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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
A villa with a superimposed portico, from Book IV of Palladio's I quattro libri dell'architettura, in an English translation published in London, 1736 Plan for Palladio's Villa La Rotonda (c. 1565) – features of the house were incorporated in numerous Palladian-style houses throughout Europe over the following centuries.
The oldest known octagon-shaped building [citation needed] is the Tower of the Winds in Athens, Greece, which was constructed circa 300 B.C. Octagon houses were popularized in the United States in the mid-19th century and there are too many to list here, see instead List of octagon houses. There are also octagonal houses built in other times ...
Mezzanines help to make a high-ceilinged space feel more personal and less vast, and can create additional floor space. [4] Mezzanines, however, may have lower-than-normal ceilings [1] due to their location. The term "mezzanine" does not imply any particular function; mezzanines can be used for a wide array of purposes. [5] [6]
In grand houses, an entrance hall led to steps up to a piano nobile or mezzanine floor where the main reception rooms were. Typically the basement area or "rustic", with kitchens, offices and service areas, as well as male guests with muddy boots, [ 15 ] came some way above ground, and was lit by windows that were high on the inside, but just ...
Frank Lloyd Wright designed 1,141 houses, commercial buildings and other works throughout his lifetime, including 532 that were eventually built. As of 2013 [update] , there were 409 extant structures designed by Wright.
House no. Illustration Name Affectation Description 8 L'Étoile (Dutch: De Sterre; "The Star") House of the Amman: Built in 1695–96. It was demolished in 1853 with the whole side of the street whose corner it occupies, and which was then called the Rue de l'Étoile / Sterrestraat, to allow the passage of a horse-drawn tramway.
"The House with the Mezzanine" (Russian: Дом с мезонином, romanized: Dom s mezoninom) is an 1896 short story by Anton Chekhov, subtitled (and also translated as) "An Artist's Story" (Рассказ художника, Rasskaz khudozhnika).