Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture

Hess, Alan

ISBN 10: 081184272X / ISBN 13: 9780811842723

Edité par Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, California, 2004

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222pp.incl.index; SC b/w photo w/white; fine conditiow w/clean,tight photos. "Glorious coffee shops, delirious drive-ins, and gems of roadside architecture. In page after page of iconic design -- Googie Redux is the benchmark history of the humble eateries that fulfilled some of modernism's greatest dreams." color&b/w photos throughout. signed on title pg. N° de réf. du vendeur 015306

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Titre : Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside ...

Éditeur : Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, California

Date d'édition : 2004

Reliure : Paper Back

Etat : Fine (New)

Etat de la jaquette : Fine (New)

Signé : Signed by Author(s)

Edition : 1st Revised & Expanded

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Book by Hess Alan

Présentation de l'éditeur:

A thoroughly revised and significantly expanded edition of the popular 1980s original, Googie Redux is the authoritative history of the mid-20th century icon that ignited an architectural revolution: the coffee shop. Emblematic of Southern California car culture, stylized eateries and other roadside buildings built from the 1930s to the 1950s were dismissed as lowbrow stylistic folly in their heyday. Yet, as Alan Hess points out, in many ways they were the realization of modern architecture's grand promises. They were populist, employed new materials, and captured their purpose, place, and culture as vividly as any great architectural style. The influential original edition helped to spark a robust preservation movement and kick-started the reappreciation of mid-century architecture and design. This latest edition features extensive up-to-date research and dozens of rarely seen and newly found photographs. Googie Redux is the definitive document of a style born in California that has spread to all corners of the world.