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Architectural style is used to categorise examples of architecture into groups of similar form, materials, historical period, techniques, region etc..  Styles often have definitive examples, and the architects of these structures are often associated with particular styles.
   
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x International style The Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, Germany (1927) Farnsworth House Richard Neutra
The International style was a major architectural style that emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, the formative decades of Modernist architecture. The term had its origin from the name of a book by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson written to...
Kleinhans Music Hall Rudolf Schindler
S.R. Crown Hall Le Corbusier
Lafayette Park Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Central Instrumentation Facility Berthold Lubetkin
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x Modern architecture Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, a well known example of modern architecture Beinecke Library Pietro Belluschi
Modern architecture is characterized by simplification of form and creation of ornament from the structure and theme of the building. The first variants were conceived early in the 20th century. Modern architecture was adopted by many influential...
Cliffhanger Villa Alvar Aalto
Rockefeller Center Philip Johnson
Fallingwater Walter Gropius
Farnsworth House Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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x Mid-century modern Diamond chair Chemosphere Wayne McAllister
Mid-Century modern is an architectural, interior and product design form that generally describes mid-20th century developments in modern design, architecture, and urban development from roughly 1933 to 1965. The term was coined in 1983 by Cara...
Eero Saarinen
George Nelson
Arne Jacobsen
Alvar Aalto
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x Art Nouveau Gresham Palace Gresham Palace Antoni Gaudí
Art Nouveau (French pronunciation: [aʁ nuvo], anglicised to /ˈɑrt nuːˈvou/) is an international movement and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that peaked in popularity at the turn of the 20th century (1890...
Jubilee Synagogue Victor Horta
Hall of Graduate Studies Charles Rennie Mackintosh
6 Rue Paul Émile Janson Otto Wagner
Paris Metro Entrance Joseph Maria Olbrich
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x Bauhaus Bauhaus Campana Factory Hannes Meyer
Bauhaus (help·info) ("House of Building" or "Building School") is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus (help·info), a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and...
Saint John's Abbey Walter Gropius
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
x Organic architecture FallingwaterWright Residence for Florence and William Tsui Rudolf Steiner
Organic architecture is a philosophy of architecture which promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world through design approaches so sympathetic and well integrated with its site that buildings, furnishings, and surroundings...
Medical Facilty, University of Louvain Bruce Goff
Imre Makovecz
Bruno Zevi
Gustav Stickley
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x Postmodernism Mönchengladbach museum detail Monument House Frank Gehry
Postmodernism literally means 'after the modernist movement'. While "modern" itself refers to something "related to the present", the movement of modernism and the following reaction of postmodernism are defined by a set of perspectives. It is used...
Snowhill Robert A. M. Stern
Oslo City Hall
x Deconstructivism Royal Ontario Museum House VI Frank Gehry
Deconstructivism in architecture, also called deconstruction, is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s. It is characterized by ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure's surface or skin...
Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse
Dubai Opera House
Nationale Nederlande Building
x Renaissance architecture Tempietto05 Palazzo Venezia Leonardo da Vinci
Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, in which there was a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought...
Palazzo Farnese Filippo Brunelleschi
Sistine Chapel Pirro Ligorio
Villa d'Este
North Philadelphia station
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x Modern Traditionalist     Robert A. M. Stern  
x Beaux-Arts architecture Palais Garnier is a cornerpiece of Beaux-Arts architecture characterized by Émile Zola as "the opulent bastard of all styles" Alberta Legislative Building Henry Hobson Richardson
Beaux-Arts architecture denotes the academic neoclassical architectural style that was taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The style "Beaux Arts" is above all the cumulative product of two and a half centuries of instruction under the...
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House John Russell Pope
American Academy in Rome Richard Morris Hunt
Boston Public Library Raymond Hood
Brooklyn Museum Paul Philippe Cret
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x Futurism     Eero Saarinen  
x Googie architecture Early photo of seattle space needle Prayer Tower John Lautner
Googie architecture (also known as populuxe) is a form of novelty architecture and a subdivision of futurist architecture, influenced by car culture and the Space and Atomic Ages. Originating in Southern California during the late 1940s and...
TWA Flight Center Wayne McAllister
Bob's Big Boy Restaurant, Toluca Lake Eldon Davis
Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign Douglas Honnold
Holiday Bowl Gyo Obata
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x French Renaissance architecture French Renaissance: Château de Chambord(1519-1539). Silliman College James Francis Dunn
French Renaissance architecture is the style of architecture which was imported from Italy during the early 16 century and developed in the light of local architectural traditions. During the early years of the 16 century the French were involved in...
Château de Chambord
Lord Baltimore Hotel
Dunrobin Castle
Haiti National Palace
x Contemporary architecture M-T4   Santiago Calatrava
Contemporary architecture is generally speaking the architecture being made at the present time. The term contemporary architecture is also applied to a range of styles of recently built structures and space which are optimized for current use.
x Tudor style architecture Kings College Chapel outside view Old Dorm Block Henry Holland
The Tudor style in architecture is the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, for conservative college patrons. It followed the Perpendicular style and, although superseded by Elizabethan...
Eliot Hall
Ladd
Abington
Kerr
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x Desert Modernism   Kaufmann House John Lautner  
Miller (Grace Lewis) Richard Neutra
The Palm Springs Desert Museum Albert Frey
Palm Springs City Hall E. Stewart Williams
Tramway Gas Station by Frey & Chambers Donald Wexler
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x American Craftsman Craftsmanhouse Neils Hogenson House Julia Morgan
The American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, interior design, and decorative arts style popular from the last years of the 19th century through the early years of the 20th century. As...
Barberville Central High School
Wharton Esherick Studio
Laura Ingalls Wilder House
Craftsman Farms
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x Art Deco Chrysler building- top London Forum Raymond Hood
Art Deco was a popular international art design movement from 1925 until the 1940s, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and...
Empire State Building Walter Dorwin Teague
Rockefeller Center Albert Kahn
Foshay Tower Ernest Cormier
Fisher Building John Wellborn Root, Jr.
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x Mock Baronial      
The Mock Baronial style of architecture was one typical of Scottish stately homes of the Victorian era and the turn of the twentieth century. Typical features included castle-like "mock" turrets and ramparts, giving the owners the feeling of owning...
x Mission Revival Style architecture Exterior Corridor at San Fernando Rey de Espana Coral Gables Biltmore Hotel  
The Mission Revival Style was an architectural movement that began in the late 19th century and drew inspiration from the early Spanish missions in California. The movement enjoyed its greatest popularity between 1890 and 1915, though numerous...
Peoria State Hospital
Milton-Myers American Legion Post No. 65
The Bagdad Theater and Pub
Tarragona Tower
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x Georgian Dublin Georgian Dublin    
Georgian Dublin is a phrase used in the History of Dublin that has two interwoven meanings, Though strictly speaking, Georgian architecture could only exist during the reigns of the four Georges, it had its antecedents prior to 1714 and its style of...
x Brutalist architecture Unite d'Habitation, Marseille 33 Thomas Street Ernest Born
Brutalist architecture is a style of architecture which flourished from the 1950s to the mid 1970s, spawned from the modernist architectural movement. The English architects Alison and Peter Smithson coined the term in 1954, from the French béton...
50 Queen Anne's Gate
Balfron Tower
Barbican Arts Centre
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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x Humane Modernism     Hidalgo Moya  
Philip Powell
x Khmer architectural style   Angkor Wat    
x Moorish Revival Arc de Triomf Barcelona Jubilee Synagogue  
Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of the Romanticist fascination with all things oriental. It reached the height of its popularity...
Eldridge Street Synagogue
Scroll and Key
Central Synagogue
Congregation Rodeph Shalom
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x Colonial Sephardic   Ohel Leah Synagogue    
x Perpendicular Period   St. Mary's Church, Nottingham  
The Perpendicular Gothic period (or simply Perpendicular) is the third historical division of English Gothic architecture, and is so-called because it is characterised by an emphasis on vertical lines; it is also known as the Rectilinear style, or...
King's College Chapel, Cambridge
Ottery St Mary Church
Collumpton Church
Bath Abbey
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x Baroque architecture Giacomo della Porta's façade of the Church of the Gesù, a precursor of the baroque Church of the Gesu Kryštof Dientzenhofer
Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state....
Sandomierz Synagogue Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli
Great Suburb Synagogue Carlo Maderno
St. Peter's Basilica Carlo Lurago
Fontana di Trevi Pietro Perti
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x Gothic Revival architecture Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster, London: Gothic details provided by A.W.N. Pugin Great Synagogue, Katowice James Hine
The Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or Neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement which began in the 1740s in England. Its popularity grew rapidly in the early nineteenth century, when increasingly serious and learned admirers of...
Wadsworth Atheneum Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Barbizon Hotel for Women William Burges
Sather Tower John Burnet
Apsley House John Douglas, architect
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x Eclecticism Eclecticism in architecture Great Synagogue, Katowice  
Eclecticism is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to gain complementary insights into a subject, or applies different theories in...
Beaumont House
Law Courts of Brussels
Temple of Human Passions
x Neo-gothic architecture   Great Synagogue, Katowice  
Neo-gothic architecture is a broad term for an architecture style of the Gothic revival that began in mid-18th century in England. It spread in Europe in the 1830s and later in America. In theory, the style lasted until the Art Deco movement of the...
Skull and Bones
Cathedral of Saint Paul and Peter
St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata
Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk
x Neo-Renaissance Chateau de Ferrieres Great Synagogue, Katowice  
Renaissance Revival (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is an all-encompassing style designation that covers many aspects of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Grecian (see Greek Revival) nor Gothic (see Gothic...
Great Synagogue, Gdansk
Prague National Theatre
Hungarian State Opera House
Boston Public Library
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x Byzantine architecture The 6th-century church of Hagia Irene in Constantinople is a superb sample of the early Byzantine architecture Olomouc Synagogue  
Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire. The empire gradually emerged as a distinct artistic and cultural entity from what is today referred to as the Roman Empire after AD 330, when the Roman Emperor Constantine moved the...
Basilica di San Lorenzo, Milano
Uzhgorod Synagogue
Castle Falkenstein
Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe
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x Nazi architecture Germany pavilion at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris, 1937 Volkshalle  
Nazi architecture was an architectural plan and integral part of the Nazi party's plans to create a cultural and spiritual rebirth in Germany as part of the Third Reich. Adolf Hitler was an admirer of imperial Rome and aware that some ancient...
Tempelhof International Airport
Reich Chancellery
x Neoclassical architecture Église de la Madeleine Museo del Prado William Henry Playfair
Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century, both as a reaction against the Rococo style of anti-tectonic naturalistic ornament, and an outgrowth of some classicizing...
Schermerhorn Symphony Center Auguste de Montferrand
Temple Beth-El John Soane
Prinz-Carl-Palais Claude Nicolas Ledoux
United States Capitol Hack Kampmann
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x Gothic architecture Paris Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Limoges  
Gothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture. Originating in 12th-century France and lasting into the...
Cologne Cathedral
King's College Chapel, Cambridge
Notre-Dame de Reims
Notre Dame de Paris
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x Romanesque architecture Tournai JPG001 Bamberg Cathedral  
Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of Medieval Europe, characterised by semi-circular arches, and evolving into the Gothic style, characterised by pointed arches, beginning in the 12th century. Although there is no consensus for the...
Tournai Cathedral
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre d'Angoulême
Basilica di San Lorenzo, Firenze
Verona Cathedral
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x Norman architecture Durham Cathedral Ely Cathedral  
The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries. In particular the term is traditionally used for...
Rochester Castle
White Tower
Peterborough Cathedral
Durham Cathedral
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x Italianate architecture Cliveden, June 2005 Osborne House  
The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct nineteenth-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of sixteenth-century Italian architecture, which had served as...
Government House, Melbourne
Pardee Home
Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park
Pioneer Courthouse
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x Roman architecture Segovia Aqueduct Antonine Wall  
The Architecture of Ancient Rome adopted the external Greek architecture for their own purposes, creating a new architectural style. The two styles are often considered one body of classical architecture. This approach is considered reproductive,...
Baths of Trajan
Pantheon, Rome
Colosseum
Tower of Hercules
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x Palladian architecture Palladian architecture Villa Capra "La Rotonda" Andrea Palladio
Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture derived from the designs of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). The term "Palladian" normally refers to buildings in a style inspired by Palladio's own work; that which is...
Villa Badoer
Villa Foscari
Tauride Palace
Villa Serego
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x Georgian Royalscentialh Royal Crescent  
Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain,...
Harvard Club of New York
Harvard Club of Boston
Embassy of the United States in Canberra
Mount Vernon
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x Russian architecture St Basils Cathedral-500px Saint Basil's Cathedral  
Russian architecture follows a tradition whose roots were established in the Eastern Slavic state of Kievan Rus'. After the fall of Kiev, Russian architectural history continued in the principalities of Vladimir-Suzdal, and Novgorod, and the...
x Postmodern architecture 1000-de-la-gauchetiere Fashion Island John Burgee
Postmodern architecture was an international style whose first examples are generally cited as being from the 1950s, but which did not become a movement until the late 1970s and continues to influence present-day architecture. Postmodernity in...
Abteiberg Museum Robert Venturi
Brion-Vega Cemetery James Stirling
Beetham Tower, Birmingham Michael Graves
Best Products Warehouse Philip Johnson
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x Hoysala architecture Hoysala emblem Chennakesava Temple  
Hoysala architecture (Kannada: ಹೊಯ್ಸಳ ವಾಸ್ತುಶಿಲ್ಪ) is the building style developed under the rule of the Hoysala Empire between the 11th and 14th centuries, in the region known today as Karnataka, a state of India. Hoysala influence was at its peak...
x Romanesque Revival architecture The Bexar County Courthouse is a historic building in downtown San Antonio, Texas. A. K. Watson Hall Henry Hobson Richardson
Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed in the late 19th century inspired by the 11th and 12th century Romanesque style of architecture. Popular features of these revival buildings are round arches, semi-circular...
Puck Building
Royal Museum
Cathedral of the Madeleine
Knight Library
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x Constructivist architecture Nktp vesn 3 Zuev Workers' Club Berthold Lubetkin
Constructivist architecture was a form of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s. It combined advanced technology and engineering with an avowedly Communist social purpose. Although it was divided into...
x Jacobean architecture CB Hall1 Hatfield House  
The Jacobean style is the second phase of Renaissance architecture in England, following the Elizabethan style. It is named after King James I of England, with whose reign it is associated. The reign of James VI of Scotland (or James I of England) ...
Knole House
Holland House
Aston Hall
Bacon's Castle
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x Greek Revival "The Tower of the Winds, Athens" from The Antiquities of Athens, 1762 Villa Kerylos  
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of...
Brandenburg Gate
Book and Snake
Vermont State House
Old Bethel United Methodist Church
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x Chinese architecture Forbidden City1 Liuhe Pagoda  
Chinese architecture refers to a style of architecture that has taken shape in Asia over many centuries. The structural principles of Chinese architecture have remained largely unchanged, the main changes being only the decorative details. Since the...
Pagoda of Fogong Temple
Three Pagodas
Putuo Zongcheng Temple
Giant Wild Goose Pagoda
x Stalinist architecture Iofan's Palace of Soviets design Casa Presei Libere  
Stalinist architecture (Russian: ста́линский ампи́р – Stalin's Empire style or ста́линский неоренесса́нс – Stalin's Neo-renaissance), also referred to as the Stalinist Gothic, or Socialist Classicism, is a term given to architecture of the Soviet...
Moscow State University
Latvian Academy of Sciences
Hotel Ukrayina
x Islamic architecture the interior of the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne Selimiye Mosque  
Islamic architecture encompasses a wide range of both secular and religious styles from the foundation of Islam to the present day, influencing the design and construction of buildings and structures in Islamic culture. The principal Islamic...
Shah Mosque
Charminar
x Elizabethan architecture Harwick Hall 07-04 Littlecote House  
Elizabethan architecture is the term given to early Renaissance architecture in England, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Historically, the period corresponds to the Cinquecento in Italy, the Early Renaissance in France, and the Plateresque...
Stowmarket Railway Station
Needham Market railway station
Down Hall
x Temple architecture LDSTempleDiagram2 Frankfurt Germany Temple  
On December 27, 1832—two years after the organization of Latter Day Saint church—the movement's founder, Joseph Smith, Jr., reported receiving a revelation that called upon church members to restore the practice of temple worship. The Latter Day...
Manila Philippines Temple
Los Angeles California Temple
Hamilton New Zealand Temple
London England Temple
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x Sustainable architecture K2 apartments windsor 901 Cherry William McDonough
Sustainable architecture is a general term that describes environmentally-conscious design techniques in the field of architecture. Sustainable architecture is framed by the larger discussion of sustainability and the pressing economic and political...
30 St Mary Axe Ashok "Bihari" Lall
Tour Oxygène Brenda and Robert Vale
Tour Incity Buckminster Fuller
Charles Correa
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x Futurist architecture Perspective drawing from La Citta Nuova, 1914. Tomorrowland Eero Saarinen
Futurist architecture (or Futurism) began as an early-20th century form of architecture characterized by anti-historicism and long horizontal lines suggesting speed, motion and urgency. Technology and even violence were among the themes of the...
Dakin Building Welton Becket
Epcot Arthur Erickson
Space Needle Zaha Hadid
Theme Building John Lautner
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x Expressionist architecture Babelsberg Einsteinturm   Bruno Taut
Expressionist architecture was an architectural movement that developed in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts. The term "Expressionist architecture" initially described...
Adolf Behne
Hermann Finsterlin
Walter Gropius
Hugo Häring
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x Neo-Byzantine architecture   Greek Orthodox Church of St Nicholas  
The Byzantine Revival (also referred to as Neo-Byzantine) was an architectural revival movement, most frequently seen in religious, institutional and public buildings. It emerged in 1840s in Western Europe and peaked in the last quarter of 19th...
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Congregation Beth Israel of Portland, Oregon
Park East Synagogue
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
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x Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture A home in the Spanish Colonial Revival Style Serralles Castle  
The Spanish Colonial Revival was a United States architectural movement that came about in the early 20th century, starting in California and Florida as a regional expression related to both history and environment. The Spanish Colonial Revival...
El Capitan Theatre
Scotty's Castle
Freedom Tower
Coral Gables Biltmore Hotel
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