It’s a curious structure that almost looks like someone took extreme creative license in solving a puzzle. Take a different look, and it might resemble a tiny cityscape with multiple disparate buildings crammed into one odd-shaped block on a hillside, or a pop-art favela or an architectural glacier dumping out onto Classen Circle. But the […]
Bruce Goff
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Renegade architect
Renegade: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture at Bizzell Sept. 22-July 29, 2019 Bizzell Memorial Library University of Oklahoma 401 W. Brooks St., Norman renegades.libraries.ou.edu Free The Bavinger House in Norman was one of 10 buildings designed by architect Bruce Goff to be designated on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, but […]
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Okie Mod Squad celebrates our city’s futuristic history with its blowout modernism weekend
“He was the mastermind genius of everything that is cool in Oklahoma,” Sadler said.
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R.I.P., The Bavinger House: 1955-2011
Local architecture nerds decry the move as a travesty; the Bavinger House Conservancy sees it as “an opportunity for everyone to own a part of history,” per its website, “for this holiday season.” It’s another strange chapter in the home’s storied history. Designed by University of Oklahoma College of Architecture then-chairman Bruce Goff, the abstract […]
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R.I.P., The Bavinger House: 1955-2011
Local architecture nerds decry the move as a travesty; the Bavinger House Conservancy sees it as “an opportunity for everyone to own a part of history,” per its website, “for this holiday season.” It’s another strange chapter in the home’s storied history. Designed by University of Oklahoma College of Architecture then-chairman Bruce Goff, the abstract […]
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Mod-ified
The couple is part of a growing number of MCM — mid-century modern — enthusiasts who can’t get enough of the sleek design and creativity of modern architecture marked by the time period of the 1940s through the 1960s. Thanks to “Mad Men,” the hit television drama about advertising executives on Madison Avenue in New […]
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Tearin’ down the house?
That’s because reports of gunfire, helicopters and a collapsed roof surfaced regarding the storied spiral-shaped house. The fate of the home designed by Bruce Goff, the eccentric former chairman of the University of Oklahoma College of Architecture, was as clear as the muddy shores of Lake Thunderbird. Renowned as one of Goff’s most famous buildings, […]