Housing Styles

Housing Styles

Poll

Which housing style is your favorite?

Multiple Choice

Which home is made of mud?

Adobe Houses

•  Earthen materials such as adobe mud brick or masonry and stucco imitations

•  Flat or gently sloping roofs

•  Projecting wooden roof beams extending through walls

• Early Americans found that adobe houses are uniquely suited to the brutal heat of the Southwest

• This style is most common in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NM.

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This small style of home originated in England many years ago.

Cottage Style Houses

• Many of the first cottages had a ground floor with the bedrooms quaintly fitting within the roof space of the home.

• During the Middle Ages, this style of home was used to house farmers and their families

• The cottage was later to be described as a home with 4 rooms, two upstairs and two downstairs. 

• In the United States, cottages are often thought to be summer residences that are typically located near a body of water or resort. Many people escape to their cottages on the weekends or throughout the summer months.

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“The Industrial Age was in full force, and designers used materials and mass-producing techniques to break out of traditional design convention and create an architecture that was ornate, ornamental and perhaps overly decorative, telegraphing the wealth and success of the age,” explains Tim Bakke, director of publishing for The Plan Collection. Which style is described in the passage above?

Victorian Houses

• Victorian houses were very much a product of their time. Although they were named after Queen Victoria, they were far more inspired by the Industrial Revolution.

• The advances in manufacturing and transportation enabled builders to access better quality materials, actualize more complex, decorative designs and apply colored paints to buildings for the first time.

• Spreading across the colonies, Victorian houses maintained their popularity over the course of the century. 

Poll

Which is your favorite?

Multiple Choice

This house style was done in an Arts and Crafts style and was the antitheis (opposite) of Victorian at its introduction in the US.

Craftsman Houses

• A covered front porch

• Tapered columns that support the roof and are typically more sturdy at the bottom, becoming smaller at the top

• Single dormers, centered and very large, often with multiple windows

• Multi-pane windows, cased in wide trim

• Partially paned doors, typically the upper third of the door

Multiple Choice

Which of these homes is designed to have a "great room" for the family to relax in, reminding one of open land to roam, and was very popular in the 1940s-1970s?

Ranch Houses

•  is a domestic architectural style originating in the United States. 

• is noted for its long, close-to-the-ground profile, and wide open layout. 

• First appearing as a residential style in the 1920s, the ranch was extremely popular with the booming post-war middle class of the 1940s to the 1970s.

• The style was soon exported to other nations and became popular worldwide.

Multiple Choice

Which style is the most common in the US?

Traditional Style Houses

•  Common features include little ornamentation, simple rooflines, symmetrically spaced windows.

• Traditional homes are more of a broad term that can emcompass other house styles like ranch and craftsman.

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Frank Lloyd Wright said, these buildings are "married to the ground". They celebrate the long, low landscape of the Midwest.

Prarie Houses

• Originated by architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright, in Chicago in early 1900s.

• Their most defining characteristic is their emphasis on the horizontal rather than the vertical.

• They spread out over their lots, featuring flat or shallow hipped roof lines, rows of windows, overhanging eaves and bands of stone, wood or brick across the surface. 

• The inspiration for Ranch Houses

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This style of house is know for its dramatic effect and simple, clean lines.

Contemporary Houses

• Contemporary architecture with interesting roof lines

•  the use of “Green” materials and systems are commonly used in Contemporary Modern homes, with architects and builders pushing the boundaries of sustainable housing and design.

• Their design is more free form and artistic

• They incorporate mixed-use spaces. For example,  a garden that doubles as a movie theater, is a feature that is prominent in many recent contemporary homes.

• No exterior ornamentation, focused more on function

Modern Houses

•  a strong horizontal composition with large open floor plans, intentional asymmetry, and large expanses of glass windows or glass walls. 

• many of these homes were designed to blur the boundaries between the indoors and outdoors. They used the surrounding area to enhance the features of the home, using the lines of the roof or cantilevers to continue the lines of the landscape around the home.

•  the materials used in the construction as well as the interior design of the home – many use things like dark, rich woods and marble with warm accents of color.

• Monochromatic color pallette inspired by nature

• Designed in the early 1900s

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This style was also called a "folk house" and was influenced by its geography.

Farmhouse Style

• Very simply put, homes built on agricultural lands were called farmhouses.

•  located on agricultural land and were designed to function around a farming lifestyle.

   sporting a long wraparound porch 

• Porches were a transitional space in a farmhouse. Dad and the kids could leave their muddy boots outside so the wooden floors inside stayed clean.

• Formal and informal spaces. The front of the house served as the formal area, and a large kitchen and the staircase to the bedrooms were housed in the back.

Poll

Which is your favorite style?

Bungalow Houses

• Small homes with little square footage

• The full-width porch is spacious and welcoming and enhances the compact interior by adding outdoor living space.

•  the floor is raised up and front steps are needed. 

• Cottage and Craftsman are forms of Bungalow

• The interior of a bungalow is very efficient with space because closets are small and there are usually built-in cabinets and shelving.

Cape Cod Houses

• steep roof, central chimney and rectangular shape, 

• Windows and dormers. A full Cape has two windows on each side of the door, and often has a dormer on each side of the chimney to open up the attic.

Colonial Houses

• Many colonists emigrated from Europe and brought those influences with them.

• the Colonial style became distinct, recognizable for its use of geometry,

•  the homes are symmetrical, or square, and feature an entry door that can be found in the middle of the front of the home.

•  two windows on either side of the entry door, with five windows on the second floor, with one directly above the entry door.

• a stairway that is directly behind the entry door and leads to a hallway that bisects the middle of the second floor.