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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.
The Progressive Era (1890s–1920s) [1] [2] was a period in the United States during the early 20th century characterized by various social and political reform efforts. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Reformers during this era, known as Progressives , sought to address issues they associated with rapid industrialization , urbanization , immigration , and ...
National Park Service rustic – sometimes colloquially called Parkitecture – is a style of architecture that developed in the early and middle 20th century in the United States National Park Service (NPS) through its efforts to create buildings that harmonized with the natural environment. Since its founding in 1916, the NPS sought to design ...
Pages in category "Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements architecture" The following 139 pages are in this category, out of 139 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Indies Empire mid-18th century–late 19th century; New Indies late 19th century–20th 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 ...
The American Foursquare or "Prairie Box" was a post-Victorian style, which shared many features with the Prairie architecture pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright.. During the early 1900s and 1910s, Wright even designed his own variations on the Foursquare, including the Robert M. Lamp House, "A Fireproof House for $5000", and several two-story models for American System-Built Homes.
The Minimal Traditional style evolved during the 1930s and was a dominant style in domestic architecture until the Ranch-style house emerged in the early 1950s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Descending in part from the bungalows , cottages , and foursquare houses of the early 20th century, Minimal Traditional houses represent a "stripped-down version of the ...
The term "commercial vernacular" was popularized in the late 1960s by the publication of Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, referring to 20th-century American suburban tract and commercial architecture.