The Working Model
The Working Model
Retrofuturist architecture
Googie
Googie architecture Is a style of futurist architecture influenced by the space age car culture and airplanes. Features of the style include upswept roofs, geometric shapes, symbolic designs of motion (flying saucers, boomerangs). Googie Architecture with popular between the 1930s and 1940s and continued to be seen into the 1960s .
Populuxe
Populuxe was an architectural design in the 1950s and 1960s that meant popular and luxury. Used pastel colours with curved corners and angular shapes and large sheets of metals such as stainless steel to imitate Chrome making designs feel more expensive then they really were .
doo wop
Doo wop the style of architecture that came about in the early years of the 1950s after a dramatic cultural shift In America. These buildings what designs to have elements of rock and roll through sharp lines and neon but also to contain elements of the space age through large sheets of glass and curved forms