Joan Edelman Goody (December 1, 1935 – 8 September 2009) was an American
architect based in
Boston, Massachusetts, where she served on the faculty of the Mayor's Institute for City Design, and earlier as chair of the Boston Civic Design Commission.[1] She was known for her influence in the latter part of the 20th and early 21st century on Boston modern architecture and
historic preservation.
She was also the author of several books on architecture, including an early work on the emerging modern style in Boston, New Architecture in Boston.[2]
Ms. Goody attended
Cornell University. She spent her junior year studying in
Paris, France and she went to
Granada, Spain on Spring break in 1955 where she developed an immediate interest in architecture after seeing and visiting the
Alhambra. She graduated
Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University in 1956. She went on to study and receive a Masters Degree in architecture and design at the
Harvard Graduate School of Design.[4]
Career
She married Marvin Goody, an MIT professor and architect in Boston and joined his firm, becoming a partner in 1968. Joan Goody taught architectural design at Harvard in the 1970s.[4]
Personal life
Joan Edelman married Marvin Goody, a fellow architect, in 1960. She remained married to him until his death in 1980.[4]
In 1984, she married Peter Davison, a poet and editor, and remained married to him until his death in 2004.[4]
restoration of
Trinity Church at
Copley Square in Boston, Massachusetts, including the creation of a major gathering area in a former cramped basement
Harbor Point Apartments, where she transformed a dismal public housing project into a mixed-income neighborhood on the
Columbia Point peninsula in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts
a federal courthouse in
Wheeling, West Virginia, where she mixed modern with traditional motifs