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Much as building designs changed and morphed with traditional forms, architectural photography also evolved with time. During the early-to-mid-20th century, architectural photography became more creative as photographers used diagonal lines and bold shadows in their compositions, and experimented with other innovative techniques.
Googie architecture (/ ˈ ɡ uː ɡ i / ⓘ GOO-ghee [1]) is a type of futurist architecture influenced by car culture, jets, the Atomic Age and the Space Age. [2] It originated in Southern California from the Streamline Moderne architecture of the 1930s, and was popular in the United States from roughly 1945 to the early 1970s.
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The creepypasta showed an image exemplifying a liminal space—a hallway with yellow carpets and wallpaper—with a caption purporting that by "noclipping out of bounds in real life", one may enter the Backrooms, an empty wasteland of corridors with nothing but "the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background ...
WU Vienna, Library & Learning Center by Zaha Hadid. Neo-futurism is a late-20th to early-21st-century movement in the arts, design, and architecture. [2] [3]Described as an avant-garde movement, [4] as well as a futuristic rethinking of the thought behind aesthetics and functionality of design in growing cities, the movement has its origins in the mid-20th-century structural expressionist work ...
During the 1960s and 1970s, he became noted for his designs for Chicago's 100-story John Hancock Center, which was the first building to use the trussed-tube design, and 110-story Sears Tower, since renamed Willis Tower, the tallest building in the world from 1973 until 1998, which was the first building to use the framed-tube design.
Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). What is today recognised as Palladian architecture evolved from his concepts of symmetry , perspective and the principles of formal classical architecture from ancient Greek and Roman traditions.
Frank Owen Gehry CC FAIA (/ ˈ ɡ ɛər i / GAIR-ee; né Goldberg; born February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-American architect and designer.A number of his buildings, including his private residence in Santa Monica, California, have become attractions.