Building Techoclogy » Richardsonian Romanesque http://www.building-tech.com The Building Technology Resource Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:11:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Victorian architecture http://www.building-tech.com/victorian-architecture/ http://www.building-tech.com/victorian-architecture/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 06:30:14 +0000 blogtopia http://www.building-tech.com/reference/architectural-style/victorian-architecture/ manchester_town_hall The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly employed during the Victorian era. As with the latter, the period of building that it covers may slightly overlap the actual reign, 20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901, of Queen Victoria after whom it is named. There are also Folk and Shingle Style Victorian Houses. Many homes combined the elements of several different styles and are not easily distinguishable as one particular style or another. In the USA, Highly decorated houses are sometimes called gingerbread houses.

Notable Victorian era cities include London, Toronto, Boston, Richmond, Saint Paul, St. Louis, Louisville, Galena, IL, Galveston, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Glasgow, Nelson, Sydney, Melbourne, Manchester, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pittsburgh, Philidelphia, Grand Rapids, and New Orleans.

Varieties of Victorian architecture

  • British Arts and Crafts movement
  • Gothic Revival
  • Italianate
  • Jacobethan (the precursor to the Queen Anne style)
  • Neoclassicism
  • Neo-Grec
  • Painted ladies
  • Queen Anne
    Renaissance Revival
  • Romanesque Revival (includes Richardsonian Romanesque)
  • Second Empire
  • Stick-Eastlake
  • Industrial architecture

Links

Incoming search terms:

  • victorian era architecture
  • victorian style architecture
  • victorian architecture hong kong
  • victorian era home building technology
  • what is victorian architecture
  • викторианская архитектура
]]> http://www.building-tech.com/victorian-architecture/feed/ 0 Romanesque Revival architecture http://www.building-tech.com/romanesque-revival-architecture/ http://www.building-tech.com/romanesque-revival-architecture/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 08:03:29 +0000 blogtopia http://www.building-tech.com/reference/architectural-style/romanesque-revival-architecture/ royce_hall Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed in the late 19th century inspired by the 11th and 12th century Romanesque style of architecture. Popular features of these revival buildings are round arches, semi-circular arches on windows, and belt courses. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, however, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to feature more simplified arches and windows than their historic counterparts.

The style was quite popular for courthouses and university campuses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, especially in the United States; a well known example is the University of California, Los Angeles. The style was widely used for churches, and occasionally for synagogues such as the Congregation Emanu-El of New York on Fifth Avenue built in 1929. Neo-Romanesque details in a neo-Renaissance structure:New York State Capitol, Albany, New York
Richardsonian Romanesque: Bexar County Courthouse, San Antonio, Texas

By far the most prominent and influential American architect working in a free "Romanesque" manner was Henry Hobson Richardson. In the United States the style derived from examples set by him are termed Richardsonian Romanesque.

A variety of Romanesque revival style known as Rundbogenstil (Round-arched style) was popular in German lands and in the German diaspora.

During the 19th Century the architecture selected for Anglican churches depended on the churchmanship of particular congregations. Whereas high churches and Anglo-Catholic, which were influenced by the Oxford Movement, were built in Gothic Revival architecture, low churches and broad churches of the period were often built in the Romanesque Revival style.

Links

]]> http://www.building-tech.com/romanesque-revival-architecture/feed/ 0 Richardsonian Romanesque http://www.building-tech.com/richardsonian-romanesque/ http://www.building-tech.com/richardsonian-romanesque/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 07:48:52 +0000 blogtopia http://www.building-tech.com/reference/architectural-style/richardsonian-romanesque/ trinity_church_in_boston Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after architect Henry Hobson Richardson, whose masterpiece is Trinity Church, Boston (1872–77). Vestiges of the style first appeared in Richardson’s Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane in Buffalo, New York, designed in 1870.

This very free, revival style incorporates 11th and 12th century southern French, Spanish and Italian Romanesque characteristics. It emphasizes clear, strong picturesque massing, round-headed "Romanesque" arches, often springing from clusters of short squat columns, recessed entrances, richly varied rustication, boldly blank stretches of walling contrasting with bands of windows, and cylindrical towers with conical caps embedded in the walling.

The style epitomizes work by the generation of architects practicing in the 1880s— before the influx of Beaux-Arts styles— such as J. Cleaveland Cady of Cady, Bird and See in New York City, whose American Museum of Natural History’s original 77th Street range epitomizes "Richardsonian Romanesque." Some of the practitioners who most faithfully followed Richardson’s proportion, massing and detailing had worked in his office.

These include Wadsworth Longfellow and Frank Alden (Longfellow, Alden & Harlow of Boston & Pittsburgh); George Shepley and Charles Coolidge (Richardson’s former employees, and his successor firm, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge of Boston); and Herbert Burdett (Marling & Burdett of Buffalo). The style influenced the Chicago school of architecture and architects Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. In Finland, Eliel Saarinen was influenced by Richardson.

Links

Incoming search terms:

  • boldly blank stretches of walling
  • buffalo new york architecture
  • marling and burdett architects
]]> http://www.building-tech.com/richardsonian-romanesque/feed/ 0