The term Googie came from the name of a Los Angeles restaurant designed by John Lautner.Credit...Earl Leaf/Michael Ochs Archives, via Getty Image The critic Douglas Haskell is credited with ...
Googie architecture touched down in Los Angeles in 1949 thanks to John Lautner's futuristic design of the long-gone Googie's Coffee Shop in Hollywood. Even though Lautner designed mostly private ...