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In modern times California was settled by the Spanish. The missions and early ranchos were built in a Spanish colonial vernacular. Later Spanish revival styles were popular in the early 20th century in California and Florida. The warm temperatures and landscaping go well with Spanish and meditterranean architecture. It remains popular today....
Same goes for a large part of Texas.
Here is a rather large, but nicely designed, one floor Spanish/Mediterranean being built in Austin:
Med style is an architecture with a meaning, modern buildings are just utilitarian and videogames by archistars, they have no meaning.
I agree.
All pre-Modern architecture has a greater relationship to its setting and function than Modern. The words used to praise Modernism are usually the opposite of what actually exists. And Modernism doesn't serve the function for which the structure was intended.
The Mediterranean style has a function intended in its design but that, too, fails when one builds a Med style house in (ie) Buffalo, NY.
BTW, I think "starchitects" sounds better than "archistars" because the whole of "architects" is written.
There have always been houses in the Mediterranean style in CA. It started with the Spanish, who colonized the SW, and continued under Mexico, of course. It's a beautiful architectural style, and Coastal California certainly is Mediterranean in climate, most of it. I don't know how strong the Spanish heritage in Florida was. It sounds like an odd question to ask about CA; you sound as though you're under the impression it's something new. It goes back hundreds of years.
i think its because the it looks simple and classy.
This, too. But the style originally included big, shaded verandas, and inner courtyards, two features that were perfectly suited to mild climates. Not so much for snowy climes.
My House under construction is that style, Mediterranean means Bricks, Stone, Ceramics, Arcs, columns, and Ceramic Roof tiles
This is not the typical style, though. The style in California would have part of the second floor overhanging a tiled veranda on the ground floor, with the beams showing on the underside of the 2nd floor. Yours also looks like the ground floor is built of river rock or some kind of stone, which isn't typical.
This is not the typical style, though. The style in California would have part of the second floor overhanging a tiled veranda on the ground floor, with the beams showing on the underside of the 2nd floor. Yours also looks like the ground floor is built of river rock or some kind of stone, which isn't typical.
What you are describing is a sub-type within the domestic Mediterranean style, the Monterey, which arose out of the central California area surrounding the Missions and the large Ranchos of the era.
But I agree that the pictured house under construction is atypical of the Mediterranean styles that made their way over here, it being more of southern Mediterranean coastal/island design that one would find in Greece, Malta or similar area.
Being in California, I love the rich variety of Mediterranean/Spanish styles so common here that evoke so much of the era and geographical area, including our handsome '20s Spanish Revival on the canyon above the sea. It fits so well here.
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