Colonial and Post-Colonial Flashcards
Colonial architecture’s timeline
1620-1820
Phases of post colonial
- post colonial= 1790-1820 (Neoclassical element)
- first eclectic phase= 1820- 1860 (Greek revival style, gothic and Egyptian style)
- second eclectic phase= 860 to 1930 (Eclectism)
Colonial and Pre-colonial american architecture consists mainly of ________ and _______.
Mesoamerican and Incan Architecture
Periods under colonial architecture
- French colonial
- Spanish
- Georgian
- Dutch
- Saltbox
- Cape Cod
- Southern
- New England
- Garrison
- Federal
- Colonial Revival
- Neo-colonial
He established a loose grid for towns with a central open “plaza” for public buildings and the church or cathedral to present the ecclesiastical and secular order and plots for sale along the side street.
Philip II (1573)
16th century Latin America have the most representative construction of 16th century.
- Establishing and maintaining settlements
- churches and monastery buildings
17th century Spanish missionaries in new Mexico where indigenous techniques of _________ and ________ almost engulf the important style.
adobe and wood
The francophile third president of the united states, was influential in this respect.
Work: Virginia capitol
Thomas Jefferson.
Influenced architecture of Boston during Federal period. Boston, Philadelphia and New York all developed local variants of the English brick or stone terrace.
Robert Adam
Father of American Architecture
Benjamin Latrobe
introduced diagonal axes and other devices from European town known as “L’enfant Plan”
Pierre L’enfant
Rio de janeiro
A.J.V Grandjean de Montigny
Santiago
C.F Brunet-Debaines
British Architect who emigrated to the united states and became most famous for his gothic revival churches.
Richard Upjohn
was not formally trained as an architect but his ability and interest in building design were nurtured through his cultivated upbringing
James Renwick jr.
More popular in the united states was the _______ or “________” villa style associated with A.J. Davis and the landscapist Andrew Jackson Downing.
Picturesque or “gardenesque”
Method of wood construction used primarily in Scandinavia, Canada, and the United States
Balloon Framing
The first American to attend the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Richard Morris Hunt
Shingle style is sometimes called the _______.
Queen Anne
Represents a cofluence of commercial necessity and technical innovation.
Skyscrapers
Is durable, reliable, cost-effective, sustainable option for low-rise, mid-rise, and high-rise building projects
Steel framing
is an exterior covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, instead serving to protect the interior of the building from the elements.
Curtain wall
This innovation allowed for taller buildings to be constructed as the hydraulic system greatly increased the lifting capacity of ___________.
elevators
hydraulic elevator was invented by ________.
Elisha Otis (1853)
