CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

INSTRUCTOR: SARAH OOSTERHUIS

WEST ADA SCHOOL DISTRICT, MERIDIAN, ID

Architectural Styles

Student Slides

Neo-Eclectic Neolithic Normandy

Prairie Style Renaissance

Queen Anne Ranch

NEO-ECLECTIC

NEO-ECLECTIC

Neo-Eclectic 1980-Present McMansions

• rejection of the modernist tendencies found in ranch, bi-level and split level housing.

• widespread in newer residential developments.

• Incorporate architectural elements from numerous styles

• colonial revival, craftsman, tudor, cape cod, mission...

Neo-Eclectic Primary Stylistic Features

• Two or more stories.

• Imitated historic styles.

• Multiple roof lines.

• Brick or stone veneer.

• Large footprint.

• Open interior spaces.

Neo-Eclectic Secondary Stylistic Features

• No porches.

• Walkways to driveway.

• Unfinished attics.

• Vinyl windows.

• Mixed synthetic materials.

• Multi-car garage.

NEOLITHIC

NEOLITHIC

• Housing and shelter from approximately 10,000 to 2,000 BC, the Neolithic period.

• Location: southwest Asia

• People of the Americas and the Pacific remained at the Neolithic level of technology

up until the time of European contact.

NORMANDY

PRAIRIE STYLE

PRAIRIE STYLE

• Developed by Frank Lloyd Wright

• Early 1900s

• Typically residential structures

• One to two stories

• Materials varied:

– Plaster with wood trim

– Horizontal board and batten

siding

– Concrete block

• Located across U.S.

Prairie Style Architecture

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Falling Water

Robie House

Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, NY

Architect : Frank Lloyd Wright

Characteristics of Prairie Style

Low pitched roof

Often hip roof

Central chimney

Wide overhanging eaves

The Prairie Style is dominated by low horizontal lines.

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Background Info

• 1890’s-1920’s

• 1-3 stories

• Flat overhanging roofs

• Made of Stone, cement, and wood

• The location is mostly north America, but was also very popular in

western Europe and Australia, and originated in Chicago

Features

• Big flat overhanging roofs

• They usually have many windows

• They usually have large landscapes with many

Rocks and plantations

• Mostly all consisted of horizontal lines

Styles

• Architects wanted to create a design that resembled America. Specifically the northwest.

• They were usually up to 3 stories, sometimes with a loft and/or a basement

• They were meant to blend in with the flat landscape around them

• Usually centered around a central chimney

• They were more of an open style kind of house instead of more defined and cluttered rooms

Far overhanging eaves

Flat low profile roofs

Many horizontal lines

Usually many plantions

RENAISSANCE

Architecture

• Between 15th and 17th centuries in Europe

• Based off Roman and Greek architecture

• Emphasis on symmetry, geometric figures, and proportion

• Domes-arches-columns

• Artistic amount of detail in the building’s features

Architects

• Filippo Brunelleschi: dome of Florence cathedral

• Leon Battista Alberti: De re Aedificatoria, his famous book.

• Raphael: chief architect for St. Peters, Palazzo Pandolfini

• Andrea Palladio: Domestic architecture, designs later used in England and southern plantations called Palladian architecture

Works of the Renaissance

• Florence cathedral (Italy)

• St. Peter’s Basilica (Vatican city)

• Krasiczyn castle (Poland)

QUEEN ANNE

HighlightsBecame fashionable in 1880’s and peaked through 1900’s during industrial revolution and lasted

a decade

Typically 2 to 3 stories high

Typically made of wood and decorated with patterned brick/stone, wood shingles, slate, stucco,

and terracotta panels.

Common in Europe and the eastern U.S.

Distinctive features include:

Roof: steeply pitched and complex, includes gables, dormers and turrets

Windows: bay windows and oriels, typically simple

Entrance: wrap around porches, decorative columns, brackets or ornaments

Doors: carved decorations.

Chimney: Elaborate decorative chimneys

Towers: square, round or polygonal, capped with a conical, tent, domed, or other shaped roof and

finished off with slate shingles and a copper finial ornament.

HighlightsElements and Principles

Texture was very much used (wood shingles and roof)

Asymmetrical balance

These houses were typically very colorful

Lots of vertical lines presenting strength

Some horizontal lines showing calmness

Form and shape very prominent with windows and decor

Mostly residential

Started by Richard Norman Shaw in England

Most common in Washington DC and surrounding areas, although they can be found pretty much

anywhere in the U.S as well as England

Local Examples1301 N 16th St, Boise, ID (1905)

1409 N Harrison Blvd, Boise, ID (1908)

1601 N 7th St, Boise, ID (1900)

RANCH

RANCH HOMES