Myron Goldsmith

Myron Goldsmith

Myron Goldsmith (1918-1996) was an American architect and designer. [1] He was a student of Mies van der Rohe and Pier Luigi Nervi before designing 40 projects at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill from 1955 to 1983.[1] His last 16 years at the firm he was a general partner in its Chicago office. His best known project is the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope building constructed in 1962 at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. It is visited by an estimated 100,000 people a year.[1]

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Background

Goldsmith was born in Chicago and graduated in 1939 from the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he studied under Mies, whose Chicago office he joined in 1946.[1] He worked there until 1953, when he received a Fulbright Grant to study under Nervi at the University of Rome.[1]

Career

His first major projects at Skidmore were two United Air Lines hangars at San Francisco International Airport, one of which used cantilevered steel girders to hold four DC-8 jetliners. He was a professor of architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology beginning in 1961. [1]

In his 1987 monograph he wrote that: "A building should be built with economy, efficiency, discipline and order." [1] At the time of his death, he was a member of a team organized by the institute to design a 115- to 120-story office, hotel and commercial structure in Seoul for the Hyundai Engineering and Construction Company. The project, known as "Hankang City," may end up as the world's tallest building.

Projects

  • McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope building (1962)
  • Oakland Alameda County Coliseum (1966)
  • Republic newspaper plant (1971) in Columbus, Indiana
  • Ruck-a-Chucky Bridge (unbuilt) planned to cross the American River in Auburn, California northeast of Sacramento

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g David W. Dunlap Myron Goldsmith obituary July 17, 1996 New York Times

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