American architectural styles

Architecture is one of the great arts of the world. It expresses a designer’s style and interests, and can also show the style of the city or country it is in. And individual architects, like Frank Lloyd Wright, do this very well. How was Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture influential today’s world? Frank Lloyd Wright was influential to today’s architecture because helped free builders from traditional European architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8, 1867, and was a child of Anna Lloyd

tastes. De Wolfe, McMillen, and Draper all had prominent careers from the mid 1800’s until the early to mid 1900’s. Most of their work was for the rich and famous in American high societies. Elsie de Wolfe was born in New York City in 1865. Although said to be an ugly little girl, from a young age she wowed people with her amazing sense style in clothing. She was a professional actress and was given the unique privilege to choose her own wardrobe for most of her roles. By 1877, de Wolfe had settled into

"In metropolises it was 'not the thing' to arrive early at the opera; and what was or was not 'the thing' played a part as important in Newland Archer's New York as the inscrutable totem errors that had ruled the destinies of his forefathers thousands of years ago"-Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence Societies, like houses and businesses are built a certain way. They each have a certain way of functioning and placing some people above others. Throughout history, there are plenty examples of this

the revitalizing economic policies of the Reagan Era, Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry was able to shatter the established architectural norm of the modern era and pen an iconoclastic style called deconstructivism in the postmodern 1980s, leaving a resounding legacy in the architecture industry. The social and political debris remaining by the end of World War II and the Cold War stifled the possibility of a new architectural movement. The revolution of modernism, a form of architecture in

several niches 9 . Both building have a symmetrical layout. There have many architectural features that are very similar as Michelangelo, one of the architects of St. Peters Basilica, studied the Pantheon before making designs 6 ; he based the St Peters Basilica dome from the Pantheons’ dome. Both building reflected their societies’ wealth and symbolizes religion as both were used to honour gods.

This influence and style continued at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth Texas. Louis Kahn is a modern architect that designed the Kimbell Art Museum. Kahn emerged from the Beaux-Arts movement but became one of the foremost American Modernist architects of the 1950’s and 60’s (Kimball, 1990). Kahn created a building for the Kimbell Art Museum that also complimented the art and did not distract the viewer (Kimball, 1990). He was commissioned to design the Kimbell Art Museum from 1966-1972).

contributed to Dickey’s interest in Hawaiian architecture. He believes that with such unique weather condition and geographic location, Hawaiian architecture ought to have a distinctive style in order to cope with the weather. In 1926, Dickey declared that “Hawaiian architecture is a type distinctive to itself and Mediterranean style must be adapted to fit local conditions before they are at all suite to the islands” (“Famous Hawaii Architects”). In fact, the over-hanging roof with projecting eaves (the hut-like

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was one of the most well-known American architects of the early modern movement. His extensive portfolio of built works around the country demonstrates the many styles that he worked in over his important career, including his Prairie Style and his Usonian houses. He is important to the spread of modern architecture because of his large collection of iconic built works. Additionally, he trained many young architects that spread his design philosophies.1 Because of his

art in the form of structure. The Cathedrals were also status symbols. Towns and cities would build them to show how successful they were. The more elaborate the Cathedral, the more successful the town or city. This gave rise to the Gothic architectural style, which developed simultaneously across England, France, Germany, and Italy. The countries developed their own distinctive technique of Gothic design, which I shall compare and contrast

The Statue of Liberty combines architectural revivals in its pedestal, which was designed by “[t]he Paris-educated American architect” Richard Morris Hunt was named with neoclassical features (Bell and Abrams, 47). The pedestal “fully complemented – without rivaling – the majesty of the statue itself” (Bell and Abrams 47) although it is almost as high as the statue itself. The Statue has a height of X feet [confers X m] and the pedestal is eighty-nine feet [confers X m] (Baker 319) high. Besides