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  2. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture - Wikipedia

    • Embraced principally in Florida and California, the Spanish Colonial Revival movement enjoyed its greatest popularity between 1915 and 1931. In Mexico, the Spanish Colonial Revival in architecture was tied to the nationalist movement in the arts encouraged by the post–Mexican Revolution government. See more

    Overview

    The Spanish Colonial Revival architecture (Spanish: Arquitectura neocolonial española), often known simply as … See more

    Development of style

    The antecedents of the Spanish Colonial Revival Style in the United States can be traced to the Mediterranean Revival architectural style. In St. Augustine, Florida, a former Spanish colony, a winter playgroun… See more

    Design elements

    Spanish Colonial Revival architecture shares some elements with the earlier Mission Revival style derived from the architecture of the California missions, and Pueblo Revival style from the traditional Puebloan p… See more

    Notable architects

    One of the most accomplished architects of the style was George Washington Smith who practiced during the 1920s in Santa Barbara, California. His own residences El Hogar (1916, a.k.a. Casa Dracaena) and Casa del G… See more

    List of example structures

    • California Quadrangle and El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, California: by Bertram Goodhue, for the Panama–California Exposition (1915-15).
    • Freedom Tower (Spanish: Torre de la Libertad) in Miami, Florida, … See more

    See also

    • Mediterranean Revival Style architecture
    • Mission Revival Style architecture
    • Mar del Plata style - eclectic vernacular architecture from Argentina featuring some Spanish Colonial characteristics… See more

    Further reading

    • Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Art of Colonial Latin America. London: Phaidon Press, 2005.
    • Newcomb, Rexford, Mediterranean Domestic Architecture in the United States. Marc Appleton, intro. New York: Acanthus Press, 2000. … See more

     
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