The Edith Farnsworth House, designed by Mies Van Der Rohe, and completed in 1950. This house is an example of the International Style, of which Mies was a major proponent.
The phrase “organic modernism” broadly refers to modernist architecture and design that incorporates inspiration from natural shapes and forms, along with materials from nature.
Googie architecture features sloping roofs, acute angles, cantilevers, organic curves, tail fins, bright colors, boomerang shapes and starbursts.
Space Age refers to futuristic Mid Century Modern design starting in 1957, the year Sputnik launched, and ending in 1972, when the Apollo missions concluded. That is the period of history that we also term the “Space Age.”
The name “brutalism” does not refer to the “brutal” look many people feel the style has, but rather than French phrase “béton brut,” which means “raw concrete.”