Ciao Marina,

da qualche ricerca in Rete, sembra che questo termine sia utilizzato da un famoso architetto razionalista per riferirsi all'assenza di elementi decorativi/ornamentali tipici dell'art nouveau (da cui il termine è mutuato):


"**No noodles**!" (Mies van der Rohe); **absence of ornament** and ostentatious facades, harmony between form and function... Mies van der Rohe was the most extreme and pure of the rationalist Bauhaus School. He wanted his buildings to be "all skin and bones;" "**no noodles (decoration)**;"
www.csus.edu/indiv/c/craftg/HRS166/Topics covered.doc


**Art Nouveau - The Noodle** Style...
Did you know that there was an art style that was named after **noodles**? Art Nouveau artwork had many **curls** in it, just like some kinds of pasta. This unforgettable, **curly style** was nicknamed the **noodle style**.
http://edhelper.com/ReadingComprehension_42_202.html


Bisogna poi vedere se lo specifico contesto richieda una traduzione un po' più "colorita" di quella che ti ho proposto (non so, magari "fronzoli", "riccioli/volute stile art-nouveau/liberty", o simili).


Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No **noodles** nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings of skin and bones.
—Mies van der Rohe, Working Theses, 1923
http://unmartmuseum.unm.edu/docs/ArchitectureEducationBinder...


...with the **stripping away of ornament**, as in **the saying, ‘no noodles’ attributed to Mies van der Rohe**
www.idea-edu.com/content/download/219/755/file/Design, the ...


"No noodles," van de Rohe, one of the heroes of the style, used to say. In 1900 Paris, l'art moderne was not machine culture at all. It was organic, luscious and hysterically decorative - what we now call art nouveau, whose **twining whiplash curves** (or **noodles**) were the polar opposite of machine metaphors.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2006/mar/20/architect...


Le decorazioni sono a **riccioli liberty**. ...
www.sonioland.com/?pg=creazioni&pag=11&cat=bigiotteria&scat...