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J.M. ARCH. STYLE
Prairie Style
Features:
- Two structures
- Single story wing
- Horizontal lines
- Central Chimney
- Open floor plan
- Low pitched roof
- Rooms are often divided by leaded glass panels
- Furniture built-in or especially designed
- Structure made to blend in with flat, prairie landscape
- Franklin Lloyd Wright
Manueline
- Also known as Portugeuse Late Gothic
- Atlantic Gothic, derived from the sea
- It was the last phase of Gothic architecture in Portual named after King Manuel I (1495-1521).
- This style is a mixture of influences of Spanish Plateresque style, downtown Italian, and Flemish elements
- 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.
Characterized by:
- coral
- tree branches
- artichokes
- carved stone rope
- thickly knotted
- twisted round windows
- doorways
- pinnacles
Examples:
Architects that use this style:
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