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It was a contemporary of art nouveau. Insofar as Vienna was the "Paris of the East" there are some similarities as both were reactions to beaux arts and utilized new materials and techniques. I prefer it to art nouveau because I generally prefer the more rectilinear lines and starker contrasts of German styles compared to the more curvilinear lines and softer contrasts of French styles. The Edwardian period is my favorite time in history and I also like art nouveau, but prefer Secessionist.
Yes. Maybe. Dunno.
The style part is being one story with simple lines with a garage, a LARGE garage.
That's "configuration" or "house type."
What K'ledgeBldr was pointing out to you is that the "style" has to do with the way a building looks.
All of the houses below are one-story houses, for instance. This one is a midcentury modern house designed by California architect Richard Neutra, who also designed a bunch of houses in Philadelphia:
And this is "Glass House," the home High Modernist architect Philip Johnson designed for himself in 1949 in New Caanan, Conn. It's listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and it's now open to the public, as Johnson died in 2005:
Glass House by Staib via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
See how widely these houses vary in their appearance? Yet they're all one-story houses. "Style" describes their appearance. "One-story" is a house type — as is a "ranch house," by the way; three of the houses pictured here fall into the "ranch house" category.
It was a contemporary of art nouveau. Insofar as Vienna was the "Paris of the East" there are some similarities as both were reactions to beaux arts and utilized new materials and techniques. I prefer it to art nouveau because I generally prefer the more rectilinear lines and starker contrasts of German styles compared to the more curvilinear lines and softer contrasts of French styles. The Edwardian period is my favorite time in history and I also like art nouveau, but prefer Secessionist.
I see echoes of Secessionist style in some of Frank Lloyd Wright's early works; it appears that his "Prairie Style" and it are distant cousins, though most architectural historians trace his roots to Chicago architect Louis Sullivan, under whom Wright apprenticed, and Wright himself was fond of the muscular Victorian style of Philadelphia architect Frank Furness — a visit he made to Penn's Graduate School of Fine Arts* in the late 1950s did much to rescue Furness' reputation and a number of his less-well-known buildings from the dustbin of history most Philadelphia architects of the time had tossed both in.
*Now known as the Weitzman School of Design, Penn's Graduate School of Fine Arts was one of the most prominent redoubts of beaux-arts style in the first half of the 20th century, when Beaux-Arts-trained architect Paul Philippe Cret headed it. In fact, while I was working on the Penn Current there, I teased a photo from an exhibit of GSFA work from Penn's Architectural Archives with the cutline "The American École des Beaux-Arts".
I like a lot of local historical house styles, my faves are probably - these have organic / romantic shapes and details:
- Shingle
- Arts and Crafts Bungalow
Then - these are sparing, but you really feel the history of these styles dating back 300 years:
- Saltbox
- Cape Cod
And finally I also like - these can be a little grand for my taste, but are undeniably beautiful:
- Greek Revival (simpler vernacular versions)
- Queen Anne Victorian
- Romanesque (in civic buildings and churches and the rare mansion)
This is a really great and hard question. Here are favorites from the top of my head
Art Deco
Roman
Craftsman - Queen Anne Victorian
I prefer small houses in craftsman style. Skyscrapers to be Art Deco. I would use Roman civic buildings.
Modern styles are more hit and miss in my book. The modern international style is straight up bland in my book; bland! However I love the look of postmodern architecture when it comes to things like concert halls. I live in LA so I'm a huge fan of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Concert Halls in general are a place where modern architecture really is great. I would like to see a postmodern neighborhood but I never see one. I see one nice building here and there, but I would like to see Frank Gehry or my favorite Zaha Hadid (her firm) do a neighborhood. I'll tentatively say postmodern deconstructivist as one style that I do like; particularly for these glass buildings because I think glass boxes are boring. I would like to see normal buildings like clothing stores made in this style. Postmodern deconstructivism really does work for concrete, glass and steel which is how we make the world today. So for final count
Art Deco
Roman
Queen Anne Victorian
Deconstructivist
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