Neo-classical

Neo-Classical on the Upper St. Lawrence
Neo-Classical in Ontario was very different from the later Classical Revival which followed the Greek and Roman styles deliberately and systematically.

Neo-Classical Style -- Early 20th century style which combines features of ancient, Renaissance, and Colonial architecture; characterized by imposing buildings with large columned porches.

6 Neo-Classical Architecture
In many countries of northern Europe the elegance and dignity attainable through adherence to classical rules of composition retained appeal, while in central and southern Europe and Scandinavia, ...

The neo-classical style used was not novel for the time; it was firmly anchored in time. Speer's style was assimilating the international 1930s style of public architecture, which was then being pursued as a modernising classicism.

Alternate Spellings: Neo-classical or Neo-Classical
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The White House
The American presidential home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. has seen conflict, controversy, and surprising transformations.

Low-pitched gable used in classical, Renaissance, and neo-classical architecture above a portico and above doors, windows, etc. It may be straight-sided or curved segmentally.

Fan-shaped pattern derived from the shape of a palm-tree leaf. Neo-classical motif.
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Technique using sand, chalk, and paper pulp molded while wet into decorative forms and furniture. Popular in 19th-century Europe and America.

A style associated with the Scottish architect Robert Adam (1728-92), marked by delicate all-over ornament derived largely from the decoration of ancient Roman interiors. It is one of the major contributions to the Neo-Classical phase of British ...

Classical - Derived from principles or language of the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome and developed by the Renaissance. The eighteenth century scholarly return to the Classical language is Neo-Classical.

century differing from earlier classical revivals in that it deliberately and consciously imitated antique models such as those found between 1738-56 in Herculaneum, Paestum, and Pompeii. — Neo-Classicist, n. — Neo-Classic, Neo-Classical, ...

neo-Classical Revival, with temple front porch.
11. St. Louis suburbs. c.1970s. neo-Colonial, with Classical front porch and Federal-style entryway.
12. St. Louis suburbs. c.1970s. neo-Colonial.
13. St. Louis suburbs. c.1970s. neo-Colonial.
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Topic: Architecture