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2. New Classical architecture - Wikipedia

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   National Design Academy, in Nottingham (heritage interior design). [43] The Prince's Foundation for Building Community, in London. The Prince's School of Traditional Arts, in London. Unit 6 of the Kingston School of Art's Master of Architecture program, [44] the only postgraduate unit in the United Kingdom to teach classical design. Previously ...

3. Neoclassical architecture - Wikipedia

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   At the forefront of the new school of design was the aristocratic "architect earl", Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington; in 1729, he and William Kent designed Chiswick House. This house was a reinterpretation of Palladio's Villa Capra "La Rotonda", but purified of 16th-century elements and ornament. This severe lack of ornamentation was to be ...

4. Swiss chalet style - Wikipedia

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   Villa Fridheim in Krødsherad, Norway. Swiss chalet style originated in the Romantic era of the late 18th- and early 19th-century, when the ideas of the English landscape garden inspired parks and residences in Germany, such as the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm. It became highly appreciated on the continent by noble landowners who were impressed ...

5. Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture - Wikipedia

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   Le Corbusier's Five Points of Architecture is an architecture manifesto conceived by architect Le Corbusier. [1] It outlines five key principles of design that he considered to be the foundations of the modern architectural discipline, which would be expressed through much of his designs.

6. Chiswick House - Wikipedia

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   Chiswick House is a Neo-Palladian style villa in the Chiswick district of London, England.A "glorious" [1] example of Neo-Palladian architecture in west London, the house was designed and built by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694–1753), and completed in 1729.

7. Contemporary architecture - Wikipedia

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   Contemporary architecture is the architecture of the 21st century. No single style is dominant. [1] Contemporary architects work in several different styles, from postmodernism, high-tech architecture and new references and interpretations of traditional architecture [2] [3] to highly conceptual forms and designs, resembling sculpture on an enormous scale.

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9. Architecture of Chiswick House - Wikipedia

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   Inside the Villa many references to the Roman goddess Venus abound, as Venus was the mother of Aeneas who fled Troy and co-founded Rome. On the forecourt to the Villa are several 'term' statues that derive their forms from the Roman god Terminus, the god of distance and space. Such items therefore are used as boundary markers, positioned in the ...