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In a shift from more ornate architecture, the style now known as midcentury modern emerged in postwar Southern California across all building types—from austere cantilevered beach houses in Malibu, CA, to corporate jet hangars and rectilinear post offices—like a diffuse Brasilia rained down everywhere regardless of class, place, or purpose. Driven by hangovers of wartime austerity and the need for housing after World War II, modernist architecture ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More