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Architectural styles introduced/popular in 20th-century architecture. ... Streamline Moderne architecture (7 C, 20 P) Stripped Classical architecture (1 C, 18 P) Z.
20th-century architectural styles (36 C, 63 P) 1900s architecture (15 C, 27 P) 1910s architecture (15 C, 10 P) 1920s architecture (15 C, 26 P) 1930s architecture (15 ...
Stripped Classical architecture in the United States (2 C, 30 P) Pages in category "20th-century architecture in the United States" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Art Deco was the style of design and architecture that marked the era. Originating in Europe, it spread to the rest of western Europe and North America towards the mid-1920s. In the U.S., one of the more remarkable buildings featuring this style was constructed as the tallest building of the time: the Chrysler Building. The forms of Art Deco ...
The architecture of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, derived from the ancient Mediterranean civilizations such as at Knossos on Crete. They developed highly refined systems for proportions and style, using mathematics and geometry.
The term "International Style" was first used in 1932 by the historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock and architect Philip Johnson to describe a movement among European architects in the 1920s that was distinguished by three key design principles: (1) "Architecture as volume – thin planes or surfaces create the building’s form, as opposed to a solid mass"; (2) "Regularity in the facade, as ...
Italianate. Modeled after farmhouses on the Italian countryside in the early 1800s, Italianate-style homes stand out for their grand stature. This style made its way to the U.S. in the 1850s ...
Furthermore, cultural institutions concentrated on fine art and scholars paid little attention to the revolutionary styles of modernism. Economic and technological progress in the U.S. during the Roaring Twenties gave rise to widespread utopianism, which influenced some modernist artists, while others were skeptical of the embrace of technology ...