Gift
of
Dorothy
S.
Goodman
Charles
M.
Goodman
Archive
Architectural
historian
Richard
Guy
Wilson
has
written
that
architect
Charles
M.
Goodman
was
“A
figure
of
international
stature”
whose
“impact
can
scarcely
be
measured”
and
whose
designs
“formed
the
basis
of
the
generic
Modern
American
house
and
school,
widely
imitated
in
every
part
of
the
country.”
Moreover,
Goodman
believed
that
“modern
technology
and
materials
gave
the
architect
a
new
responsibility.
For
him,
good
design
could
influence
how
people
live
and
how
they
relate
to
Nature
.
.
.
The
result
was
a
body
of
architecture
of
great
distinction
that
captured
Americans’
imagination
for
many
years.”
Goodman
also
was
a
consummate
architectural
renderer
who
guided
an
office
which
produced
thousands
of
drawings,
many
of
them
perspective
renderings
of
the
highest
quality,
drawings
which
were
widely
published
and
exerted
their
own
influence
on
architectural
graphic
style
in
the
Post-war
period.
His
archive
is
a
treasure
trove
of
his
buildings,
his
drawings,
and
the
post-war
American
Dream.
Prior
to
World
War
II,
Goodman
was
a
leading
designer
of
government
buildings,
including
the
Federal
Building
at
the
New
York
World’s
Fair,
Federal
Post
Office
buildings
in
many
locations,
and
the
Terminal
Building
at
Washington’s
National
Airport.
In
the
post-war
period
he
emerged
as
one
of
the
most
successful,
respected,
influential,
and
widely
published
Modernist
designers
in
the
nation.
He
did
much
to
define
the
form
of
the
American
house
in
the
1950s
and
1960s,
especially
through
his
Alcoa
Research
Houses
and
work
done
for
Life
Magazine
and
National
Homes,
which
erected
more
than
100,000
houses
according
to
his
designs.
His
Hollin
Hills
housing
development
in
Alexandria,
Virginia,
done
in
collaboration
with
the
landscape
architect
Dan
Kiley,
has
been
studied
as
a
model
of
its
type
for
almost
five
decades.
His
clients
included
many
notable
figures:
Martin
Agronsky,
Eric
Sevareid,
Philip
and
Katherine
Graham,
Carlisle
Humelsline,
and
Bob
Straus.
He
was
at
the
forefront
of
experimentation
in
new
building
technologies
and
materials,
including
pre-fabricated
and
precast
construction
and
the
use
of
aluminum.
A
wide
range
of
building
types
is
represented
in
the
Goodman
archive,
expressive
of
the
postwar
building
boom
in
the
United
States:
shopping
and
commercial
centers,
service
stations,
showrooms,
medical
parks,
motels,
club,school
and
university
buildings,
churches,
buildings
for
the
military,
the
U.S.
Legation
in
Iceland,
and
the
Roosevelt
Memorial
Competition,
and
the
planned
community
of
Reston,
Virginia.
The
Charles
M.
Goodman
Archive
is
the
gift
of
his
widow,
Dorothy
S.
Goodman,
and
includes
more
than
7,000
original
drawings
and
renderings
representing
more
than
700
projects
and
commissions,
dating
from
the
1930s
through
the
1980s.
