More often than not, what the eye becomes accustomed to, it no longer sees. This is also true for our diverse architecture – the buildings we grew up with and take for granted, although it was not the ...

Dancers Alma Real and Filipe del Hoyo at Old Spanish Days Fiesta, circa 1935. Credit: Santa Barbara Historical Museum Collection photo [Noozhawk’s note: One in a daily series leading up to Old Spanish ...

Extracted from: Journal of modern history (Chicago) 59 (2) 1987, pages 291-316. The urban modernist vision of French architects during the colonial period could not be implemented in metropolitan ...

America is composed of many different architectural styles. From Mediterranean-style homes influenced by rustic European architecture to the more traditional Colonial buildings nestled in pockets ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." With their roomy size and eye-pleasing symmetry, Colonial-style homes remain one of the most enduring ...

Exterior of a row of colorful Victorian homes with intricate wood trim. The story of American architecture has followed much of the same path as art has over the past 400 years. Art, as a whole, tends ...

In the mid-twentieth century, a set of South Asian countries collectively experienced a catharsis from colonizers' rule. The period that followed sparked an era of ideas and philosophies for a new ...

New Zealand’s first jail was a simple affair, just a symmetrical four-roomed log building, built in 1840 at Okiato in the Bay of Islands, not far from present-day Russell. But its history – especially ...

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