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| International style |
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Person | Richard Neutra |
The International style was a major architectural style of the 1920s and 1930s. The term usually refers to the buildings and architects of the formative decades of Modernism, before World War II. The term had its origin from the name of a book by...
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| Rudolf Schindler | |||||
| Le Corbusier | |||||
| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | |||||
| Modern architecture |
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Beinecke Library | Richard Neutra |
Modern architecture, is a term given to a number of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of ornament. The style was conceived early in the 20th century. Modern architecture was...
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| Cliffhanger Villa | Raphael Soriano | ||||
| Pierre Koenig | |||||
| Rudolf Schindler | |||||
| Louis Kahn | |||||
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| Mid-century modern | Chemosphere | Raphael Soriano |
Mid-Century modern is an architectural, interior and product design form that generally describes pre- and post- second world war developments in modern design, architecture, and urban development from roughly 1933 to 1965. Mid-century architecture...
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| Rudolf Schindler | |||||
| Richard Neutra | |||||
| Louis Kahn | |||||
| Alvar Aalto | |||||
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| Art Nouveau |
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Art period/movement | Jubilee Synagogue | Charles Rennie Mackintosh |
Art Nouveau (, anglicised ) (French for 'new art'), also known as Jugendstil (German for 'youth style'), is an international movement and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that peaked in popularity at the turn...
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| Hall of Graduate Studies | Victor Horta | ||||
| Antoni Gaudí | |||||
| Bauhaus |
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Art period/movement | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
"House of Building" or "Building School") is the common term for the , a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933.
The Bauhaus...
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| Employer | Walter Gropius | ||||
| Educational Institution | Hannes Meyer | ||||
| Organic architecture |
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Residence for Florence and William Tsui | Frank Lloyd Wright |
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...
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| Antoni Gaudí | |||||
| Louis Sullivan | |||||
| Gustav Stickley | |||||
| Bruno Zevi | |||||
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| Postmodernism | Art period/movement | Frank Gehry |
Postmodernism literally means 'after the modern'. It is used in critical theory to refer to a point of departure for works of literature, drama, architecture, and design, as well as in marketing and business and the interpretation of history, law...
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| Film subject | Robert A. M. Stern | ||||
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| Deconstructivism |
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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...
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| Renaissance architecture |
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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...
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| Palazzo Farnese, Rome | Filippo Brunelleschi | ||||
| Sistine Chapel | Pirro Ligorio | ||||
| Villa d'Este | |||||
| North Philadelphia station | |||||
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| Modern Traditionalist | Robert A. M. Stern | ||||
| Beaux-Arts architecture |
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Alberta Legislative Building | Charles Follen McKim |
Beaux Arts architecture denotes the academic classical 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...
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| Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House | Stanford White | ||||
| American Academy in Rome | William Rutherford Mead | ||||
| Boston Public Library | William W. Bosworth | ||||
| Brooklyn Museum | Daniel Burnham | ||||
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| Futurism | Eero Saarinen | ||||
| Googie architecture |
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Wayne McAllister |
Googie, also known as populuxe or doo-wop, is a subdivision of futurist architecture, influenced by car culture and the Space Age and Atomic Age, originating from Southern California in the late 1940s and continuing approximately into the mid-1960s....
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| John Lautner | |||||
| Arts and Crafts movement |
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Art period/movement | Hall of Graduate Studies | Bernard Maybeck |
The Arts and Crafts Movement was a British and American aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century. Inspired by the writings of John Ruskin and a romantic idealization of the craftsman...
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| Ernest Coxhead | |||||
| French Renaissance architecture |
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Silliman College | James Francis Dunn |
French Renaissance architecture is the style of architecture which was imported from Italy during the early 16th century and developed in the light of local architectural traditions.
During the early years of the 16th century the French were...
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| Contemporary architecture |
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Santiago Calatrava |
Contemporary architecture is the architecture being made at the present time. It also includes that of the last few decades, from the 1980s to the present.
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| Tudor style architecture |
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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...
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| Neoclassicism |
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Art period/movement | Henry Holland |
Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and visual art, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw upon Western classical art and culture ...
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| Federal | James Gandon | ||||
| Desert Modernism | Albert Frey | ||||
| Richard Neutra | |||||
| John Lautner | |||||
| American Craftsman |
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Julia Morgan |
The American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, interior design, and decorative art style popular from the last years of the 19th century through the early years of the 20th century. As...
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| Service-oriented architecture |
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Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a methodology for systems development and integration where functionality is grouped around business process and packaged as interoperable ''services''. SOA also describes IT infrastructure which allows...
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| Art Deco |
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Art period/movement | London Forum |
Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, 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 film....
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| 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...
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| Mission Revival Style architecture |
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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...
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| Georgian Dublin |
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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...
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| Brutalist architecture |
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33 Thomas Street | Ernest Born |
The term Brutalist Architecture originates from the French béton brut, or "raw concrete", a term used by Le Corbusier to describe his choice of material. The Brutalist style of architectural spawned from the modernist architectural movement and...
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| 50 Queen Anne's Gate | |||||
| Balfron Tower | |||||
| Barbican Arts Centre | |||||
| Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive | |||||
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| Humane Modernism | Hidalgo Moya | ||||
| Philip Powell | |||||
| Khmer architectural style | Angkor Wat | ||||
| Moorish Revival |
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Jubilee Synagogue |
Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural style 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...
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| Eldridge Street Synagogue | |||||
| Scroll and Key | |||||
| Central Synagogue | |||||
| Congregation Rodeph Shalom | |||||
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