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American Architecture
& Decorative Arts
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General References
The Built Environment
Perhaps one of the best planning and architecture sites available
online. Cyburbia provides current news, as well as links to a borad range of
online resources.
Site provided by the University of California, Berkeley. The
site offers information on a borad range of architectural and building construction
topics, including benchmarking, underfloor air, mixed mode ventilation, and
occupant feedback
Architects
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Robert
Adam (Neo-classicism)
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Sir Christopher Wren
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William Butterfield (Gothic Revival/British)
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Alexander Jackson Davis (Gothic Revival)
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Thomas Jefferson (Jeffersonian Federal)
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Frank
Furness (Philadelphia School--Romanesque & Shingle Style)
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Frank Lloyd
Wright
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Wilson
Eyre (Philadelphia, 1858-1944)
Historic Places
Articles of Interest
Native American Architecture
Early American (Post & Beam Construction)
Early American (Dutch, Dutch Colonial,
and Colonial)
Georgian & Georgian Colonial (1690-1790)
Federal (1790-1830)
Neoclassical (1780-1850)
Greek Revival (1820-1860)
Gothic Revival (1830-1870)
Egyptian Revival (1820-1850 / Resurrected
in the 1920s)
Victorian: Eclectic (1875-1920), Gothic
(1865-1880)
Italianate & Italian Villa (1840-1890)
Second Empire (1855-1885) (Baroque)
Stick (1860-1880) -- designed by Andrew
Jackson Downing
Richardson Romanesque (1870-1900)
Queen Anne (1870-1910)
Beaux-Arts Classicism (Academic Classicism)
(1885-1920)
Shingle Style (1874-Present)
Chicago School (1885-1915)
Colonial Revival (1890-Present)
New York Style Skyscrapers (1875-1910)
Bungalow Arts & Crafts (1890-1920)
Gothic (Collegiate Gothic) (1885-1930)
Prairie School / Frank Lloyd Wright
(1895-1930)
Georgian Revival
American Foursquare (1895-1930)
Roadside Architecture and other assorted
attractions
Note: A discussion
of American architecture isn't complete without a nod to those structures within
the built environment more likely to be described as "kitsch" rather
than in more traditional architectural terms.
Historic Preservation and the Problem
with Postwar Domestic Architecture
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