Art Deco is a style of architecture developed in the early 1900’s in Europe that then gained popularity globally. The style was influenced by the Vienna Secession and Cubism. The name derives from the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative And Industrial Arts which was held in Paris France in 1925.
Art Deco has a slick linear appearance of form often with stepped up building setbacks, stacked. Later Art Deco happily embraced curves. Ornamentation is generally geometric and makes use of bold colors, often bright and contrasting. Art Deco freely mixed traditional building materials with new, such as stucco, terra cotta, plate glass and metals, in particular stainless steel, chrome plating and aluminum. The height of Art Deco is from about 1910 to the late 1930s, tapering off with the outbreak of World War II.
Post World War II, many of the elements that made up Art Deco returned, but in newer and more regional forms, as exemplified by Googie Archtiecture and Miami Modern.
Architects:
William Van Alen
Raymond Hood
L Murray Dixon
Henry Hohauser
Albert Anis
Emery Roth
Victor Nellenbogen
Gordon Kaufmann
Albert Kahn