Googie Architecture An Art Form Worth Saving
While architects have largely abandoned Googie Architecture, its optimism toward the future is a vision well worth saving. Source: Flickr It was almost utopian: an architectural form with a vocabulary all its own, including its moniker—Googie. Named after the Los Angeles coffee shop Googies and designed by architect John Lautner in the late 1940s, the Googie architecture style expressed society’s burgeoning fascination with space flight as well as its recent understanding of the Atomic Age and its power....