Goody, Clancy & Associates, Inc
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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.
, 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.
. 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.
. Academic clients include top universities such as Harvard
, MIT
, Dartmouth
, Washington University in St. Louis
, The University of Chicago
, the University of Michigan
and more than 30 others. The firm coauthors a new book on housing and publishes its monograph (2006) {About Place: Goody Clancy's Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Edzioni Press}. The firm's practice diversifies to include more private-sector developer work, with projects in Kansas City
, Louisville
, Austin
, Oklahoma City
and Boston
.
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
Monsanto House of the Future
The Monsanto House of the Future was an attraction at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, USA, from 1957 to 1967.-History:...
, placed on exhibit at Disneyland for 20 years.
1960s
Focus on affordable housing continues, including award-winning elderly housing. Early interest 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. Heaton Court housing for the elderly (Stockbridge, MA) wins firm's first national AIA design award.1970s
Firm staff grows to 60. Continued emphasis on mixed-income housing and energy-conserving design. Construction of the landmark Massachusetts State Transportation Building is begun, initiates commitment to urban revitalization which is 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 CityTent City
A tent city is a temporary housing facility made using tents. Informal tent cities may be set up without authorization by homeless people or protesters. As well, state governments or military organizations set up tent cities to house refugees, evacuees, or soldiers...
, and planning and design for Harbor Point
Columbia Point (Boston)
Columbia Point, later referred to as Harbor Point, in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts sits on a peninsula jutting out from the mainland of eastern Dorchester into the bay.-History:...
, 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 AwardWorld Habitat Awards
The World Habitat Awards were established in 1985 by the Building and Social Housing Foundation as part of its contribution to the United Nations' International Year of Shelter for the Homeless in 1987....
. 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
The firm has won 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 VirginiaWheeling, West Virginia
Wheeling is a city in Ohio and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia; it is the county seat of Ohio County. Wheeling is the principal city of the Wheeling Metropolitan Statistical Area...
. Academic clients include top universities such as Harvard
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
, Dartmouth
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
, Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations...
, The University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
, the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
and more than 30 others. The firm coauthors a new book on housing and publishes its monograph (2006) {About Place: Goody Clancy's Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Edzioni Press}. The firm's practice diversifies to include more private-sector developer work, with projects in Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
, Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
, Austin
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
, Oklahoma City
Oklahoma city
Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.Oklahoma City may also refer to:*Oklahoma City metropolitan area*Downtown Oklahoma City*Uptown Oklahoma City*Oklahoma City bombing*Oklahoma City National Memorial...
and Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
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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.Projects
- Global Heritage Hall, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
- Rafik B. Hariri Building, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
- John W. McCormack Federal Building, Boston, MA
- South Campus Residence Halls and Dining Facility, The University of Chicago
- Mosher Jordan Hall and Hill Neighborhood Dining Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Tuck Living and Learning Center, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
- Trumbull College, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- Jean Yawkey Student Recreation Center, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
- H.H. Richardson's Trinity Church, Boston, MA
- Village at 115, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, MA
- Brain and Cognitive Sciences Complex, MIT, Cambridge, MA
- Federal Courthouse Annex, Wheeling, WV
- Whittemore Hall, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
- Burton Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
- Barker Center for the Humanities, Harvard University
- Smith Academic Technology Center, Bentley University, Waltham, MA
- David Koch Biology Building, MIT, Cambridge, MA
- 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, Cambridge, MA
- Harbor Point, Boston, MA
- Tent City, Boston, MA
- Massachusetts State Transportation Building, Boston, MA
- 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. GoodyJoan E. GoodyJoan E. Goody was a leading Boston, and well-known American architect known for her influence in the latter part of the 20th and early 21st century on Boston modern architecture and historic preservation...
, FAIA 1935-2009 - John Clancy, FAIA 1930-2004
- Geoffrey WoodingGeoffrey WoodingGeoffrey Wooding was a Boston architect who mainly designed mixed income housing and college dormitories. He was also one of the authors of Building Type Basics for Housing a book documenting good housing design and conventions...
, AIA, LEED 1954-2010 - Jean Carroon, FAIA, LEED
- David Dixon, FAIA
- David Spillane, AICP, RIBA
- Roger N. Goldstein, FAIA, LEED
- Robert J. Pelletier, AIA (ret.)
- Rob Chandler, AIA, LEED
- Lisa Howe, LEED