Category Archives: Art Deco

Voice of America

Posted on November 29, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

Observed on the Voice of America Building, D.C.:

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Modern and Deco

Posted on August 5, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

An odd pairing of adjacent apartment buildings, one very modern, and one art deco, observed at 16th and Church Streets, NW D.C.:

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Deco Reflecting

Posted on July 14, 2014 by mikethemadbiologist

Observed on 16th Street, between T and U Street:

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New England Power

Posted on May 8, 2013 by mikethemadbiologist

One of the fortunate things about Boston–and I think this largely accidental–is that it was spared from many of the architectural monstrosities of the 1950s and 1960s (the utter destruction of the West End being the obvious exception). With that … Continue reading →

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A Moment of Art Deco Romanticism

Posted on September 23, 2006 by mikethemadbiologist

Yes, the title is oxymoronic. But if Bevis Hillier and Stephen Escritt are right, much of the Art Deco movement was fundamentally oxymoronic.
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