Sentences with phrase «revival architecture styles»

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He proceeds sequentially, from the sacred architecture of the Old Testament to the early Christian basilicas, then on to the Byzantine and Romanesque cathedrals and churches, and from there to the Gothic, the classicism of the Renaissance, the baroque and rococo, the neoclassicism and «revival» styles of the nineteenth century, and on to the present day.

Other than the mansions built in Federal or Greek revival styles in the early part of the 19th century, there is a tradition of cottage architecture that characterizes the slave quarters and rural settlements throughout Plantation Country.

Byzantine revival architecture, unlike contemporary revival styles, was easily identifiable by a rigid set of decorative tools.

Modern - day revival styles can be summarized within New Classical Architecture, and sometimes under the umbrella term traditional architecture.

Historian John M. Efron of the University of California at Berkeley regards the popularity of Moorish revival architecture among builders of synagogues as a refutation of Edward Said's Orientalism, since the builders chose the style as an expression of admiration for the culture of the Muslim world.

This exhibition, which was widely acclaimed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, examines the return to order in its key manifestations: the poetic dream of antiquity in the Parisian avant - garde; the politicized revival of the Roman Empire under Benito Mussolini; the functionalist utopianism of International Style architecture that originated at the Bauhaus; and, ultimately, the chilling aesthetic of nascent Nazi society.