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  2. Architectural painting - Wikipedia

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    In the Renaissance, architecture was used to emphasize the perspective and create a sense of depth, like in Masaccio's Holy Trinity from the 1420s. In Western art, architectural painting as an independent genre developed in the 16th century in Flanders and the Netherlands, and reached its peak in 16th and 17th century Dutch painting.

  3. Victor Horta - Wikipedia

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    The building is widely recognized as one of the first appearances of Art Nouveau in architecture (along with the Hankar House by Paul Hankar, built at the same time). [12] [1] [13] In 2000, it was designated, along with three other town houses designed soon afterwards, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In designating these sites, UNESCO ...

  4. Neo-futurism - Wikipedia

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    WU Vienna, Library & Learning Center by Zaha Hadid. Neo-futurism is a late-20th to early-21st-century movement in the arts, design, and architecture. [2] [3]Described as an avant-garde movement, [4] as well as a futuristic rethinking of the thought behind aesthetics and functionality of design in growing cities, the movement has its origins in the mid-20th-century structural expressionist work ...

  5. Expressionist architecture - Wikipedia

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    Art for the masses. Alliance of the arts under the wing of architecture. 50 artists, architects and patrons join led by Bruno Taut, Walter Gropius and Adolf Behne. April – Erich Mendelsohn, Hannes Meyer, Bernard Hoetger, Max Taut and Otto Bartning stage exhibition called 'An Exhibition of Unknown Architects'.

  6. Beaux-Arts architecture - Wikipedia

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    The Beaux-Arts style evolved from the French classicism of the Style Louis XIV, and then French neoclassicism beginning with Style Louis XV and Style Louis XVI.French architectural styles before the French Revolution were governed by Académie royale d'architecture (1671–1793), then, following the French Revolution, by the Architecture section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

  7. Futurist architecture - Wikipedia

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    Perspective drawing from La Città Nuova by Sant'Elia, 1914.. Futurist architecture is an early-20th century form of architecture born in Italy, characterized by long dynamic lines, suggesting speed, motion, urgency and lyricism: it was a part of Futurism, an artistic movement founded by the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who produced its first manifesto, the Manifesto of Futurism, in 1909.

  8. Streamline Moderne - Wikipedia

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    Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In industrial design, it was used in railroad locomotives, telephones, buses, appliances, and other devices to give the ...

  9. Otto Wagner - Wikipedia

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    Otto Koloman Wagner (German: [ˈɔto ˈkoːloman ˈvaːɡnɐ] ⓘ; 13 July 1841 – 11 April 1918) was an Austrian architect, furniture designer and urban planner.He was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and the broader Art Nouveau movement.