F. SCOTT FITZGERALD was the author who glamorized and criticized the new urban life and the jazz age.
His works, "The Great Gatsby" and "Tender is the Night" are products of his glamorization and criticism. They chronicle the excesses that happened in the "Jazz Age".
The answer to this question is entasis.
Entasis is a design principle in architecture where in a convex curve was applied to a surface which also serves a strength to the construction and it also gives an optical illusion to it. Egyptian pyramids use this design principle.