What designers can learn about creativity from an oddball architecture school in 1950s Oklahoma

Bruce Goff taught his students to trade modernism for a more expressive approach to architecture. His lessons live on today.

After World War II, architecture underwent a transformation. The built environment had been revamped by the ascension of modernism; classical columns and Beaux Arts beauty made way for inventive machine-age Bauhaus visions. The crisp, contemporary style of modernist homes and glass-clad skyscrapers were a revelation.