Professional Activities - Architecture

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• Fonds: Myron Goldsmith fonds, 1933-1996
•    Series: Professional Activities - Architecture, 1947-1996

People

• Myron Goldsmith (creator)
• Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

Title

Professional Activities - Architecture

Dates of creation

1947-1996

Level of archival description

Series 2

Extent and Medium

• 882 reprographic copies
• 604 files of textual records
• 361 drawings
• 164 photographs
• 41 files of photographic material
• 12 textual records
• 5 models
• 5 catalogues
• 4 reports
• 3 notebooks
• 3 brochures
• 2 ring binders
• 1 file of drawings and textual records
• 1 file of presentation drawings
• 1 audiocassette
• 1 videocassette
• 1 print
• 0,08 l.m. of photographic material

Scope and Content

This series contains papers and drawings related to Goldsmith's career with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill from 1955-83, and also his later work undertaken after retirement from the firm. The documents include office communications and reports, publicity about SOM, extensive client and project files (which include blueprints of Burnham & Root and Holabird & Roche office buildings), and Goldsmith's documentation files on projects, architects, and a wide range of other topics, some of which have a lot of information (bridges, stadium architecture). The drawings of various SOM projects and other work by Goldsmith include some original sketches and design development drawings, as well as five models of bridge proposals. Many of Goldsmith's later bridge designs (often with T.Y. Lin) are well represented, as well as large-scale projects like Central Place Development in Brisbane, Australia (Peddle, Thorpe & Harvey, architects), and the Hangkang City project (Goldsmith with Mahoub Elnimeiri and Alexander Baumgarten, architects).

Reference Number

AP032.S2

Arrangement

This series has been arranged into three subseries, each one documenting a different location or phase of Goldsmith's work with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.