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  2. List of architectural styles - Wikipedia

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    Frederick C. Robie House, an example of Prairie School architecture. An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable and historically identifiable. A style may include such elements as form, method of construction, building materials, and regional character.

  3. Plateresque - Wikipedia

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    Plateresque, meaning "in the manner of a silversmith" (plata being silver in Spanish), was an artistic movement, especially architectural, developed in Spain and its territories, which appeared between the late Gothic and early Renaissance in the late 15th century and spread over the next two centuries.

  4. History of sundials - Wikipedia

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    World's oldest known sundial, from Egypt's Valley of the Kings (c. 1500 BC), used to measure work hours. [1] [2] [3]A sundial is a device that indicates time by using a light spot or shadow cast by the position of the Sun on a reference scale. [4]

  5. Architectural style - Wikipedia

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    An architectural style is a classification of buildings (and nonbuilding structures) based on a set of characteristics and features, including overall appearance, ...

  6. Fanlight - Wikipedia

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    Fanlight at Montgomery's Inn in Toronto, Canada Hotel in Ariah Park, New South Wales, with its name in the fanlight. A fanlight is a form of lunette window, often semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan. [1]

  7. Louis XVI style - Wikipedia

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    Louis XVI style, also called Louis Seize, is a style of architecture, furniture, decoration and art which developed in France during the 19-year reign of Louis XVI (1774–1792), just before the French Revolution. It saw the final phase of the Baroque style as well as the birth of French Neoclassicism. The style was a reaction against the ...

  8. Nordic Classicism - Wikipedia

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    Parliament of Finland, Helsinki (1926–1931) by Johan Sigfrid Sirén. Haugesund City Hall (1922–1931) by Gudolf Blakstad and Herman Munthe-Kaas.. Certain architects had reached the culmination of their careers already when the National Romantic style came, but their latter works were in the Nordic Classicism style (e.g. Carl Westman), the career of others culminated with Nordic Classicism ...

  9. First Period - Wikipedia

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    The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts, the oldest still-standing timber structure in North America, was built in c. 1637. First Period is an American architecture style originating between approximately 1626 and 1725, used primarily by British colonists during the settlement of the British colonies of North America, particularly in Massachusetts and Virginia.