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Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture Paperback - 2004

by Alan Hess


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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.

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The Streamline Moderne style of the 1930s in Los Angeles served as a convincing dress rehearsal for the technological futurism of the 1950s.

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  • Title Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture
  • Author Alan Hess
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Chronicle Books, San Francisco
  • Date October 7, 2004
  • ISBN 9780811842723 / 081184272X
  • Weight 2.48 lbs (1.12 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 11 x 1 in (21.59 x 27.94 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Popular culture - California, Southern -, Modern movement (Architecture) - California,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004021231
  • Dewey Decimal Code 725.710

About the author

Alan Hess is architecture critic of the San Jose Mercury News and the author of numerous books, including Palm Springs Weekend (0-8118-2804-2) and Rancho Deluxe (0-8118-2420-9). He divides his time between Northern California and Michigan.
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