Googie/space-age architecture and design from the 50's and 60's

This shit is so cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS6HZv4GXj8

http://www.tuvie.com/wp-content/uploads/caravan-design-by-rob-villa1.jpg

^not actually from the 50s but still cool

this book is essential

http://www.amazon.com/Glitter-Stucco-Dumpster-Diving-Reflections/dp/1859848079

this one too

http://www.amazon.com/Googie-Redux-Ultramodern-Roadside-Architecture/dp/B000C4SL2S/ref=pd_sim_b_2

http://modculture.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/07/20/keracolor.jpg

NO

dnw

three pics in and i already feel like i'm in some sort of daft punk robot head dystopia

http://www.georgenelson.org/images/ball4755.w.jpg

i love it, but i feel like mad men has made appreciation of this stuff reach critical mass. (stevie deux has great taste so no dis intended.)

is george nelson googie?

like i am sitting next to a george nelson turbine clock but i always thought of it more as like a minimal brass sculpture rather than high futurism

can you recommend any color films from the 50s/early 60's that epitomize or prominently display this aesthetic? Like, I feel like this stuff is so prominent in modern works that depict the 50s but I've never really seen anything from the era that played it up much.

This stuff is not what I'd call comfortable to live with. It is trying much too hard to impress you and paying far too little attention to adapting itself to your needs.

googie is only used w/r/t architecture afaik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY_viPkxH1I

Used to get cheap pancakes here:

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/53/108268865_28ce50d7a2_z.jpg

This stuff is not what I'd call comfortable to live with. It is trying much too hard to impress you and paying far too little attention to adapting itself to your needs.

― Aimless, Monday, September 3, 2012 10:18 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well sure but it looks terrific

xp i think of googie as explicitly space-age jetsons type stuff. you should watch some low-budget late 50s / early 60s sci fi movies, a lot of the props are googie leftovers, though not put together the way you'd put together a home.

isn't there a disney movie about life in the future sponsored by general motors or something that shows a googie lifestyle?

I wrote a term paper on this once, which makes me an expert

its great but sad sorta like the nightfly, what has this led to, the mcdonalds sign? that's about it

xp oh duh, i didn't even look at your video

http://www.jetsetmodern.com/images2/54FordFXAtmos.jpg

I wrote a term paper on this once, which makes me an expert iatee

can you recommend any color films from the 50s/early 60's that epitomize or prominently display this aesthetic? Like, I feel like this stuff is so prominent in modern works that depict the 50s but I've never really seen anything from the era that played it up much.

I haven't seen this in ages, but I recall it being crammed with Palm Springs mid-century modern (which isn't EXACTLY the same as Googie, but there's some cross-pollination)...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Palm_Springs_Weekend.jpg

1956 space age:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puxVKNbG_3I

This stuff is not what I'd call comfortable to live with. It is trying much too hard to impress you and paying far too little attention to adapting itself to your needs.

― Aimless, Monday, September 3, 2012 10:18 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dunno, i like the idea of furniture etc that i'm not the boss of. not that i own anything like this.

OH MY FUCK, YES xp

is there a diff btwn "space age" and "atomic age"?

1962 Seattle World's Fair to thread!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgCQWEyvdl4

the lax encounter:

http://www.visitingdc.com/images/lax-encounter-restaurant.jpg

John Lautner to thread!

http://0.tqn.com/d/architecture/1/0/A/w/Elrod-House0614.JPG

that is the best

xpost to jody i swear LAX looks dystopian, like an alien quadraped from mars hunkered down over our capitol city

xp

In terms of aesthetic, there's a lot of overlap. In terms of chronology, the atomic age starts around 1949 and the space age starts around 1959.

LAX is dystopian, in every way.

(that was the Elrod House in Palm Springs)

The Chemosphere in the Hollywood Hills (Benedikt Taschen of Taschen Books lives there now)

http://www.dailyicon.net/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/chemosphere04dailyicon.jpg

xpost

but the most googie place to eat around LAX is pann's diner:

http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users11/jutotheli/default/famous-panns-diner--large-msg-114816046763-2.jpg

but the most googie place to eat around LAX is pann's diner

Since Mad Men was namechecked upthread, should point out that Pann's is the diner where the diner scene in "Tomorrowland" was filmed (when Don proposes to Megan)

and the howard johnson's exterior shots were filmed in baldwin park:

http://www.highwayhost.org/California/LosAngeles/BaldwinPark/baldwinpark1.html

i'm partial to googie's fucked-up li'l cousin, the dingbat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbat_(building)

So he was the one who bought it from Troy McClure.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5k55buxZN1qc63sno1_500.png

stevie, have you been to wildwood? it's a charming dump and the starlux hotel is its crown jewel.

http://cls.cdn-hotels.com/hotels/2000000/1010000/1001200/1001121/1001121_2_b.jpg

also in wildwood:

http://www.preservationnation.org/assets/photos-images/issues/11-most-endangered/lolipop-motel.jpg

that's great

sorry for the giganto img size these.

chemosphere was featured in outer limits episode "the duplicate man"

http://cache.io9.com/assets/images/8/2008/08/medium_chemosphere_outer_limits.flv.jpg

in los angeles plays itself the guy makes an interesting point abt these sorts of houses which is that they were all built w/these super idealistic humanist utopian intentions and in the movies they are always the vilains hideout

tell us more about this interesting point

seems spot on

thats all i got, its a great movie tho if youve never seen it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SNc41zyLJ0

what is that ^^

its the documentary 'los angels plays itself' from which the aforementioned interesting point originated

what's it about, etc

http://www.openculture.com/2012/04/los_angeles_plays_itself.html

Outstanding documentary. Great follow-on to Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlZ0NbC-YDo

in los angeles plays itself the guy makes an interesting point abt these sorts of houses which is that they were all built w/these super idealistic humanist utopian intentions and in the movies they are always the vilains hideout

― lag∞n, Monday, September 3, 2012 9:25 PM

You might want to add The Architecture Of Villains blog to the RSS reader of your choice: http://villainslair.net

Haven't read his book, but he follows along those lines on how utopian architecture has parallel affinities with the Bond-villain architecture.

The Jack Colker Union 76 in Beverly Hills:

http://www.mimoa.eu/images/12266_l.jpg

http://www.solidquality.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/8511000041.jpg