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  2. Critical regionalism - Wikipedia

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    It is a progressive approach to design that seeks to mediate between the global and the local languages of architecture. The phrase "critical regionalism" was first presented in 1981, in ‘The Grid and the Pathway,’ an essay published in Architecture in Greece, by the architectural theorists Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre and, with a ...

  3. Florida cracker architecture - Wikipedia

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    Florida cracker architecture or Southern plantation style is a style of vernacular architecture typified by a low slung, wood-frame house, with a large porch. It was widespread in the 19th and early 20th century. Some elements of the style are still popular as a source of design themes.

  4. City Beautiful movement - Wikipedia

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    The first large-scale elaboration of the City Beautiful occurred in Chicago at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.The planning of the exposition was directed by architect Daniel Burnham, who hired architects from the eastern United States, as well as the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, to build large-scale Beaux-Arts monuments that were vaguely classical with uniform cornice height.

  5. Progressive Era - Wikipedia

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    The Progressive Era (1890s–1920s [1] [2]) was a period in the United States during the early 20th century of widespread social activism and political reform across the country. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Progressives sought to address the problems caused by rapid industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption as well as the enormous ...

  6. Vernacular architecture - Wikipedia

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    Minangkabau architecture from West Sumatra, Indonesia, inspired by the shape of a buffalo horn English vernacular building, 16th-century half-timbering and later buildings, in the village of Lavenham, Suffolk A pair of single 1920s shotgun houses in the Campground Historic District of Mobile, Alabama

  7. List of architectural styles - Wikipedia

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    Indies Empire mid-18th century–late 19th century; New Indies late 19th century20th century (mixed architecture) Dutch Colonial 1615–1674 (Treaty of Westminster) (New England) Chilotan 1600+ (Chiloé and southern Chile) First Period 1625–1725 pre-American vernacular; Architecture of the California missions 1769–1823, (California, US ...

  8. Culture of the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    They accounted for nearly 45% of the Southern population during the Antebellum period through the early 20th century. [17] Despite Jim Crow era outflow to the North and Midwest (see Great Migration), the majority of the black population has remained concentrated in the southern states from Virginia to Texas.

  9. Modern architecture - Wikipedia

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    Tropical Modernism, or Tropical Modern is a style of architecture that merges modernist architecture principles with tropical vernacular traditions, emerging in the mid-20th century. The term is used to describe modernist architecture in various regions of the world, including Latin America, Asia and Africa, as detailed below.