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It includes the Bauhaus, Mid-Century Modern, International style, Brutalism, and other regional expressions. It does not include pre-modernist or proto-modernist movements (that may otherwise be considered "modern") such as expressionist architecture , Art Nouveau , Art Deco , Jugendstil , and the Vienna Secession styles in the United States.
This category is intended for articles concerning architects, styles and buildings of the 20th century modernist architecture (i.e. high modernism in architecture). It includes the Bauhaus, Mid-Century Modern, International style, Brutalism, and other regional expressions.
By the time the company closed in the mid-1980s George Nelson Associates, Inc. had worked with most of the Fortune 500 companies. George Nelson's architectural projects included what he dubbed "The Colombian Garden of Health", a 200-bed tertiary care hospital in Bogota, Colombia, commissioned by the Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota.
1950s-style credenza 15th- or 16th-century Italian credenza Modern built-in or fitted credenza. A credenza is a dining room sideboard or display cabinet, [1] [2] usually made of burnished and polished wood and decorated with marquetry. The top would often be made of marble, or another decorative liquid- and heat-resistant stone.
Mid-century modern (MCM) is a movement in interior design, product design, graphic design, architecture and urban development that was present in all the world, but more popular in North America, Brazil and Europe from roughly 1945 to 1970 during the United States's post-World War II period.
Prairie School is a late 19th and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves , windows grouped in horizontal bands, integration with the landscape, solid construction, craftsmanship, and discipline in the ...
Classic Googie sign at Warren, Ohio drive-in. Googie's beginnings are with the Streamline Moderne architecture of the 1930s. [16] Alan Hess, one of the most knowledgeable writers on the subject, writes in Googie: Ultra Modern Road Side Architecture that mobility in Los Angeles during the 1930s was characterized by the initial influx of the automobile and the service industry that evolved to ...