Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo
(1851–1942).London-born architect and designer. His first work was influenced by Norman Shaw but he also drew on Italian Renaissance, Queen Anne, and Wrenaissance styles. He founded the Century ...
Basil Champneys
(1842–1935) English architect and writer.Starting practice in 1867, Champneys revived the late Gothic favoured in Arts and Crafts circles, exemplifying this at Oxford in the lavish Mansfield College ...
chaînes
Masonry pier-like elements on a façade, sometimes with parallel sides, and sometimes with alternating wide and narrow blocks (like the normal arrangement of quoins), subdividing a façade into panels ...
Charles Robert Ashbee
(1863–1942).English Arts-and-Crafts designer, celebrated for his metalwork, but also an architect, with some sixty buildings, most of them houses, to his credit. He was influenced by Morris, Ruskin, ...
Colonial
Applied to styles of architecture derived from those of the motherland in a colony. American Colonial is a modification of the English Georgian or Queen Anne styles, of particular interest because ...
Edward Clarke Cabot
(1818–1901).American architect. He became a leading figure in the Boston architectural world from the time his Athenaeum (1846–9) was built. This, his greatest work, was influenced by Charles Barry's ...
Francis Mawson Rattenbury
(1867–1935).English architect, trained by his uncles, William (1828–89) and Richard (1834–1904) Mawson (who, with Lockwood, had designed Saltaire, the model Company town in Yorks. from 1858). Having ...
Frank Lloyd Wright
(1869–1959)US architect of outstanding originality, whose important buildings are in America. He designed nothing in Europe.Born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, Wright studied architecture in Chicago ...
Free style
Late-C19 style in which Classical, Domestic Revival, Gothic, Queen Anne, and vernacular themes, motifs, and elements were mingled promiscuously in eclectic compositions, sometimes with additional ...
Historicism
1 Architecture strongly influenced by the past, especially Revivalist architecture (Greek, Gothic, Early Christian, Romanesque, Italianate, Renaissance, the various Henri and Louis styles, ...
John Hubbard Sturgis
(1834–88).American architect, educated in England and on the Continent where he absorbed ideas associated with the Gothic Revival and the Arts-and-Crafts movement. He started practising architecture ...
LeRoy Sunderland Buffington
(1847–1931).American architect, he established his own practice in Minneapolis, MN, in 1873, where he was immensely successful, designing numerous buildings in several styles, notably Queen Anne and ...
Newsom Brothers
Samuel (1854–1908) and Joseph Cather (1858–1930) Newsom were prolific designers and builders of late-C19 domestic architecture in the USA. Their most celebrated house is the William Carson Residence, ...
Old English
An English architectural style of the later 19th century in which vernacular forms such as steeply pitched roofs, timber framing, and tall ornamental chimneys were revived. It was particularly ...
Philip Appleby Robson
(1871–1951).English architect, the son of E. R. Robson. He was articled to Pearson, assisting the latter at Truro Cathedral, before joining his father. He later worked for various Government ...
Philip Speakman Webb
(1831–1915).Influential English Arts-and-Crafts architect, specializing in houses. With Norman Shaw he was one of the leaders of the English Domestic Revival. His style from the first was ...
Richard Norman Shaw
(1831–1912) English architect, among the most influential of the final quarter of the 19th century.Shaw trained at the Royal Academy schools under C. R. Cockerell, and worked under William ...
Russell Sturgis
(b Baltimore, 16 Oct 1836; d New York, 11 Feb 1909),architect, art historian, writer and critic. As a student in New York Sturgis was drawn to architecture by observing ...
Shingle style
USA version of the Old English style of the vernacular or Domestic Revival of the 1870s. In England, tile-hung walls and gables were commonly incorporated in designs of the period, and in America ...
Stuart architecture
Architecture of the C17, especially Jacobean and Caroline, but also applied to the period of the Stuart dynasty in Great Britain from James I and VI (1603–25) to Queen Anne (1702–14). However, the ...
