THE COLONIAL AMERICA

I was surprised when 2 of my classmates presented this topic in our HSTARCH2 (History of Architecture 2). I never thought that the Colonial America Period had conquered alot of cities and countries. They spread their distinctive styles in different part of the world ike in Netherlands, America, French, German, etc.

Most of the styles cathegorized by the Colonial America and is very prominent from then on was the brick layering and especially the use of brick. We discussed different ways how to layer bricks there are the shiner, sailor and header. It's difficult to identify the different layerings at first but somehow we managed to get a solution for this problem. We actually made hand gestures that looked like the Macarena dance, hopefully we could remember all the gestures.

So there are also the implication of the past styles just like the gothic, renaissance, etc. but is now a bit modernized or the "Revival" as we call it. This is where the NEOCLASSICAL comes in. They are fond of reviving original styles from the past and adding something new to it giving it a new term.

Though this period doesn't have much originality still I liked how the outcomes and outputs turned out to be having constructed perfectly and amazingly. This is not my favorite Period but I learned and got alot from it. It was Overwhelming.

(PICTURES SOON TO COME) :)