What's Your Favorite Architectural Style?

[Patti]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

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 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.

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by Patti

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

[jadegypsy]

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

[Tango]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

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

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.

[The Tower]

#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.

[littlelies7]

I'm hip for Greek Revivals and Victorians.

[GypsySorcerer]

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

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by jadegypsy

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

Mediterranean houses do tend to be nice.

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by Tango

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.

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

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by The Tower

#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.

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

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by littlelies7

I'm hip for Greek Revivals and Victorians.

I never appreciated Victorians until I moved away from the East Coast. Until then they looked like typical old houses to me.

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

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

When I think modern I remember how my high school girlfriend loved that atrocious house in Ruthless People, the one Midler & Devito lived in. Shudder.

- Jake