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Space Age Design Relaunches
With renewed excitement about spaceflight inspiring billionaires to invest in quick trips into the stratosphere, we may see a new wave of sci-fi-inspired homes. Michele Lerner, writer for Mansion Global, explores how "Space Age" architecture and futurism continues to shape contemporary architecture throughout America. Featuring Touzet Studio's work alongside other modernist firms like Zaha Hadid Architects in the article, Lerner highlights our futuristic design of the Coral Gables Residence, which includes a floating roof, clerestory windows, terrazzo floors, and operable glass walls. Likewise, La Escondida Residence utilizes walls of floor-to-ceiling glass, reminiscient of Space Age designs from the mid twentieth century.
“Space Age architecture was part of a postwar modernist phase of American optimism in the 1950s and 1960s,” says Jacqueline Gonzalez Touzet, who lives in a 1950s Space Age house with her husband, Carlos Prio-Touzet, in Coral Gables, Florida. Both are architects and principals of Touzet Studio, whose work is influenced by that era. “Unlike Europe, where the focus was on rebuilding after the war, American architects were part of a ‘can-do’ moment based on an economic boom and excitement over new technology.”
Read the full article here.
