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CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE
INSTRUCTOR: SARAH OOSTERHUIS
WEST ADA SCHOOL DISTRICT, MERIDIAN, ID
Architectural Styles
Student Slides
Neo-Eclectic Neolithic Normandy
Prairie Style Renaissance
Queen Anne Ranch
NEO-ECLECTIC
NEO-ECLECTIC
Neo-Eclectic 1980-Present McMansions
• rejection of the modernist tendencies found in ranch, bi-level and split level housing.
• widespread in newer residential developments.
• Incorporate architectural elements from numerous styles
• colonial revival, craftsman, tudor, cape cod, mission...
Neo-Eclectic Primary Stylistic Features
• Two or more stories.
• Imitated historic styles.
• Multiple roof lines.
• Brick or stone veneer.
• Large footprint.
• Open interior spaces.
Neo-Eclectic Secondary Stylistic Features
• No porches.
• Walkways to driveway.
• Unfinished attics.
• Vinyl windows.
• Mixed synthetic materials.
• Multi-car garage.
NEOLITHIC
NEOLITHIC
• Housing and shelter from approximately 10,000 to 2,000 BC, the Neolithic period.
• Location: southwest Asia
• People of the Americas and the Pacific remained at the Neolithic level of technology
up until the time of European contact.
NORMANDY
PRAIRIE STYLE
PRAIRIE STYLE
• Developed by Frank Lloyd Wright
• Early 1900s
• Typically residential structures
• One to two stories
• Materials varied:
– Plaster with wood trim
– Horizontal board and batten
siding
– Concrete block
• Located across U.S.
Prairie Style Architecture
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Falling Water
Robie House
Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, NY
Architect : Frank Lloyd Wright
Characteristics of Prairie Style
Low pitched roof
Often hip roof
Central chimney
Wide overhanging eaves
The Prairie Style is dominated by low horizontal lines.
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Background Info
• 1890’s-1920’s
• 1-3 stories
• Flat overhanging roofs
• Made of Stone, cement, and wood
• The location is mostly north America, but was also very popular in
western Europe and Australia, and originated in Chicago
Features
• Big flat overhanging roofs
• They usually have many windows
• They usually have large landscapes with many
Rocks and plantations
• Mostly all consisted of horizontal lines
Styles
• Architects wanted to create a design that resembled America. Specifically the northwest.
• They were usually up to 3 stories, sometimes with a loft and/or a basement
• They were meant to blend in with the flat landscape around them
• Usually centered around a central chimney
• They were more of an open style kind of house instead of more defined and cluttered rooms
Far overhanging eaves
Flat low profile roofs
Many horizontal lines
Usually many plantions
RENAISSANCE
Architecture
• Between 15th and 17th centuries in Europe
• Based off Roman and Greek architecture
• Emphasis on symmetry, geometric figures, and proportion
• Domes-arches-columns
• Artistic amount of detail in the building’s features
Architects
• Filippo Brunelleschi: dome of Florence cathedral
• Leon Battista Alberti: De re Aedificatoria, his famous book.
• Raphael: chief architect for St. Peters, Palazzo Pandolfini
• Andrea Palladio: Domestic architecture, designs later used in England and southern plantations called Palladian architecture
Works of the Renaissance
• Florence cathedral (Italy)
• St. Peter’s Basilica (Vatican city)
• Krasiczyn castle (Poland)
QUEEN ANNE
HighlightsBecame fashionable in 1880’s and peaked through 1900’s during industrial revolution and lasted
a decade
Typically 2 to 3 stories high
Typically made of wood and decorated with patterned brick/stone, wood shingles, slate, stucco,
and terracotta panels.
Common in Europe and the eastern U.S.
Distinctive features include:
Roof: steeply pitched and complex, includes gables, dormers and turrets
Windows: bay windows and oriels, typically simple
Entrance: wrap around porches, decorative columns, brackets or ornaments
Doors: carved decorations.
Chimney: Elaborate decorative chimneys
Towers: square, round or polygonal, capped with a conical, tent, domed, or other shaped roof and
finished off with slate shingles and a copper finial ornament.
HighlightsElements and Principles
Texture was very much used (wood shingles and roof)
Asymmetrical balance
These houses were typically very colorful
Lots of vertical lines presenting strength
Some horizontal lines showing calmness
Form and shape very prominent with windows and decor
Mostly residential
Started by Richard Norman Shaw in England
Most common in Washington DC and surrounding areas, although they can be found pretty much
anywhere in the U.S as well as England
Local Examples1301 N 16th St, Boise, ID (1905)
1409 N Harrison Blvd, Boise, ID (1908)
1601 N 7th St, Boise, ID (1900)
RANCH
RANCH HOMES
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