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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
