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  2. Colonial architecture of Southeast Asia - Wikipedia

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    Soon after a commissariat was erected. In the early 20th century, the French Colonials has established may buildings and whilst somewhat preserving traditional architecture, the French Colonials had an evident influence on the city. They built a mansion for the résident-supérieur (governor) where the precedent royal palace was. They also ...

  3. Vernacular architecture - Wikipedia

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    Vernacular architecture (also folk architecture [1]) is building done outside any academic tradition, and without professional guidance. It is not a particular architectural movement or style, but rather a broad category, encompassing a wide range and variety of building types, with differing methods of construction, from around the world, both ...

  4. Chettinad mansions - Wikipedia

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    The Chettinad mansions are a collection of over 10,000 lavish homes of the Nattukottai Chettiar community in the region of Chettinad in South India. [1] These mansions were built with materials from all across the globe to signify the community's wealth as merchants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [2]

  5. Colonial architecture of Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    The differences is whereas the Indies Style country houses were essentially Indonesian houses with European trim, by the early 20th century, the trend was for modernist influences—such as art-deco—being expressed in essentially European buildings with Indonesian trim (such as the pictured home's high-pitched roofs with Javan ridge details ...

  6. French colonial architecture - Wikipedia

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    French colonisation of three countries in mainland Southeast Asia—Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, known as Indochina in the 19th and 20th centuries, left a lasting architectural legacy. Most French colonial buildings, now mostly transformed for public use, are located in large urban areas, namely Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), and Phnom ...

  7. Eclecticism in architecture - Wikipedia

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    The term is also used of the many architects of the 19th and early 20th centuries who designed buildings in a variety of styles according to the wishes of their clients, or their own. The styles were typically revivalist, and each building might be mostly or entirely consistent within the style selected, or itself an eclectic mixture.

  8. Bahay na bato - Wikipedia

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    The first buildings during the early years of Spanish occupation were Bahay kubo which are made of wood and bamboo materials. It is a type of construction with which the pre-Hispanic indigenous Filipinos had been working expertly since early times and is known as Austronesian architecture .

  9. Architecture of Mongolia - Wikipedia

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    The monotony of urban architecture was criticised at four successive congresses of the Mongolian Association of Architects beginning in 1972, but no significant improvement was achieved. [14] The early 1980s brought new public buildings, such as the Lenin Museum and the Yalalt Cinema (now the Tengis).