America reawakened its heritage during the early 1880s when Colonial Revival architecture began to be the new movement. After celebrating one hundred years as an independent nation, Americans looked to their past for inspiration. This architectural style was a simple design that had very economical plans that made it favorable over other styles. The Philadelphia Contennial of 1876 is credited as the starting point for the rebirth of colonial architecture. Georgian and Federal architecture also had a prominent influence on the revival of elements such as colonial door surrounds, multi-pane sash windows, and cornice dentils on symmetrical façades. A secondary influence came from First Period Post-Medieval English and Dutch Colonial architecture. This introduced the gambrel-roofed …show more content…
The windows are also symmetrically balanced, but are most commonly double-hung sashes with multi-pane glazing in one or both sashes. This is the main way to identify this style, but all architectural styles have subtypes.
Colonial Revival architecture has nine principle subtypes that have evolved with the inspiration of Georgian and Federal prototype. The first is the Asymmetrical, which takes up ten percent of Colonial revival facades. This style ranges from rambling, free-form houses that resemble the Queen Anne style, to simple boxes with asymmetrical window or porch arrangements. The second is the hipped roof with a full-width porch, which were mostly built before 1915. This style is two stories, with a one story full-width porch supported by classical columns. This was most commonly a four-square form home with a central hall. The third style has a hipped roof without the full-width porch. About twenty percent of Colonial Revival houses are simple two-story rectangular blocks. The porch was usually absent, or if present was a small entry porch covering less than the full façade width. Eaves often have a
American Colonies: Contrasting the New England and Southern Colonists The New England and Southern Colonies were both settled largely by the English. By 1700, the regions had evolved into two distinct societies. The southern colonies have characteristics that are the antithesis of the New England colonies attributes. New England was colonized for Freedom of Worship and freedom of political thought.
Queen Anne architecture can not be defined easily. It's architectural style has many different characteristics. In this paper, I will show how the Queen Anne style evolved from the architecture that was common during the reign of Queen Anne herself and also show how it evolved in America in the late 1800's during the Industrial Revolution. I will then show how the Queen Anne style is incorporated into today's architectural design.
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The northern colonies badly needed the services their isolation denied them. The people needed doctors and surgeons and carpenters and blacksmiths. And although they could survive without many of the manufactured goods available only at high prices, they dreamed of owning these things. They dreamed also of luxury items-perfume, spices, silk cloth.
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Influenced by his readings of ancient and modern architectural writings, Jefferson gleaned the best from both his readings and from his observations in Europe, creating his own personal style of architecture, a mix of Neoclassicism’s Roman temples, and Palladian villa. Partly, because of Jefferson’s influence, our federal buildings set an American precedent for the neoclassical style. Jefferson’s admiration for neoclassical style went so far as to design candlesticks based on the Corinthian order.
	One of America’s most influential and imaginative architects was Frank Lloyd Wright. Throughout his 70 year career, Wright has not only designed nearly a thousand structures, but he has explored the ideas of living space, landscape, and the relationship between architecture and community. Frank Lloyd Wright left behind a legacy of beautiful houses and buildings, an American style of architecture, and an example of what it means to live life based on the way things should be, not the way they are. He created some of the most monumental and intimate spaces in America. He designed everything: banks and resorts, office buildings and churches, a filling station and a synagogue, a beer garden and an art museum. Frank Lloyd Wright’s life truly was a work of art.
The Romanesque architecture style, which occurred during the late 11th century to the middle 12th century, literally means “roman-like” architecture. The Romans, who were inspired by the Etruscans, used barreled and groined vaulting. Romanesque architects later adapted the use of rounded arches, giving the style its name. The Romanesque style, being inspired by the Roman architecture, used the plan of the basilica style. Romanesque cathedrals were not originally designed for aesthetic purposes. Romanesque style replaced flat wood ceilings with stone vaulting. It was one of the first styles to use mainly all stone, but the walls of the Romanesque cathedrals were built very thickly. They were almost like a fortress. Romanesque cathedrals had few windows as a result of their thick walls so the churches were very dark. In a sense, this echoed the life that was outside of these sanctuaries’ walls during the Middle Ages.
Architecture, as a profession, did not exist in colonial America. Only the wealthy men of the South were to have some knowledge of architectural styles. Finally gentlemen farmers and merchants were able to create plans and pictures of their dream houses by combining their skills. They were then able to become what was known as amateur architects.
Do you have a living room, open floor plan, or carpet flooring? Most homes in America today have these basic essentials, and Frank Lloyd Wright can be credited for this. Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the most influential Architects in American history. These innovations in modern architecture may not have occurred without him. Wright developed the Prairie style of architecture in 1909. This style is distinguished by horizontal lines on the exterior, a low pitched hipped roof, long bands of windows, wide overhanging eaves, and brick courses or wood bands. Frank Lloyd Wright’s innovations in architecture positively influenced the way American homes were built, therefore affecting their lives. His concept of an open floor plan encouraged families and people inside their homes to interact and relax
Frank Lloyd Wright is arguably the most important and influential architects not just in America, but ever. This might be because he designed so many buildings, many of which are considered some of the most important American buildings. It also might be because when it came to architecture his ideas were very revolutionary. Frank Lloyd Wright was using what he called “Organic Architecture,” while everyone else was using Beaux-Arts architecture. Beaux-Arts architecture can be Classical, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, or Georgian styles. It uses ornamentation, detailed sculptures and carvings. There is often a marble staircase with elaborate banisters. Frank Lloyd Wright felt that the American society was afraid to live as itself. He thought they were just using everybody else’s culture, premade abroad. Wright believed that America should have their own style and art. Frank Lloyd Wright wanted to make a uniquely American architecture. Wright did create a new kind of architecture, Organic Architecture, the only problem was it had already been created. It had the same ideas ...
In the category of modern art, the field that I’m personally fascinated by is architecture. The reason I say this is that architecture is more than just a piece of art, but a masterpiece of the combination of intelligence, physics, and the work of the imagination. I just happened to be in luck when I visited the MOMA because the museum was currently exhibiting a special collection of archives and the designs of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The show displayed all the drafts of the most iconic buildings the Frank Lloyd Wright had designed in his career, and this made it very difficult for me to decide which piece I want to write about because every one were very intriguing.
With the interaction between the development of computational approaches in architecture and the contemporary forms of spatial design intelligence, some new architectural design theories emerged to make differences between architects and control designing processes. These theories are almost employed in all designing realms, from architecture to urban design to provide fields of ideas and solutions that privilege by complexity. Most of these theories are oriented to relay on understanding and using computational methods to generate exotic and complex geometries. In this respect, three of these theories will discussed and tested against three buildings. The theories are: parametric design, genetic architecture and emergence, which characterize some of the contemporary architectural design approaches.
Abstract: Contemporary architects have a wide variety of sources to gain inspiration from, but this has not always been the case. How did modernism effect sources of inspiration? What did post-modernism do to liberate the choice of influences? Now that Contemporary architects have the freedom of choice, how are they using “traditional” styles and materials to inspire them? Even after modernism why are traditional styles still around?