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 Oklahoma and …

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 career, Goff’s oeuvre …

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 to Oklahoma in …

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 eclectic came …

Dec 22, 2025 · Bruce Goff was both an architectural insider and outsider; his highly original buildings never fit comfortably into any movement or style. In a new exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago will …

A child prodigy, Bruce Goff built his first house at age 14. He never received an architecture degree, yet he became chair of the architecture department at the University of Oklahoma and was responsible …

Aug 21, 2024 · American architect Bruce Goff is known for his out-of-this-world, eclectic, modernist homes. nearly 500 of them span across the mid-west, of which only a handful remain.

Goff designed the Tulsa Club, downtown Tulsa's historic landmark, in 1927. In 1934 Goff moved to Chicago and began teaching part-time at the Academy of Fine Arts, working for the manufacturer of …