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Common terms and phrasesAcademic Eclectic aesthetic Alexander Jackson Davis AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE Anasazi ancient arch architects architectural ideas architectural styles architectural traditions Arts and Crafts Beaux-Arts began Bernard Maybeck British building built central Chicago church cities civilization Classical elements Classical language colonies columns concept construction cultural and architectural decoration derived developed drawing by author earlier eighteenth century elements England English Baroque Europe European eventually expression fashion frame Frank Lloyd Wright French geometrical Gothic Revival Greek Greek Revival Henry Hobson Richardson HISTORY OF AMERICAN horizontal individual industrial Italian land later masonry medieval middle modern Modernist movement Native American natural nineteenth century ornament Palladian period picturesque pit houses political popular post-war projects Pugin rational region Renaissance Revolution Richard Norman Shaw Roman Romanesque roof shapes Shingle Style social society Spanish structure stylistic temple tower towns traditional styles turned vernacular visual wall Western wooden References to this bookFrom other books
From Google ScholarArchitecture: An OverviewColonial America Course OutineReserve Readings The Influence Of Local And Imported Factors On The Design And ...NANCY E CROWLEY - 2005 Theory and Practice in the Study of Technological SystemsWilliam M Shields - 2007 Bibliographic information
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