What's Your Favorite Architectural Style?
 

I've posted before that I like castles & cathedrals (esp. Gothic & perpendicular for the latter).
A friend of mine loves the Chicago School. I'm not a big fan, though my favorite building on my college campus is in that style.
My parents favor very modern styles, my mom especially. The more futuristic the better.

How about you?

- Jake

"A nice little Spanish apartment..." I'm baiting you, Le Riss. <3333

I never really thought about it before...but I guess I like older stuff...like from early America...I'm fascinated by Rochester and some of its older buildings - I think the Kodak building is amazing...not to mention the George Eastman house...very amazing....so I'm not sure what the name of the type of architecture is that I like...but I know what I like when I see it :nod: :D

"In our Spanish-style apartment..."

That will never not be funny to me :laugh: <333

Richardsonian Romanesq. followed VERY closely by Greek Revivial. I also LOVE Art Deco - but not as much as the former two. I am not into ultra modern, but have an appreciation for it.

Ultra modern. ;)

I'm partial to the Lego style myself.

OF COURSE!!!!!!!!!!! :laugh:

Art Deco. :)

Old styles..
 

Nothing like european castles.. I adore them. That's why I love England country. Leeds, Windsor, Blenheim, it's wonderful!! And towns like Cambridge or Stratford upon Avon..

About churches, Sevilla Cathedral, Vatican of course, Koln cathedral, and Cusco and Lima Cathedral!!!

And mosques and muslim architecture: Taj Mahal, Cairo mosques.

And the Royal Thai palace in Bangkok.

As you can see mopder architecture does not turn me on.

I like a few different styles, but my favorite is art deco.

Try a Roach Motel then. :lol:

- Jake

The East Coast has some great older buildings. :nod:

- Jake

I always guessed you live at Tara. ;)

- Jake

Are we talking Walk Astro on the treadmill modern?

- Jake

But your head is moveable, I hope. :shocked:

- Jake

This & Asian were my mom's favorites when I was little. I think I knew what Art Deco was before I was seven.

- Jake

I haven't been to England yet but when I was little I wanted to live in a big old Tudor house.
We'll have to plan a Ledgie excursion out there. Maybe if the Mac ever goes back. Christy, if you pay for me, I'll let you put my flights on your frequent flyer mileage. :angel: :wavey: :cool:

- Jake

And what else?

- Jake

Dang it, I was going to amend mine to say Art Deco as well. But then I'd have to agree with you, and we can't have that! ;) :)

So I'll go with Manuelino style. (And I'm not making that up).

Wow, a sign of the Apocolypse, right? ;)

What does Manuelino look like? I don't think I recognize it.

- Jake

I'd post a picture, but I am ashamed to admit I've never bothered to learn how to do that. Here's a description from Frommer's:

The style known as Manueline or Manuelino is unique to Portugal. It predominated between 1490 and 1520, and remains one of the most memorable art forms to have emerged from the country. It's named for Manuel I, who reigned from 1495 to 1521. When Dom Manuel I inaugurated the style, Manueline architecture was shockingly modern, a farsighted departure from the rigidity of medieval models. It originally decorated portals, porches, and interiors, mostly adorning old rather than new structures. The style marked a transition from the gothic to the Renaissance in Portugal.

Old-timers claim that Manuelino, also called Atlantic Gothic, derived from the sea, although some modern-day observers detect a surrealism that foreshadowed Salvador DalÃ*'s style. Everything about Manueline art is a celebration of seafaring ways. In Manuelino works, Christian iconography combines with shells, ropes, branches of coral, heraldic coats of arms, religious symbols, and imaginative waterborne shapes, as well as with Moorish themes.

Many monuments throughout the country -- notably the Monastery of Jerónimos in Belém, outside Lisbon -- offer examples of this style. Others are in the Azores and Madeira. Sometimes Manuelino is combined with the famous tile panels, as in Sintra's National Palace. The first Manueline building in Portugal was the classic Church of Jesus at Setúbal, south of Lisbon. Large pillars in the interior twist in spirals to support a flamboyant ribbed ceiling.

Thanks. Portugal looks beautiful in pictures, so I'm guessing I'd like this one.

- Jake

Jake, here's a link. This is the flagship, if you will, of buildings built in this style:

http://www.mosteirojeronimos.pt/index_mosteiro.html

What took you so long? :lol:

I have pretty ecletic tastes, so I also like southwest architecture, Tudor style homes, SOME modern styles and throw in a bit of Asian, too. :)

My favorite...
 

style of architecture is Art Deco/Neo-Classical and my fave architect was Frank Lloyd Wright...

Btw, I took Drafting/CAD for 8+ years in school so I was introduced to alot of different styles of architecture and I found Mr.Wright's work to be my personal favorite.

Thanks. Gets a lot of sun inside, it seems.

- Jake

You cannot go into a store here without seeing SW style somewhere, which is not one I love. Target has aisle after aisle of SW furnishings. Like I said, I'll take the Tudor.

- Jake

I visited his Unitarian church in Oak Park, IL, & my former synagogue down here was modeled after his style in the '40s. My parents & some of my friends have been to the house in PA with the stream/waterfall (I forget which) running through it. Cool idea.

- Jake

I don't really like southwest furnishings, but rather the architectural style. Like the adobe style homes or any of the homes in the southwest that have stucco front, tile roofs, lots of arched doors inside. That sort of thing.

I suppose I'd like them more if those houses were not so often clustered together. Some neighborhoods all you see are those red roofs & stucco walls. I like diverse neighborhoods. Those of you who know Houston, the neighborhoods right by Rice U. are beautiful for this reason. Each house seems to do its own thing, but it feels like a neighborhood in sync because of neat planning (consistent distances from the street & between houses, for example).

- Jake

Architecture
 

To LOOK at: Tudor
To LIVE in: Mediteranian (sp?)
Archiect: Frank Llyod Wright (Love Marin Civic Center)

You into flying buttresses and such? ;) I like the high gothic stuff. More windows, more light. There's a gorgeous two story cathedral in Paris called Sainte Chapelle that I love.

For homes, I like big old Victorian homes. Fireplaces, attics, hard wood floors.

#1) Creepy Victorian

#2) Gorgeous Neo-Baroque Gilded Age Mansions

#3) Rococo outta control Louis XV / Louis XVI (!!)

#4) Over the top Neo-Romantic-Renaissance ala Linderhof/Neuschwanstein Ludwig of Bavaria

#5) Georgian Splendor of the English countryside.

I'm hip for Greek Revivals and Victorians. :D

A little bit of everything. My favorite is probably Art-Deco. I like modern, too.

Mediterranean houses do tend to be nice.

- Jake

Yeah, like I said, I like Gothic.
I know Saint Chapelle & think I went there twenty years ago.

- Jake

Good taste. I love haunted looking houses & old mansions. But then again a Georgian country house by tall trees is nice as well.

- Jake