The late architect Myron Goldfinger, in an undated photograph digitized by the Paul Rudolph Institute in collaboration with the Myron Goldfinger Estate.
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The Paul Rudolph Institute For Modern Architecture
07/22/2024
The Paul Rudolph Institute For Modern Architecture Announces Partnership with the Myron Goldfinger Estate to Digitize His Architectural Archive
Complete Collection of Drawings, Models and Photographs to be Digitized and Made Accessible to the Public
NEW YORK, NY (July 22, 2024) – The Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture (“PRIMA”) today announced a partnership with the Estate of Myron Goldfinger to digitize, index and publish the architect’s archive, most of which is unavailable online.
“The Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture represents the Rudolph Estate. Part of our mission is to preserve, protect and share his legacy to ensure it continues,” said Kelvin Dickinson, President of PRIMA. “Our collaboration with the Goldfinger Estate is a great example of a partnership to promote an equally important architect’s legacy. By working together, we will digitize the archive and make it available to the public.”
Materials to be digitized include original and copies of drawings, blueprints, renderings and other material of or related to architectural projects that Myron Goldfinger created during his lifetime; Photographs of sites, construction and finished architectural projects; books by Myron Goldfinger such as his 1969 Villages in the Sun: Mediterranean Community Architecture including material both published and unpublished; and physical items including presentation and study models. The scope and depth of these records reflect the richness and diversity of Goldfinger’s fifty year career and features over 100 built and unbuilt projects.
Myron’s widow June Goldfinger stated, “archives are for future architects to study and learn from. Like Rudolph, Myron’s work was committed to honest geometry based upon his study of the past. Our collaboration to catalog his work will allow people to understand and be immersed in his architecture.”
The Paul Rudolph Institute intends to mount an exhibit of Goldfinger’s work later this year, featuring material shown before with newer items discovered during the processing of the archives.
About the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture
The Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture is a New York City-based non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to educating the public about modern architecture and the need to preserve it. Through preservation and advocacy efforts, educational programs, public events and maintaining and developing an archive of written and graphic materials, the Institute promotes the legacy of modernist architects in a larger architectural and cultural context to interested students, journalists, scholars, and the general public.
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