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Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs (lit.'Decorative Arts'), [ 1 ] is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), [ 2 ] and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s. Through styling and design of the exterior and ...
The Roaring Twenties, sometimes stylized as Roaring '20s, refers to the 1920s decade in music and fashion, as it happened in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, [ 1 ] Buenos Aires, [ 2 ][ 3 ...
Art Deco architecture flourished in New York City during the 1920s and 1930s. The style broke with many traditional architectural conventions and was characterized by verticality, ornamentation, and building materials such as plastics, metals, and terra cotta. Art Deco is found in government edifices, commercial projects, and residential ...
The International Style is a major architectural style and movement that began in western Europe in the 1920s and dominated modern architecture until the 1970s. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It is defined by strict adherence to functional and utilitarian designs and construction methods, typically expressed through minimalism. [ 2 ][ 3 ] The style is ...
Beaux-Arts architecture (/ boʊzˈɑːr / bohz AR, French: [boz‿aʁ] ⓘ) was the academic architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century. It drew upon the principles of French neoclassicism, but also incorporated Renaissance and Baroque elements, and used modern ...
The Prairie School was an attempt at developing an indigenous North American style of architecture in sympathy with the ideals and design aesthetics of the Arts and Crafts Movement, with which it shared an embrace of handcrafting and craftsman guilds as an antidote to the dehumanizing effects of mass production.
The Bauhaus emblem, designed by Oskar Schlemmer, was adopted in 1922. Typography by Herbert Bayer above the entrance to the workshop block of the Bauhaus Dessau, 2005. The Staatliches Bauhaus (German: [ˈʃtaːtlɪçəs ˈbaʊˌhaʊs] ⓘ), commonly known as the Bauhaus (German for 'building house'), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts. [1]
Vernacular architecture. Minangkabau architecture from West Sumatra, Indonesia, inspired by the shape of a buffalo horn. English vernacular building, 16th-century half-timbering and later buildings, in the village of Lavenham, Suffolk. A pair of single 1920s shotgun houses in the Campground Historic District of Mobile, Alabama.