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Compared to those in the shoin style, roof eaves in the sukiya style bend downward. [16] While the shoin style was suitable for ceremonial architecture, it became too imposing for residential buildings. Consequently, the less formal sukiya style was used for mansions for the aristocracy and samurai after the beginning of the Edo period. [17] [18]
In the Azuchi-Momoyama period not only sukiya style but the contrasting shoin-zukuri (書院造) of residences of the warrior class developed. While sukiya was a small space, simple and austere, shoin-zukuri style was that of large, magnificent reception areas, the setting for the pomp and ceremony of the feudal lords.
This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of houses. African Cape ...
From Colonial to modern, see pictures of architectural house styles in your area, across the country or around the world. Learn more about their history. The 25 Most Popular Architectural House Styles
A typical California bungalow, in Berkeley, California. California bungalow is an alternative name for the American Craftsman style of residential architecture, when it was applied to small-to-medium-sized homes rather than the large "ultimate bungalow" houses of designers like Greene and Greene.
This 1852 Greek Revival Michigan example features the main entrance on the ell or "wing". Upright and Wing, also referred to as Temple and Wing or Gable and Wing, is a residential architectural style found in American vernacular architecture of New England and the Upper Midwest, specifically associated with the American Greek Revival.
The concept of architectural style is studied in the architectural history as one of the approaches ("style and period") that are used to organize the history of architecture (Leach lists five other approaches as "biography, geography and culture, type, technique, theme and analogy"). [5]
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