Googie: Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture

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The euphoria about the future that followed World War II permeated the outlooks of architects, who, influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright and with ready access to remarkable new construction material and building techniques spawned by the war technologies, faced the intriguing prospect of redesigning the post war world. Initially the futuristic designs were outrageous, and detr...more

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Published February 1st 1986 by Chronicle Books (CA)

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