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2. List of architectural styles - Wikipedia

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   Most architecture can be classified as a chronology of styles which change over time reflecting changing fashions, beliefs and religions, or the emergence of new ideas, technology, or materials which make new styles possible. Styles therefore emerge from the history of a society and are documented in the subject of architectural history. At any ...

3. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The former House and School of Industry at 120 West 16th Street in New York City Simon C. Sherwood House (1884), Southport, Connecticut. The British 19th-century Queen Anne style that had been formulated there by Norman Shaw and other architects arrived in New York City with the new housing for the New York House and School of Industry [3] at 120 West 16th Street (designed by Sidney V ...

4. List of house styles - Wikipedia

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   This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of houses. African

5. Arch - Wikipedia

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   If one impost is much higher than another, the arch (frequently pointed) is known as ramping arch, raking arch, [90] or rampant arch (from French: arc rampant). [91] Originally used to support inclined structures, like stairs, in the 13th-14th centuries they appeared as parts of flying buttresses used to counteract the thrust of Gothic ribbed ...

6. 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.

7. America's Favorite Architecture - Wikipedia

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   "America's Favorite Architecture" is a list of buildings and other structures identified as the most popular works of architecture in the United States.. In 2006 and 2007, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) sponsored research to identify the most popular works of architecture in the United States.

8. Multifoil arch - Wikipedia

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   Multifoil arch in the Aljafería, Zaragoza, Spain. A multifoil arch (or polyfoil arch), also known as a cusped arch, [1] [2] polylobed arch, [3] [4] or scalloped arch, [5] is an arch characterized by multiple circular arcs or leaf shapes (called foils, lobes, or cusps) that are cut into its interior profile or intrados.

9. Architecture - Wikipedia

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   The style of design and method of construction of buildings and other physical structures. [9] A unifying or coherent form or structure. [11] Knowledge of art, science, technology, and humanity. [9] The design activity of the architect, [9] from the macro-level (urban design, landscape architecture) to the micro-level (construction details and ...