ARCHITECTUAL STYLES BY: KYA SANNER
GEORGIAN The Georgian style is highly variable, but marked by symmetry and proportion based on the classical architecture of Greece and Rome, as revived in Renaissance architecture. Georgian is a South Caucasian or Kartvelian language. It is spoken mainly in Georgia, where it is the official language, and also in Russia,
FEDERAL Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815. This style shares its name with its era, the Federalist Era.
GREEK REVIVAL The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. It revived the style of ancient Greek architecture, in particular the Greek temple, with varying degrees of thoroughness and consistency.
ITALIANATE Materials. Brick and wood clapboard were the most common building materials used for Italianate homes with brick being more expensive. The ornamentation was typically wood and occasionally the brick homes had elaborate, durable cast iron window and door hoods. Italianates have a plain shape and are usually two or three stories tall. Sloping roofs. Italianate houses are easily distinguished by their gently sloping roofs and deep overhanging eaves, which are seemingly supported by a row of decorative brackets, or corbels.
VICTORIAN Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. Victorian refers to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), called the Victorian era, during which period the styles known as Victorian were used in construction.
PRAIRE Prairie style, in architecture, American style exemplified by the low-lying “prairie houses� such as Robie House (1908) that were for the most part built in the Midwest between 1900 and 1917 by Frank Lloyd Wright.
CRAFTSMAN A craftsman-style exterior makes a big statement Typically built from stone, brick, and real wood, craftsman style houses are most well-known for their low-pitched overhanging roofs and column-heavy front porches.
RANCH A rambler, also known as a ranch-style house, is a domestic architectural style that originated in the U.S. in the 1920s but was made most popular between the 1940s and 1970s. Ramblers are known for their long, low profile and minimal exterior and interior decoration
A-FRAME An A-frame house or other A-frame building is an architectural house or building style featuring steeply-angled sides (roofline) that usually begin at or near the foundation line, and meet at the top in the shape of the letter A. An A-frame ceiling can be open to the top rafters.
SHED Shed Style refers to a style of architecture that makes use of single-sloped roofs (commonly called “shed roofs�). The style originated from the designs of architects Charles Willard Moore and Robert Venturi in the 1960s. ... Shed style architecture became very popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
Geodesic Domes used for houses are usually arrays of triangles that form three-or five-eighths of a geodesic sphere. This makes geodesic dome buildings highly resistant to such forces as snow coverings, earthquakes, wind, and even tornadoes. A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron. The triangular elements of the dome are structurally rigid and distribute the structural stress throughout the structure, making geodesic domes able to withstand very heavy loads for their size.