decor edwardian - 20s -30s

shingle style

the craftsman

gustav stickley

blacker house

gamble house

louis comfort tiffany

bungalow

guiding force: English Arts and Crafts movement; Japanese architecture

• low-slung, 1 to 1 ½ story, cottage-like

• low-pitched roofs, usually gabled with overhanging eaves

• double-hung sash windows

• usually built on stone bases; wood construction, sometimes brick, shingles

• heavy porches supported by chunky square columns

• harmony of indoors and outdoors; homes become part of surroundings

• natural materials, colors

• interiors feature hand-polished woods (oak, teak, mahogany)

• built-in features; leaded or stained glass

•Other variations included Spanish styles and English Tudor

bungalow

guiding force: English Arts and Crafts movement; Japanese architecture

• low-slung, 1 to 1 ½ story, cottage-like

• low-pitched roofs, usually gabled with overhanging eaves

• double-hung sash windows

• usually built on stone bases; wood construction, sometimes brick, shingles

• heavy porches supported by chunky square columns

• harmony of indoors and outdoors; homes become part of surroundings

• natural materials, colors

• interiors feature hand-polished woods (oak, teak, mahogany)

• built-in features; leaded or stained glass

•Other variations included Spanish styles and English Tudor

frank lloyd wright

prairie style - willits house

Overwhelming use of horizontal lines; asymmetrical

• Roofs are dominate, extending beyond the walls; usually hipped with low pitches

• Casement windows arranged in horizontal strips; small panes sometimes with stained glass

• Brick most common construction material; some built of wood or stucco

• Rooms flow from one to another; central hearth

• Rarely more than two stories; no basements or attics

• Massive chimneys, anchoring house to ground

•Doorways not always prominent or facing streets; sometimes hard to identify;

often with a “porte-cochere”

• Neutral colors or red, yellow or tan bricks

• Leading architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

willits house - prairie house

robie house

robie house

larkin building

unity temple

french style

georgian revival

Georgian details

• Shutters

• Symmetrical

• Dormer Windows

• Pediments

• Red brick w/ white trim or

white w/green or gray trim

colonial revival

spanish colonial revival

Clay tiles

• Stucco

• Decorative ironwork

• Pitched roofs

monterey style

Large balconies/verandas

with simple wooden railings

glasgow school of art

charles rennie mackintosh

falling water

charles greene & henry greene

gamble house

cubism

transportation “streamline”

glasgow school of art, library

mackintosh furniture

AEG turbine factory

fagus factory eduard werner

biltmore erstate

biltmore estate

the breakers

wainwright building - louis sullivan

guaranty building

guaranty building

carson pirie scott co.

flatiron building

woolworth building

woolworth building

bauhaus

cesca chair

wassily chair - marcel breuer

barcelona chair

le corbusier

villa savoye

villa savoye

international style

walter gropius

lovell beach house - richard neutra

lovell beach house - richard neutra

chrysler building

empire state building

la apartment building - streamlining

falling water

charles ennis house

imperial hotel tokyo

de stijl - piet mondrian

shaker

alvar aalto finland

richard morris hunt

Pennsylvania station - mckim, mead and white

william jenny - home insurance company