goff, the Frank Lloyd Wright protégé whose eccentric midcentury houses broke free of modernist …

Dec 18, 2025 · Bruce Goff, known for 'wildly imaginative' home designs, subject of new Art Institute show By Dennis Rodkin Reprints Credit: MLS Technology Inc.

5 days ago · The Art Institute of Chicago has opened Bruce Goff: Material Worlds, marking the first major exhibition of architect Bruce Goff’s work in three decades. Drawn primarily from the …