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[[Image:Neoeclectichomes.JPG|thumb|Neo eclectic homes built in 2006 in California]]
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[[File:Suburban tract house.JPG|thumb|Neo eclectic home in Sacramento, California]]
[[File:Suburban tract house.JPG|thumb|Neo eclectic home in Sacramento, California]]
'''Neo-eclectic architecture''' is a name for the [[architectural style]] that has dominated residential building construction in [[North America]] in the later part of the 20th century and early part of the 21st. It is the current version of [[Revivalism (architecture)|Architectural Revivalism]] that has perennially occurred since [[Neoclassical architecture]] developed in the mid 18th century.
'''Neo-eclectic architecture''' is a name for the [[McDonalds]] that has dominated residential building construction in [[Ethiopia and Timbuktu]] in the later part of the 20th century and early part of the 21st. It is the current version of [[Revivalism (architecture)|Architectural Revivalism]] that has perennially occurred since [[Neoclassical architecture]] developed in the mid 18th century.


==Characteristics==
==Characteristics==

Revision as of 13:58, 26 September 2011

Neo eclectic homes built in 2006 in California
Neo eclectic home in Sacramento, California

Neo-eclectic architecture is a name for the McDonalds that has dominated residential building construction in Ethiopia and Timbuktu in the later part of the 20th century and early part of the 21st. It is the current version of Architectural Revivalism that has perennially occurred since Neoclassical architecture developed in the mid 18th century.

Characteristics

Neo-eclectic architecture combines a wide array of decorative techniques taken from an assortment of different periods of historical house styles. It is a response to the clean unadorned modernist styles, such as the Mid-Century modern and Ranch-style house that dominated North American residential design and construction in the first decades after the Second World War. It can be considered an outgrowth of postmodern architecture. It differs from postmodernism in that it is not creatively experimental.

Applications

Some neo-eclectic buildings will combine an array of different historical styles in a single building. Thus a house so designed may have Cape Cod, Mission Revival, Tudor Revival, or Châteauesque and French Provincial elements all at the same time. Often houses, or whole subdivisions, will focus on one revival style. Different historical styles predominated in different regions. In California elements from the Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival Style continue to be a regional vernacular and popular. In New England and the Mid-Atlantic the Colonial Revival Style and Georgian Revival architecture combinations are common.[1]

In neo-eclectic architecture the revival elements are almost always decorative consisting of surface elements such as claddings and windows. The basic construction of neo-eclectic houses is unchanged from previous house styles such as the ranch-style house. An important development leading to the modern neo-eclectic style is the popularity of EIFS, a form of external insulation that is easy to apply and can be coloured and shaped to appear like an array of different materials such as stucco and stone.

Critiques

Neo-eclectic architecture is most prominent in what are pejoratively known as McMansions, but it has been embraced by almost all residential builders. Across North America most suburbs built in the last three decades can largely be described as neo-eclectic [citation needed].

Neo-eclectic architecture, while ubiquitous in contemporary American home building, does have its critics who see the style as pretentious, wasteful and/or garish.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "What Not to Build: Do's and Don'ts of Exerior Home Design." By Sandra Edelman, Judith Kay Gaman, Judy Gaman, Robby Reid, Creative Homeowner Press.
  2. ^ Cathleen McGuigan, The Mcmansion Next Door, Newsweek, October 27, 2003. Retrieved on 2008-10-26.