Names of House styles
The house that time forgot: Red brick semi is frozen in the 1920s
History of architecture in India
Taj Mahal The Taj Mahal in Agra is indisputably the most famous example of Mughal architecture. Described by Rabindranath Tagore as a tear on the face of eternity , it is in popular imagination a veritable wonder of the world . The white-splendored tomb was built by Emperor Shah Jahan in the memory…
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California style House
From the colonial cottages of New England to the villas of the Mediterranean, distinct architecture can define geographical regions. In October of 1954 s annual home section, Popular Mechanics paid homage to California-style homes, an inventive and modern strain of design that was quickly spreading from…
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Gothic style Architecture
Characteristics of Gothic Architecture Gothic art evolved out of Romanesque art and lasted from the mid-12th century up to the late 16th century in some areas of Germany. Architecture was the main art form of the Gothic, and the main structural characteristics of Gothic architectural design stemmed from…
Georgian buildings
Georgian is an adjective usually associated in the popular mind with refined furniture, elegant clothes, buildings of deceptive simplicity, decorous prose, mellifluous Classical music and country houses set in agreeably designed landscapes. When we talk of Georgian Architecture we usually think of dignified, often symmetrical facades of brick, elegant sash-windows, a door case usually…
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Greek Revival Homes
Western Civilization has been fascinated with Greek culture and architecture for millennia. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, interest in the Greek style of architecture in Europe and the United States was widespread. Since New Orleans was a French and Spanish city (rather than having British roots) Continental influences were strong, and by the 1820s, many buildings and…
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French Tudor Architecture
In a renovation, the old saw measure twice, cut once still proves sharp. For Los Angeles interior designer Norm Wogan, these are words to live by. His goal in revamping his 1926 Tudor Revival home in an Old World style was a redo that would be the house s first and its last; a Tudor that is as toothsome as it is timeless. I love English and European antiques and an Old World…
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