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| x International style |
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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...
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| 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 |
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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...
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| 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 |
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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...
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| Eero Saarinen | ||||
| George Nelson | ||||
| Arne Jacobsen | ||||
| Alvar Aalto | ||||
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| x Art Nouveau |
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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...
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| 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 |
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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...
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| Saint John's Abbey | Walter Gropius | |||
| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | ||||
| x Organic architecture |
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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...
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| Medical Facilty, University of Louvain | Bruce Goff | |||
| Imre Makovecz | ||||
| Bruno Zevi | ||||
| Gustav Stickley | ||||
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| x Postmodernism |
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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...
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| Snowhill | Robert A. M. Stern | |||
| Oslo City Hall | ||||
| x Deconstructivism |
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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...
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| Wayne L. Morse United States Courthouse | ||||
| Dubai Opera House | ||||
| Nationale Nederlande Building | ||||
| x 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 | 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 |
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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...
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| 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 |
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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...
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| 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 |
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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 16 century and developed in the light of local architectural traditions.
During the early years of the 16 century the French were involved in...
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| Château de Chambord | ||||
| Lord Baltimore Hotel | ||||
| Dunrobin Castle | ||||
| Haiti National Palace | ||||
| x Contemporary architecture |
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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.
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| x 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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| 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 |
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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...
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| Barberville Central High School | ||||
| Wharton Esherick Studio | ||||
| Laura Ingalls Wilder House | ||||
| Craftsman Farms | ||||
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| x Art Deco |
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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...
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| 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...
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| x Mission Revival Style architecture |
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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...
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| Peoria State Hospital | ||||
| Milton-Myers American Legion Post No. 65 | ||||
| The Bagdad Theater and Pub | ||||
| Tarragona Tower | ||||
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| x 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 of...
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| x Brutalist architecture |
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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...
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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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| x Humane Modernism | Hidalgo Moya | |||
| Philip Powell | ||||
| x Khmer architectural style | Angkor Wat | |||
| x Moorish Revival |
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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...
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| 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...
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| King's College Chapel, Cambridge | ||||
| Ottery St Mary Church | ||||
| Collumpton Church | ||||
| Bath Abbey | ||||
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| x Baroque architecture |
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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....
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| 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 |
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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...
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| 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 |
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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...
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| 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...
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| Skull and Bones | ||||
| Cathedral of Saint Paul and Peter | ||||
| St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata | ||||
| Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk | ||||
| x Neo-Renaissance |
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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...
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| Great Synagogue, Gdansk | ||||
| Prague National Theatre | ||||
| Hungarian State Opera House | ||||
| Boston Public Library | ||||
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| x Byzantine architecture |
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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...
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| Basilica di San Lorenzo, Milano | ||||
| Uzhgorod Synagogue | ||||
| Castle Falkenstein | ||||
| Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe | ||||
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| x Nazi architecture |
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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...
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| Tempelhof International Airport | ||||
| Reich Chancellery | ||||
| x Neoclassical architecture |
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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...
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| 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 |
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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...
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| Cologne Cathedral | ||||
| King's College Chapel, Cambridge | ||||
| Notre-Dame de Reims | ||||
| Notre Dame de Paris | ||||
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| x Romanesque architecture |
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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...
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| Tournai Cathedral | ||||
| Cathédrale Saint-Pierre d'Angoulême | ||||
| Basilica di San Lorenzo, Firenze | ||||
| Verona Cathedral | ||||
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| x Norman architecture |
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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...
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| Rochester Castle | ||||
| White Tower | ||||
| Peterborough Cathedral | ||||
| Durham Cathedral | ||||
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| x Italianate architecture |
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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...
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| Government House, Melbourne | ||||
| Pardee Home | ||||
| Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park | ||||
| Pioneer Courthouse | ||||
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| x Roman architecture |
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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,...
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| Baths of Trajan | ||||
| Pantheon, Rome | ||||
| Colosseum | ||||
| Tower of Hercules | ||||
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| x Palladian architecture |
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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...
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| Villa Badoer | ||||
| Villa Foscari | ||||
| Tauride Palace | ||||
| Villa Serego | ||||
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| x Georgian |
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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,...
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| 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 |
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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...
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| x Postmodern architecture |
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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...
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| 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 |
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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...
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| x Romanesque Revival architecture |
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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...
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| Puck Building | ||||
| Royal Museum | ||||
| Cathedral of the Madeleine | ||||
| Knight Library | ||||
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| x Constructivist architecture |
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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...
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| x Jacobean architecture |
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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) ...
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| Knole House | ||||
| Holland House | ||||
| Aston Hall | ||||
| Bacon's Castle | ||||
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| x Greek Revival |
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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...
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| Brandenburg Gate | ||||
| Book and Snake | ||||
| Vermont State House | ||||
| Old Bethel United Methodist Church | ||||
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| x Chinese architecture |
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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...
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| Pagoda of Fogong Temple | ||||
| Three Pagodas | ||||
| Putuo Zongcheng Temple | ||||
| Giant Wild Goose Pagoda | ||||
| x Stalinist architecture |
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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...
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| Moscow State University | ||||
| Latvian Academy of Sciences | ||||
| Hotel Ukrayina | ||||
| x Islamic architecture |
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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...
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| Shah Mosque | ||||
| Charminar | ||||
| x Elizabethan architecture |
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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...
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| Stowmarket Railway Station | ||||
| Needham Market railway station | ||||
| Down Hall | ||||
| x Temple architecture |
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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...
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| Manila Philippines Temple | ||||
| Los Angeles California Temple | ||||
| Hamilton New Zealand Temple | ||||
| London England Temple | ||||
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| x Sustainable architecture |
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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...
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| 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 |
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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...
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| Dakin Building | Welton Becket | |||
| Epcot | Arthur Erickson | |||
| Space Needle | Zaha Hadid | |||
| Theme Building | John Lautner | |||
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| x Expressionist architecture |
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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...
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| 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...
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| 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 |
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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...
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| El Capitan Theatre | ||||
| Scotty's Castle | ||||
| Freedom Tower | ||||
| Coral Gables Biltmore Hotel | ||||
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