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Spanish Colonial Revival architecture is characterized by a combination of detail from several eras of Spanish Baroque, Spanish Colonial, Moorish Revival and Mexican Churrigueresque architecture. The style is marked by the prodigious use of smooth plaster ( stucco ) wall and chimney finishes, low- pitched clay tile , shed, or flat roofs, and ...
The Spanish colonial style of architecture dominated in the early Spanish colonies of North and South America, and were also somewhat visible in its other colonies. It is sometimes marked by the contrast between the simple, solid construction demanded by the new environment and the Baroque ornamentation exported from Spain.
The Mission Revival style of architecture, and subsequent Spanish Colonial Revival style, have historical, narrative—nostalgic, cultural—environmental associations, and climate appropriateness that have made for a predominant historical regional vernacular architecture style in the Southwestern United States, especially in California.
California Churrigueresque [1] [2] is a revival style native to California, developed in the early 20th century by architects Bertram Goodhue and Carleton Winslow Sr. for the 1915 Panama–California Exposition, which helped popularize its use in Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in California, and to a lesser extent the rest of the United ...
Spanish Colonial Revival architecture — a 20th-century Revival architectural style. The style was inspired by the original 16th−19th century Spanish Colonial architecture works in the colonial Americas.
Mission Revival architecture at San Diego State University, California. Mission/Spanish Revival is an amalgam of two distinct styles popular in different but adjacent eras: the primarily late-19th-century Mission Revival Style architecture and early-20th-century (and later) Spanish Colonial Revival architecture. The combined term, or the ...
Built in 1928, the five-bedroom, four full- and two half-bathroom property, dubbed Casa Vista, offers sweeping views from Pasadena all the way to Santa Monica but, on the inside, required Lucas ...
Spanish Colonial Revival architecture Caribbean Spanish West Indies Spanish colonial cities were usually laid out according to La Traza, a strict quadratic plan where the town radiated out from a central plaza (here the Plaza de Armas in Cusco )