Myron Goldsmith (September 15, 1918 – July 15, 1996) was an American architect and designer.[1] He was a student ofMies van der Rohe andPier Luigi Nervi before designing 40 projects atSkidmore, Owings & Merrill from 1955 to 1983.[1] His last 16 years at the firm he was a general partner in its Chicago office. His best known project is theMcMath–Pierce solar telescope building constructed in 1962 at theKitt Peak National Observatory inArizona. It is visited by an estimated 100,000 people a year.[1]
Goldsmith was born inChicago and graduated in 1939 from theIllinois Institute of Technology, where he studied under Mies, whose Chicago office he joined in 1946.[1] He worked there until 1953, when he received aFulbright grant to study under Nervi at theUniversity of Rome.[1]
His first major projects at Skidmore were twoUnited Airlineshangars atSan Francisco International Airport, one of which usedcantilevered steelgirders to hold fourDC-8 jetliners. He was a professor of architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology beginning in 1961.[1]
In his 1987monograph he wrote that: "A building should be built with economy, efficiency, discipline and order."[1] At the time of his death, he was a member of a team organized by the institute to design a 120-story office, hotel and commercial structure in Seoul for the Hyundai Engineering and Construction Company. The project, known as "Hankang City," would have been one of the world's tallest buildings at 1,699.48 feet; but the project was canceled and the building was never built.[2]
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