![]() ![]() Schindler took modern designs, including the A-Frame house, to southern California. Gropius and Breuer brought Bauhaus, which Mies van der Rohe transformed into International style. ![]() ![]() European architects who immigrated to America between the World Wars brought modernism to America that was different from Frank Lloyd Wright's American Prairie designs. Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, Albert Frey, Marcel Breuer, Eliel Saarinen-all of these designers influenced architecture from Palm Springs to New York City. Modernist houses broke away from conventional forms, while postmodernist houses combined traditional forms in unexpected ways. Example of modern desert architecture with it's Parabolic Roof. Soldiers returning from World War I brought a keen interest in French housing styles.Įxterior of Palm Springs Visitor's Center. Spanish, African, Native American, Creole, and other heritages combined to create a unique blend of housing styles in America's French colonies, particularly in New Orleans, the Mississippi Valley, and the Atlantic coastal Tidewater region. Spanish inspired styles include Pueblo Revival, Mission, and Neo-Mediterranean. Modern day "Spanish" style homes tend to be Mediterranean in flavor, incorporating details from Italy, Portugal, Africa, Greece, and other countries. Spanish settlers in Florida and the American Southwest brought a rich heritage of architectural traditions and combined them with ideas borrowed from Hopi and Pueblo Indians. Immigrants from all over the world have come to America, bringing with them old customs and cherished styles to mix with designs first brought to the Colonies. Mid-Century Modern Home Built by the Alexander Construction Company in Palm Springs, California.Ĭarol M. These designs became the mainstays of the expanding suburbs in developments such as Levittown (in both New York and Pennsylvania).īuilding trends became responsive to federal legislation- the GI Bill in 1944 helped build America's great suburbs and the creation of the interstate highway system by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 made it possible for people to not live where they worked. Mid-century homes from roughly 1930 until 1970 included the affordable Minimal Traditional style, the Ranch, and the beloved Cape Cod house style. to build families and the suburbs.Īs soldiers returned from World War II, real estate developers raced to meet the rising demand for inexpensive housing. From the Stock Market crash in 1929 until the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, those Americans who could afford new houses moved toward increasingly simple styles. one can find neighborhoods built between 19 with dominant themes-Arts & Crafts (Craftsman), Bungalow styles, Spanish Mission Houses, American Foursquare styles, and Colonial Revival homes were common.ĭuring the Great Depression, the building industry struggled. Neighborhoods such as these were designed to be upscale and affluent in part by a choice of architecture-British designs like the Tudor Cottage were thought to elicit an appearance of civility, elitism, and aristocracy, much like neoclassicism evoked a sense of democracy a century earlier.Īll neighborhoods were not alike, but often variations of the same architectural style would project a desired appeal. This is the boyhood home of American President Donald Trump. Trump, built this Tudor Revival cottage in 1940 in the Jamaica Estates section of Queens, a borough of New York City. Homes for the new century were becoming compact, economical, and informal as the American middle class began to grow. In the early 1900s, American builders begin to reject the elaborate Victorian styles. Even today, Wright's writings about organic architecture and design are noted by the environmentally sensitive designer.ĭonald Trump’s Childhood Home c. The Usonian appealed to the do-it-yourselfer. Wright's Prairie School designs inspired America's love affair with the Ranch Style home, a simpler and smaller version of the low-lying, horizontal structure with a predominate chimney. From roughly 1900 until 1955, Wright's designs and writings influenced American architecture, bringing a modernity that became truly American. His buildings introduced a Japanese serenity to a country largely populated by Europeans, and his notions about organic architecture are studied even today. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-highsm-39687 (cropped)Īmerican architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) revolutionized the American home when he began to design houses with low horizontal lines and open interior spaces. Usonian Style Lowell and Agnes Walter House, Built in Iowa, 1950. ![]()
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