Joan E. Goody was a leading Boston

Boston

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, and well-known American architect

Architect

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 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. Goody was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a principal of Goody, Clancy & Associates, Inc

Goody, Clancy & Associates, Inc

Hamilton Goody Architects is a firm founded in the 1950s by MIT faculty members Marvin Goody and Richard Hamilton...

of Boston.

Publications

• New Architecture in Boston MIT Press; 1965
• 'Essays on social housing', Progressive Architecture 7 (1984), p. 82-87
• 'Do you see new directions?', Architecture: the AIA journal 5 (1985), p. 240-251, 312-320