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Constructing schemes of the period styles of historic art and architecture was a major concern of 19th century scholars in the new and initially mostly German-speaking field of art history. Important writers on the broad theory of style including Carl Friedrich von Rumohr , Gottfried Semper , and Alois Riegl in his Stilfragen of 1893, with ...
Robert Adam FRIAS (born 1948) is a Driehaus Architecture Prize winning British architect, urban designer and author, known for championing classical and traditional styles. Adam is a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde and Design Council Expert.
Robert van 't Hoff (November 5, 1887 – April 25, 1979), born Robbert van 't Hoff, was a Dutch architect and furniture designer. His Villa Henny , designed in 1914, was one of the earliest modernist houses and one of the first to be built out of reinforced concrete .
Equally is the debate where architecture should be based on traditional topology and design styles i.e. classical and vernacular base architecture or if it should be an expression of its time. The same issues are indicated within the industrial design domain where it has been debated if retro design should be accepted or not as good design.
Polite architecture; Prairie Style 1900–1917 US; Pueblo style 1898–1990s; Shingle Style 1879–1905 New England; Queen Anne Style architecture 1870–1910s UK and US; Queenslander 1840s–1960s; Ranch-style 1940s–1970s US; Repoblación architecture 880s–11th century; Spain; Regency architecture; Richardsonian Romanesque 1880s US; Rococo
Adam style; Aerospace architecture; American Empire style; Amsterdam School; Ancient Chinese wooden architecture; Architectural school of Nakhchivan; Architecture terrible; Arts and Crafts movement; Asturian architecture; Australian architectural styles; Australian non-residential architectural styles; Aztec architecture
Robert Stacy-Judd (1884–1975) was an English architect and author who designed theaters, hotels, and other commercial buildings in the Mayan Revival architecture Style in Great Britain and the United States. Stacy-Judd's synthesis of the style used Maya architecture, Aztec architecture, and Art Deco precedents as his influences.
Characteristically, modernist art has a tendency to abstraction, is innovative, aesthetic, futuristic and self-referential. It includes visual art, literature, music, film, design, architecture as well as life style. It reacts against historicism, artistic conventions and institutionalization of art. Art was not only to be dealt with in ...