Joan Edelman Goody (December 1, 1935 – 8 September 2009) was an American architect based in Boston, Massachusetts, where she served on the faculty of the Mayor's Institute for City Design, and earlier as chair of the Boston Civic Design Commission.
[1] She was known for her influence in the latter part of the 20th and early 21st century on Boston modern architecture and historic preservation.
She spent her junior year studying in Paris, France and she went to Granada, Spain on Spring break in 1955 where she developed an immediate interest in architecture after seeing and visiting the Alhambra.
[4] She married Marvin Goody, an MIT professor and architect in Boston and joined his firm, becoming a partner in 1968.
[4] Joan Edelman married Marvin Goody, a fellow architect, in 1960.