{"id":112,"date":"2014-02-25T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=112"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:38:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:38:13","slug":"googie-influenced-architecture-at-oral-roberts-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"Googie Influenced Architecture at Oral Roberts University"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A couple weeks ago I spent an hour or so on the Oral Roberts University campus. I had my Holga 135PC pinhole camera with me. Most of the buildings on the campus were designed by one man, Frank Wallace are in a style now known as “Googie” but back then in the early 1960’s was known as “Space Age.” The buildings are ORU use lots of bronzed reflective glass.<\/span><\/p>\n

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(Christ’s Chapel – A Figurative Tent to reflect Oral Robert’s beginnings as a tent revival preacher.)<\/span><\/p>\n

For a long time the architecture looked outdated and run down but the revival of all things retro and 1960’s it seems that the buildings are coming back in style. It helps that they now have money for maintenance and upkeep.<\/span><\/p>\n

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(A digital pic of Howard Auditorium with its geodesic dome)<\/p>\n

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(This isn’t architecture, this is just having fun)<\/p>\n

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(Shooting a shot with a pinhole camera into a reflection of the sun. My question is how can you have lens flare without a lens?)<\/p>\n

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