ArchitectureHomage to Roadside Modern by Patrick Greene
The Jack Kerouac House at 1418 Clouser Ave ., Orlando
The Davis Park Motel ( now Faith Arts Village , or FAVO ) was built in 1957 . It was referred to as roadside modernism or Googie architecture . Googie was the name of a coffee shop that Los Angeles architect John Lautner designed . His designs often had an element of cartoonish futurism The , almost Davis Park Jetson-like Motel , ( mixed now Faith with Arts mid-century Village , or modern FAVO .)
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Umberto The Eco front ’ s building Travels in of the Hyperreality Davis Park is Motel a collection was made of essays over that discusses or covered humankind up in ’ s the efforts ’ 80s to . However one up nature , the back . I read building the collection is , about for ten the years most ago part , but , unchanged I ’ m always . The thinking type of about design it . I is think so in-abougrained country in my ’ s Sun experience Belt has of been growing hyperreality up in ’ s Florida biggest . This offender .
how our Roadside installation modernism pays might reverence possess to an enough aesthetic kitsch that to has be mostly considered hyperreal been , but removed it is . a look that has also become synonymous with a summer vacation , spring break , or a cold glass of Orange Julius . It feels like home , and it is relevant in my mind .
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Umberto Eco ’ s Travels in Hyperreality is a collection of essays that discusses humankind ’ s efforts to one up nature . I read the collection about ten years ago , but I ’ m always thinking about it . I think about how our country ’ s Sun Belt has been hyperreality ’ s biggest offender . Roadside modernism might possess enough kitsch to be considered hyperreal , but it is a look that has also become synonymous with a summer vacation , spring break , or a cold glass of Orange Julius . It feels like home , and it is relevant in my mind .
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