21. Modern Meditteranean
This style aims to emulate the feeling of being in a luxurious Mediterranean villa. It became popularized during the 1920s when a cultural obsession with wealth and leisure led to a boom in the seaside. Mediterranean Revival homes are unique in that they borrow influences from a few different cultures in that geographic region. In particular, Italian and Spanish are seen most commonly. Defining features that tie them all together. They are as follows:
Exterior Features
- Sprawling, symmetrical façades
- Stucco exteriors
- Low-pitched, tile roofs
- Arched windows and doorways
- Wrought-iron balconies and window grilles
- European-style gardens or courtyards
Interior Features
- One to two stories
- Rectangular floor plan
- High ceilings
- Heavy use of wood and patterned tile
- Designed to let breezes flow through the house
22. Miesian
Ludwig Mies van der rohe sought to establish his own particular architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. He created his own twentieth-century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity. His mature buildings made use of modern materials such as industrial steel and plate glass to define interior spaces, as also conducted by other modernist architects in the 1920’s and 1930’s such as Richard Neutra. Mies strove toward an architecture with a minimal framework of structural order balanced against the implied freedom of unobstructed free-flowing open space.
23. Organic
The term “organic architecture” was coined by Frank Lloyd Wright. Organic architecture is a philosophy of architecture that promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world. This is achieved through design approaches that aim to be sympathetic and well-integrated with a site, so buildings, furnishings, and surroundings become part of a unified, interrelated composition. Few important elements of organicity:
- Simplicity and repose are important qualities to assess the value of architecture. Thus, there is a need to simplify the design of the structure, limiting the number of distinct rooms by instead rethinking them as open spaces.
- Doors, windows, and furniture should blend with the ornamentation of the structure.
- A building should appear to grow indigenously from its site and the structure should appear as if created by nature itself.
- The color of fields and woods should inspire the main coloring of the building to manifest natural aesthetics.
24. New Formalist
New Formalism is an architectural style that emerged in the United States during the mid-1950s and flowered in the 1960s. Buildings designed in that style exhibited many Classical elements including strict symmetrical elevations, building proportion and scale, Classical columns, highly stylized entablatures, and colonnades. Common features of the New Formalism style, include:
- Use of traditionally rich materials, such as travertine, marble, and granite or man-made materials that mimic their luxurious qualities
- Buildings usually set on a podium
- Designed to achieve modern monumentality
- Embraces classical precedents, such as arches, colonnades, classical columns, and entablatures
- Smooth wall surfaces
- Delicacy of details
- Formal landscape; use of pools, fountains, sculpture within a central plaza
25. Bauhaus
The Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. The German term Bauhaus—literally “building a house”—was understood as meaning “School of Building. Nonetheless, it was founded upon the idea of creating a Gesamtkunstwerk (“‘total’ work of art”) in which all the arts, including architecture, would eventually be brought together. The Bauhaus style later became one of the most influential currents in modern design, Modernist architecture and art, design, and architectural education.
5characteristics of Bauhaus art, architecture and design
- Form follows function.
- True materials: materials should reflect the true nature of objects and buildings.
- Minimalist style.
- Gesamtkunstwerk: a synthesis of arts – to modern times. Gesamtkunstwerk combines multiple art forms such as fine and decorative arts unified through architecture in the case of Bauhaus.
- Uniting art and technology.
26. Expressionist
Expressionist architecture is an architectural movement in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts that especially developed and dominated in Germany. Brick Expressionism is a special variant of this movement in western and northern Germany and in The Netherlands (Amsterdam School). Expressionist architecture is one of the three dominant styles of Modern architecture. Though containing a great variety and differentiation, many points can be found as recurring in works of Expressionist architecture, and are evident in some degree in each of its works.
- Distortion of form for an emotional effect.
- Subordination of realism to the symbolic or stylistic expression of inner experience.
- An underlying effort at achieving the new, original, and visionary.
- Often hybrid solutions, irreducible to a single concept.
- Themes of natural romantic phenomena, such as caves, mountains, lightning, crystal, and rock formations.] As such it is more mineral and elemental than florid and organic which characterized its close contemporary art nouveau.
- Uses creative potential of artisan craftsmanship.
- Tendency more towards the gothic than the classical. Expressionist architecture also tends more towards the Romanesque and the rococo than the classical.
- The conception of architecture as a work of art.
27. Front Facade Design
The front facade is probably the most important part of every house design. Since it is facing a public area, it is essential to make sure that the house blends well with the surrounding and fits in the neighborhood in general.
28. Facing The Backyard
Even though the front facade is of somewhat greater importance when it comes to a house design, the backyard facade is far from being unimportant. This type of modern house style has a special emphasis on the backside of the house which may be complemented by terraces, swimming pools, and gardens.
29. Green Roof
Green roofs are often being used as a key element in sustainable housing. Besides being good for the environment and your home’s overall sustainability, they also add value to the visual appearance of the house.
30. Big Modern House
While big modern houses might not be everyone’s cup of tea, they can be really interesting and impressive pieces of architecture. The design of the house is also affected by the amount of area used. The big area can result in a more spacious and expanded design.
