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The Streamline Moderne was sometimes a reflection of austere economic times; sharp angles were replaced with simple, aerodynamic curves, and ornament was replaced with smooth concrete and glass. The style was the first to incorporate electric light into architectural structure.
The Streamline Moderne style, a 1930s and 1940s offshoot of Art Deco, brought flowing lines to architecture and design of the era. The canonical example of a streamlined shape is a chicken egg with the blunt end facing forwards.
Club Moderne, Anaconda, Montana.Designed by Fred F. Willson, 1937. 1430 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, Florida, on a c. 1940 postcard.. Moderne architecture, also sometimes referred to as Style Moderne or simply Moderne, Jazz Age, Moderne, [1] Jazz Modern or Jazz style, describes certain styles of architecture popular from 1925 through the 1940s.
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 ...
In the late 1930s, a new variety of Art Deco architecture became common; it was called Streamline Moderne or simply Streamline, or, in France, the Style Paquebot, or Ocean Liner style. Buildings in the style had rounded corners and long horizontal lines; they were built of reinforced concrete and were almost always white; and they sometimes had ...
The group met once more in Paris in 1937 to discuss public housing and was scheduled to meet in the United States in 1939, but the meeting was cancelled because of the war. The legacy of the CIAM was a roughly common style and doctrine which helped define modern architecture in Europe and the United States after World War II. [37]
Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. [2] Philosophy, politics, architecture, and social issues were all aspects of this movement.
Streamline Moderne architecture in the United States (4 C, 92 P) Pages in category "Streamline Moderne architecture" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.