On the one hand, this is Johansen’s most Corbusian building … . On the other hand, it signaled Johansen’s newfound desire to mimic the provisional and seemingly happenstance look of engineered objects. He admired the unselfconscious authenticity of things like rocket launch platforms and offshore oilrigs, circuit boards, and appliances. The exaggerated, irregular character of the Goddard design was intended to be “like the rear, not the tidy front, of a Xerox copier” Excerpt from Michael Abrahamson’s article in: SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey. Catalog DAM + Wüstenrot Foundation, Zurich (Park Books) 2017

Entrance ramps removed during renovation in 2009. In use.