2009 Ratensky Lecture Honoring Joan Goody FAIA

Joan Goody is recognized by the Ratensky Lecture for a lifetime commitment to housing and community design.

She graduated from Cornell in 1956 and then received her Master of Architecture from Harvard.

In 1960 she married Marvin Goody and went to work for his firm, Goody Clancy & Associates and became a partner in 1968.

During a period of 4 decades she created a remarkable body of work in housing and community design, paying special attention to the creation of livable spaces and neighborhoods.

Her large scale developments contained mixed income residents and a variety of building types that created neighborhoods where people wanted to live and raise their children, shop and play.

David Dixon, FAIA, Joan Goody's long-term partner and the Principal-in-Charge of Planning and Urban Design at Goody, Clancy & Associates, will give the 2009 Ratensky Lecture in her honor.

He is the 2007 recipient of the AIA Thomas Jefferson Award and co-author of the new book "Urban Design for an Urban Century."

As an urban designer, he writes and speaks frequently on revitalizing neighborhoods and his work extends to creating regional smart-growth guidelines for small and large cities.

He recently completed the just-accepted master plan for post-Katrina New Orleans.

The annual Ratensky Lecture was initiated by the AIA New York Chapter in honor of Samuel Ratensky (1910-1972), an architect and housing official who was responsible for major housing initiatives in the city from 1946 to 1972, and who served as a mentor to the many architects who worked in his programs.