Famous Architecture Styles and Architects Read through this packet with your group and discuss the d

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Famous Architecture Styles and ArchitectsRead
through this packet with your group and discuss
the differences in each style of architecture.
Pay special attention to the windows and roofs of
each style. How are they different? Similar?
What materials are used? Is it a simple style or
does it have a lot of ornamentation (decorative
details)?
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Gothic

• High ceilings,
• Sharp spires, and tall narrow windows
• Popular in medieval times, this style was
  reintroduced in the 1800-1900s in France and
  England.
• Famous architects often unknown, worked for
  wealthy European patrons

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Romanesque Revival

• Imitates medieval architecture
• Lots of arches
• Rows of bricks or stone featured as decoration
• Famous architects Henry Hobson Richardson

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Arts and Crafts

• Inspired by gothic styles
• Frequently had different sizes and styles of
  window on the same wall
• Emphasis on the natural color of building
  materials
• Famous Architects William Morris, Phillip Webb

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Prairie School

• Bold horizontal lines
• Open planes (shape)
• Built of natural materials
• Not a lot of extra decoration
• Famous architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Barry
  Byrne

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Art Nouveau

• Long flowing lines
• Curving roof
• Designed to look like plants or flowers
• Famous architects Emile André, Hector Guimard

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Art Deco

• Uses lots of steel and stained glass
• Included geometric shapes such as trapezoids,
  zigzags and sunbursts
• Emphasis on symmetry
• Celebrates machine age
• Famous architects
• Famous architects Albert Anis, Charles Holden

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Modern

• Emphasis on the function of the building rather
  than form
• Rejects extra decoration
• Uses clean lines, stainles steel, glass
• Used for many sky scrapers
• Famous architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,

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Postmodern

• Rejects modern style of simple lines
• Uses geometric shapes and surface texture for
  decoration
• A recent architecture movement
• Use of simple pillars
• Famous architects
• Ricardo Bofill, Charles Willard Moore