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Storybook architecture. Harry Oliver 's Spadena House (1921), also known as the Witch's House, Beverly Hills, California. Storybook architecture or fairytale architecture is a style popularized in the 1920s in England and the United States. Houses built in this style may be referred to as storybook houses.
This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., ... used in the design of houses. African. Cape Dutch (South Africa) ...
In Western architecture, a living room, also called a lounge room (Australian English [1]), lounge (British English [2]), sitting room (British English [3]), or drawing room, is a room for relaxing and socializing in a residential house or apartment. Such a room is sometimes called a front room when it is near the main entrance at the front of ...
The Bauhaus emblem, designed by Oskar Schlemmer, was adopted in 1922. Typography by Herbert Bayer above the entrance to the workshop block of the Bauhaus Dessau, 2005. The Staatliches Bauhaus (German: [ˈʃtaːtlɪçəs ˈbaʊˌhaʊs] ⓘ), commonly known as the Bauhaus (German for 'building house'), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts. [1]
Temporary structures – Quonset hut, Nissen hut, prefabricated home. Underground – Underground living, rock-cut architecture, monolithic church, pit-house. Modern low-energy systems – Straw-bale construction, earthbag construction, rice-hull bagwall construction, earthship, earth house. Various styles – Longhouse.
Image: Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands 20309407 - RCE. An A-frame building is an architectural style [1] of building that features steeply-angled sides (roofline) that usually begin at or near the foundation line, and meet at the top in the shape of the letter A. An A-frame ceiling can be open to the top rafters.
Pfalzgrafenstein Castle (‹See Tfd› German: Burg Pfalzgrafenstein) is a toll castle located on Falkenau island in the Rhine River, near the bank close to Kaub, Germany. Also known as "the Pfalz", Pfalzgrafenstein Castle has never been destroyed since being established in 1326/27. The area is part of the Rhine Gorge, which was added to the ...
Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander (4 October 1936 – 17 March 2022) [1][2][3] was an Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist. He was an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including urban design ...