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Malinda Blank tells me that, in the same way people use the phrase, “musician’s musician,” Bruce Goff is an “architect’s architect.” And as the Director of the Tulsa Foundation for Architecture (TFA), she would know. “I think that anybody who is passionate about this industry and this art form, they find Goff and they fall in love with him.”
“I really think it’s the creativity that he brought; that’s what really attracts people,” Blank tells me, leading me into TFA’s basement archive, where she’s laid out all of the Bruce Goff materials that the Foundation holds. “He feels like a springboard for a lot of other people, a lot of other architects. He’s a fascinating person and his work’s beautiful. Tulsa should be proud that he’s a part of our story and history.”
Here's a selection of the digitized photos in the Goff collection from TFA:
The Spotlight Theater (Exterior):
From TFA: Riverside Studio, locally known as Spotlight Theater, was originally designed in the 1920s by Bruce Goff for Patti Adams Shriner, a Tulsa musician and teacher.