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Italianate architecture, with its tall windows, bracketed eaves, and low-pitched roofs, remains influential in modern design. Learn how its smart, timeless features continue to shape homes and buildings today.
High-tech architecture blends cutting-edge technology with bold design to create buildings that respond to their environment. From smart facades to self-healing materials, it’s shaping the future of sustainable, efficient, and human-centered design.
Discover the timeless charm of Mediterranean revival architecture-stucco walls, terracotta roofs, arched windows, and courtyards that blend beauty with practicality. Learn its origins, key features, and why it still thrives today.
Gothic architecture isn't just beautiful-it's brilliant engineering. Discover how pointed arches, flying buttresses, and ribbed vaults defied gravity and turned stone into light-filled cathedrals that still stand today.
Renaissance architecture revived classical Roman and Greek design principles, emphasizing symmetry, proportion, and human scale. It transformed buildings from religious monuments into harmonious, rational spaces that still influence design today.
Constructivist architecture emerged in 1920s Russia as a revolutionary style blending bold geometry, raw materials, and social purpose. Its legacy lives on in modern housing and design.
Renaissance architecture fused art and science to create buildings based on harmony, proportion, and human reason. From Brunelleschi’s dome to Palladio’s villas, its legacy still shapes how we design spaces today.
Rococo was the playful, ornate art movement of 18th-century Europe that celebrated elegance, intimacy, and luxury. Known for pastels, gold, and curved forms, it defined aristocratic life before the revolution changed everything.
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