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A new retrospective of Bruce Goff’s work at the Art Institute of Chicago provides prescient commentary on an architectural profession in flux
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The Architect’s Newspaper
Bruce Goff: Material WorldsArt Institute of ChicagoThrough March 29The most important aspects of the Art Institute of Chicago’s retrospective exhibition Bruce Goff: Material Worlds are not the buildings designed by the late architect (1904–1982), but the collection of mementos from his personal archive.
With over 200 works on display, the exhibition is fairly large, but a strict path of circulation guides you through a biography of Goff’s life: the geography, people, cultures, and artifacts that deeply and directly influenced his striking architectural style.
Goff is, perhaps, an obscure architect when compared to his mentor Frank Lloyd Wright and contemporary Mies van der Rohe.
The realia-based architecture exhibition is not necessarily new, although it has never been called as such.
Like prior exhibitions that have surveyed the discipline of architecture, this retrospective of Goff’s work holds significance for the commentary it offers on a profession currently in flux.