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Art Nouveau movement in Austria
Sezessione
Art Nouveau movement in Spain
Modernismo
Art Nouveau movement in France
Le Modernde Style
Art Nouveau movement in Germany
Jugendstil
Art Nouveau movement in Italy
Stile Floreale
The movement in the decorative arts
and architecture originated in the
1920s. The distinguishing features of
the style are simple, clean shapes, often
with a “streamlined” look; ornament
that is geometric or stylized from
representational forms; and unusually
varied, often expensive materials.
Art deco
Considered to be founded by William Le
Baron Jenney with no unified set of
principles among it members who
focused on high-rise development. The
key characteristics during this period
are the use of new foundation
techniques and metal skeleton frames
that allowed for the construction of
skyscrapers
Chicago School of Architecture
Its distinguishing ornamental
characteristic is the undulating
asymmetrical line that is elegant and
graceful or infused with a powerfully
rhythmic and whiplike force
Art nouveau
Characterized by oak frames, clapboard
siding, central chimneys with multiple
fues so that fire could be lit in multuple
rooms on each floor
New England colonial architecture
Characterized by centrally located front
door, evenly spaced double-hung
windows and simple side-gabled roof
New England colonial architecture
Characterized by gambrel roof based on
prototypes in Flanders and Holland
Dutch colonial architecture
Characterized by round logs with
protruding ends, from which derived
the American log cabin design
Swedish colonial architecture
Characterized by white stucco walls,
red clay roof tiles and rustic appearance
Spanish Colonial architecture
Architecture used by the first settlers in
North America, resulting to a diverse
early architecture since each group
brought with them the style and
building practices of their mother
country and adapted it to the conditions
of their new homeland
Colonial architecture
Architectural styles used in English
colonies in America labelled after the
three English monarchs George I, II and
III and encompassed three distinct
styles - Wren’s Baroque idiom,
Palladian style of Renaissance
architecture, and Neoclassical style
American Georgian architecture
Sprouted new building types such as
the industrial buildings, warehouses,
railways and transport stations, and
bridges
Industrial Revolution
Biggest impact in architecture is massproduction of iron and later steel. It
became an economically plausible
building material & tool. Application of
iron, and particularly steel, to
architecture greatly expanded the
structural capabilities of existing
materials and created new ones.
Industrial Revolution
An expression of Japan’s desire for
genuine and lasting peace, the site of
this structure was where the bomb has
directly hit so its primary museum in
the park is dedicated to educate the
visitors about the bomb. The Plaza can
congregate up to 50,000 people around
the monument
Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Built for the 1964 Summer Olympic
Games housing swimming pools and
diving areas. Its dynamically suspended
roof and rough materials form one of
the most iconic building profiles
globally. It is inspired by Frei Otto’s
Arena for the Olympic Stadium in
Munich
Yoyogi National Stadium
America’s most famous house which is
above a mountain cataract on a rocky
hillside deep in the forest of
Southwestern Pennsylvania. Its
architect rejected a site that presented a
conventional view of the waterfall and
instead, audaciously offered to make
the house part of it.
Kaufman House
It hosted the main events for the 2009
World Games. The stadium is an open
circle with a question mark that is often
compared with the symbol of a dragon
wagging his tail. The solar panels gave
the roof a scaly appearance similar to a
metallic snakeskin, prompting locals to
nickname it the “glass snake” and the
“dragon’s tail”.
National Museum in Kaohsiung
Temporarily built to replace the original
structure damaged during a 2011
earthquake. The design features a
triangular structure with a large stained
glass window and can accommodate up
to 700 people.
Cardboard Cathedral
