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3800 BCE
Adobe
- Soil, water, and straw make up the house
- Mud walls
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Spanish Stucco
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English Half Timber
- Originally made of squared oak timbers joined by mortises, tenons, and wooden pegs;
- 20th century a modified version of the method was still being used
- External and internal walls are constructed of timber frames and the spaces between the structural members are filled with such materials as brick, plaster, or wattle and daub.
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Swedish Log Cabin
Log structures have provided people with shelters for thousands of years.The first log cabins in America were actually constructed by emigrants from Finland and Sweden in the mid-1600
- only one room
- was only 10-12 feet wide to 20 feet long
- had a stone fireplace -
Hogan
- Different shapes (rounded, square)
- Timber or stone walls
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French provincial
- Delicate, dignified appearance
- Symmetrical
- Windows are a dominate part of the design
- Tops of windows break into eaves
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English Saltbox
- the saltbox takes it name from a popular wooden box used to store salt in
- John Adams
- flat front central chimney
- asymmetry roof
- low rear roofline
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French Normandy
- french settled along rivers where this style of home was first built and later brought to the USA by the Huguenots
- tall, steeply pinched hipped roofs
- arched door opening
- mixed material
- large chimney
- brick
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Georgian
- It was adapted from English architecture. It is called georgian because it was popular during the era when King George I, II and III ruled England.
- Have simple exterior lines
- Dignified appearances and symmetry
- Windows with small panes of glass and either gable or hip roofs.
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Tidewater
Large wrap around porches and broad hipped roof with no interruption -
Victorian
- Named after nQueen Vicoria of England
- Haunted Houses and Horror Movies
- Decortivve Trim
- High Porches
- Steep roofs
- tall windows
- Dark Stairways
- Long halls
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Adams
- evolved from Georgian
- Influenced from British
- Robert Adam
- Very popular in England
- boxlike shape
- 2 stories
- flat roof
- symmertical
- porch with collums
- pediments
- rooflike decorations
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German
- middle ages
- all in one house and would keep lifestalk in the house
- more than one story
- tall roof
- dark wood
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Early Classic Revival
- Near the end of the 18th Century people had an interest in ancient Greek and Roman history. During this time the Early Classic Revival formed by architects creating a house that reflected the ancient styles. The popularity of the house really took off after Thomas Jefferson promoted the style.
- Made of Brick, Stone, & Wood, Large Front Porch, Rectangular shape, Four Front Columns
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French Manor
- Architects traveled to greece in the 1920’s and brought back detailed drawings so they could mimic those designs in there own homes.
- Large porches and many windows covering all sides of the home.
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Gothic Revival
- This style first was introduced by the northeast area and was carried over. The gothic revival homes that are still around are being preserved because many are made with different types of materials.
- Very pointed roofs and many slim chimneys.
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English Cape Cod
- modeled their homes after the half-timbered houses of their English homeland, but adapted the style to the stormy weather.
- Steep roof
- Center chimney
- Shingle
- Windows often go to the roofline
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Southern Colonial
- Started in the Southern colonies, known as the Southern part of Texas, Florida, and even Virginia
- Gable Roofs, symmetrical, Framed doorways, shutters, porches, and columns
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Dutch Colonial
- colonial style
- on trend
- coming back to style
- gambrel roof
- grand entrances
- sidelights
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Tudor
- Tudor style fell out of popularity around WW11 when a resurgence of patriotism encouraged an appreciation for a more American - - Style, that is Conial Revival.
- Gable roofs
- Groupings of windows
- Decorative half-timbering
- Stucco
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Bunglow
first built in India
were scattered here and there in New England low pitched roof lines
overhanging eves
front proch
small interiors
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English Garrison
- The word Garrison comes from the military
- Usually found in places of war (thats why the walls were so thick and the shape was cubed)
- The second floor is larger than the first stacked
- many windows
- exterior chimney
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Split Level
The style gained popularity in North America during the mid-20 century, as the suburbs expanded, beginning in the years after WW2, and has remained popular.
Floor levels are staggered. There are typically two short sets of stairs, one funning upward to a bedroom level, and one going downward toward a basement area -
Prairie
- married to the ground
- long and low landscape
- midwest
- honrizontal
- honrizonal lines
- low roofs
- one or two story
- central chimmney
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International Style
- The first one was built in 1920 by Walter Gropius in Germnay. He wanted to build a house with more geometrical shapes and more movement
- windows, natural light, glass and steal, open interior space, technology, artistic expression, new archtecture, geometrical shapes
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Ranch
Ideas and styles with notions of the American Western period of wide open spaces to create a very informal and casual living style. Originated in the U.S
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Solar
The techniques of passive solar building design were practiced for thousands of years, by necessity, before the advent of mechanical heating and cooling. It has remained a traditional part of vernacular architecture in many countries. -
Earth Sheltered
- Earth Sheltered started in the 1800s but have become more popular in modern times partly underground
built into a hill or have soil compacted against the side of the building
many are solar powered
