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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.
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. [3] It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, [4] planning, designing, and constructing buildings or other structures. [5]
Influenced by the coming of the Space Age, the Googie-themed architecture popularity was most notable from the mid-1940s to early 1970s, among motels, coffee houses and gas stations. The term "Googie" comes from a now defunct coffee shop and cafe built in West Hollywood [ 1 ] designed by John Lautner .
Ram Raz (1834), Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus, The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Harvard College Library archives). 2. E.B. Havell (1915 edition), The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study pf Indo-Aryan Civilisation , John Murray, London.
This school was established in 2006 [1] by the New York State Department of Education. It was intended to support its students to the fields of architecture, engineering or construction trades. In the 2009–2010 school year this high school had its first graduating class.
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Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revival style incorporates 11th- and 12th-century southern French, Spanish, and Italian Romanesque characteristics.
Here are the best teen comedy movies that you probably saw when you were in high school, but take it from me, they def still hold up today. The Princess Diaries No teen movie hits the nostalgia ...