Goody, Clancy & Associates, Inc

Hamilton Goody Architects (Hamilton, Goody, Clancy, or Marvin E. Goody with John M. Clancy, or Goody, Clancy & Associates, Inc.) is a firm founded in the 1950s by MIT faculty members Marvin Goody and Richard Hamilton. It focused on building materials research, and exploration of modular housing and innovative construction systems, to improve housing design, livability, and affordability. This culminated in the design of the Monsanto House of the Future, placed on exhibit at Disneyland for 20 years.

1960s

Focus on affordable housing continues, including award winning elderly housing. Early inters in energy conservation through research-based work in solar building design sets a direction that expands in later years. Project types expand to include institutional, educational, residential work and award-winning housing for the elderly.

1970s

Firm grows to staff of 60. The firm continues emphasis on mixed-income housing, energy-conserving design. The landmark Massachusetts State Transportation Building is begun, initiates commitment to urban revitalization, reflected by portfolio of urban office buildings, transit facilities, and university buildings. Projects now include research laboratories.

1980s

Firm expands mixed-income housing involvement with nationally recognized projects like Tent City, and planning and design for Harbor Point, the mixed-income housing that ultimately leads to the HOPE VI program. Academic clients and mixed-income housing become primary markets. Project mix includes urban housing, labs, public buildings and urban design. The firm expands focus to include planning and historic preservation while growing academic and public building design to explore the relationship between place-making and creating community.

1990s

Geographic reach expands across the country. Staff size grows to over 100, and includes new principals in architecture, planning and urban design. National reputation grows for housing and college/university building design that fosters sense of community. The firm's Tent City mixed-income housing development receives the United Nations World Habitat Award. Preservation practice expands significantly. There is greater emphasis on sustainable design as part of the firm's approach, including new developments in integrating sustainability and preservation.

2000s

Innovative integration of sustainability is exemplified with the preservation of historic Trinity Church. The firm wins national awards for urban revitalization, creation and design of mixed-income communities, academic, research and civic buildings in over a dozen states, including the new Federal Courthouse Annex in Wheeling, West Virginia. Academic clients include top universities such as Harvard, MIT, Dartmouth, Washington University in St. Louis, The University of Chicago, University of Michigan and more than 30 others. Planning/urban design practice champions new concepts of Density, pushes exploration of the role of public spaces to spark and support urban life. The firm coauthors a new book on Housing and publishes its monograph (2006). Firm's practice diversifies to include more private-sector developer work, with projects in Kansas City, Louisville, Austin, Oklahoma City and Boston.

Today

Goody Clancy is a 100-person firm of architects, preservationists, planners and urban designers. Based in Boston, they specialize in design and planning for governmental and institutional clients, including courthouses, academic facilities, research buildings, and campus master plans. They balance skill and vision in designing new buildings for campuses or dense urban sites, as well as the renovation and preservation of existing buildings. They often find new uses for treasured places and infuse new vigor into floundering districts.

Since 1955, Goody Clancy has led the profession nationally and internationally in developing forward-thinking designs that suit the time, setting and purpose for which they have been created. As architects, they seek to create buildings and places of beauty, quality and integrity that make a difference in the way people live, work, learn and enjoy each other. As planners, they seek to create districts and campuses that support and foster community, diversity, and livable, vibrant spaces for all. As preservationists, they apply their knowledge of historic architecture and standards to steward treasured landmarks into the future.

At the core of the firm's mission is the deep conviction that each design should reflect, inspire, and exemplify civic and social responsibility-and clearly articulate the meaning and vision each client has defined for their project. The 45 professionals at Goody Clancy who volunteered to pursue - and have successfully achieved - LEED accreditation, reflect the firm's commitment to sustainable design and its belief that it can truly impact the future of our environment. We currently have two major projects that are LEED Silver and Gold certified. The Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex at MIT has received Silver rating, while House 5 of the Village at 115 student residence complex at Case Western Reserve University has received Gold status. Five other projects currently in design or construction are targeted for certification at LEED Silver or better.

Its principals and staff bring together the voices of stakeholders, and in listening to all, synthesize design solutions that are invariably unique. Goody Clancy's work transcends "signature" design, exploring truly innovative ways to spark interaction, enrich academic and urban contexts, and foster collaboration and community. Goody Clancy designs and plans more than just buildings; they create places that weave together past, present and future.

Projects

*McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
*John W. McCormack Federal Building, Boston, MA
*South Campus Residence Halls and Dining Facility, The University of Chicago
*H.H. Richardson's Trinity Church, Boston, MA
*Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex, MIT
*Federal Courthouse Annex, Wheeling, West Virginia
*Whittemore Hall, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
*Burton Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Purdue University
*Barker Center for the Humanities, Harvard University
*David Koch Biology Building, MIT
*Dorchester District Courthouse, Dorchester, MA
*Bulfinch's Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA
*Old State House, Boston, MA
*Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA
*Austin Hall, Harvard University Law School
*Harbor Point, Boston
*Tent City, Boston, MA
*Massachusetts State Transportation Building, Boston
*Heritage Gardens, 100 units in Winthrop, MA
*Heaton Court in Stockbridge, MA
*DeCordova Museum Studios (1962-64)
*Center for the Visual Arts at MIT (1962-64)
*Monsanto House of the Future

Awards

*AIA National Award for the Strategic Framework for North Allston
*2005 AIA Merit Award for Rawls Hall at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University
*2004 Renovated Lab of the Year award for the Dreyfus Chemistry Labs
*2004 CNU Charter Award for the Oak Hill mixed income housing community in Pittsburgh.
*United Nations World Habitat Award

Principals

*Joan E. Goody, FAIA
*John Clancy, FAIA 1930-2004
*Jean Carroon, AIA
*David Dixon, FAIA
*Geoffrey Wooding, AIA, LEED
*David Spillane, AICP, RIBA
*Roger N. Goldstein, FAIA
*Robert J. Pelletier, AIA
*Rob Chandler, AIA

External links

* [http://www.goodyclancy.com Goody Clancy]
* [http://www.architects.org Boston Society of Architects]