The Art Institute of Chicago is going big on Bruce Goff (1904–82), the self-taught architect who transformed several midwestern skylines with his eye-catching designs (20 December–29 March 2026). This exhibition comprises some 200 works by Goff, including architectural drawings and models and rarely seen abstract paintings, which give a sense of his eclecticism and ambition. In the face of prevailing modernist trends, Goff embraced eccentricity and site-specificity, drawing on Native American art, science fiction and music from South East Asia to inform his quirky but immaculately conceived designs. In addition to the main exhibition, the museum is displaying 35 Japanese prints from Goff’s collection; photographs of the cylindrical four-storey Al Struckus House in Woodland Hills, California, Goff’s last design to be built; and a series of large-scale drawings by New Affiliates inspired by three of Goff’s houses.
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