ART / Movements / Art Deco

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The ART DECO style, and its two variants, Zig-zag Moderne, which originated in Europe, and Stream Line Moderne, which originated in the United States, arrived in Guayaquil's architecture belatedly, around the first half of the 1930s, nearly 10 years after the 1925 Paris Exposition. This phenomenon in Guayaquil's architecture was evident until the end of the 1940s, with the facades of some buildings in Guayaquil appe…

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influential visual arts design style which first appeared in France during the 1920s

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Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished internationally during the 1920s to early 1930s, through styling and design of the exterior and interior of anything from large structures to small objects, including clothing, fashion, and jewelry. Art Deco has influenced buildin…

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Many African countries are home to extraordinary architecture that is virtually unknown. There are interpretations of Art Deco, International Style, Brutalism as well as of African vernacular architecture. Climate-responsive buildings with a fluidity of interior and exterior spaces play a large role. While many of these 20th century architects were of European origin, they were deeply influenced by their surrounding…

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