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Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In industrial design, it was used in railroad locomotives, telephones, buses, appliances, and other devices to give 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 ...
15 Constructivist architecture and Constructivism (art) (1920s – early 1930s) 16 Streamline Moderne (1870–1939) 17 Cultural Revolution Radical period (design) (1960–1979)
A sleeker form of the style, called Streamline Moderne, appeared in the 1930s, featuring curving forms and smooth, polished surfaces. [6] Art Deco was a truly international style, but its dominance ended with the beginning of World War II and the rise of the strictly functional and unadorned styles of modern architecture and the International ...
Cleveland Greyhound bus station by William Strudwick Arrasmith, 1948. William Strudwick Arrasmith (July 15, 1898 – November 30, 1965) was an American architect known for his designs for Greyhound bus stations in the Streamline Moderne style popular in the 1930s and 1940s.
Rationalism 1920s–1930s (Italy) Bauhaus 1919–1930+ (Germany, Northern Europe) De Stijl 1920s (Holland, Europe) Moderne 1925+ (global) Art Deco 1925–1940s (global) List of Art Deco architecture; Streamline Moderne 1930–1937; Modernism 1927–1960s; International Style 1930+ (Europe, US) Usonian 1936–1940s (US)
The Coca-Cola Building is a Coca-Cola bottling plant modeled as a Streamline Moderne building designed by architect Robert V. Derrah with the appearance of a ship with portholes, catwalk and a bridge from five existing industrial buildings in 1939. [2] [3] [4] It is located at 1334 South Central Avenue in Los Angeles, California.
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.