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13 Modern and Post-modern. 14 ... This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of ...
The Rietveld Schröder House constitutes both inside and outside a radical break with all architecture before it. The two-storey house is situated in Utrecht, at the end of a terrace, but it makes no attempt to relate to its neighbouring buildings (although it shares an exterior wall with the last house in the terrace). It faces a motorway ...
Villa Savoye (French pronunciation:) is a modernist villa and gatelodge in Poissy, on the outskirts of Paris, France.It was designed by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced concrete.
The Zimmerman House was a low-slung, 2,770-square-foot (257 m 2), five-bedroom, three-bathroom house. According to the non-profit group USModernist, Martin and Eva Zimmerman commissioned the house in 1949. [4] The Zimmermans sold the property to Richard Kelton in 1968; it was sold again in 1975 to Sam and Hilda Rolfe for $205,000. [3]
By the 1950s, the California ranch house, by now often called simply the ranch house or "rambler house", accounted for nine out of every ten new houses. [3] The seemingly endless ability of the style to accommodate the individual needs of the owner/occupant, combined with the very modern inclusion of the latest in building developments and ...
Home in the Queenslander style. Australian residential architectural styles have evolved significantly over time, from the early days of structures made from relatively cheap and imported corrugated iron (which can still be seen in the roofing of historic homes) to more sophisticated styles borrowed from other countries, such as the California bungalow from the United States, the Georgian ...
Inner city terrace house design tended to lack any frontal yard at all, with narrow street frontages, hence the building's structure directly erected in front of the road. One of the reasons behind this was the taxing according to street frontage rather than total area, thereby creating an economic motivation to build narrow and deeply.
Twin Palms, also known as the Frank Sinatra House, at 1148 East Alejo Rd is a mid-century modern house in the Movie Colony–El Mirador neighborhood of Palm Springs, California. [2] The house was designed by E. Stewart Williams, to a commission from the American singer and actor Frank Sinatra. The house was Williams's first residential commission.