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建筑风格
这里的建筑风格分类是根据美国的习惯来区分的。
风格的背后是气候，族群，及各种人群的生活习惯及要求。
包括家庭组成、生活习惯，餐饮习惯，聚会要求等等。
很奇怪,赖特的草原式住宅（Prairie Style）没有列出，不过这里的craftman style比较接近草原式住宅。
Contemporary-Modern Home Plans
现当代式住宅
Contemporary-Modern style runs the gamut from mid-century modern to the latest designs representing current trends towards sleek, contemporary design. Contemporary-Modern design is characterized by clean, simple lines, a minimum of decoration, lots of glass, and flat or shed rooflines. Many feature unusual open floor plans and Indoor/outdoor living spaces.
现当代设计以干净，简单的线条为特征，装饰最少化，很多玻璃面，屋面线平整或者单坡屋面。很多有开放的底层平面，及开放的室内/室外空间特征。
Irregular massing
不规则体块组合
Clean lines and little ornamentation
清晰的线条及很少的装饰
Oversized windows
超大尺寸的窗户
Colonial Home Plans
殖民地式住宅
（多出现在美国东部原英国殖民地地区）
The quintessential Colonial-style home includes a symmetrical facade, regularly-spaced single windows, and some decorative accent over the front door. The size and complexity of that decoration is one of the features that differentiate the Colonial sub-styles. Historically speaking, this style developed in the original thirteen American colonies, as settlers adapted European building techniques to the materials available and the climates in their New World colonies. The Colonial home plans being built in America today are more accurately called "Colonial Revival," which was first seen around 1880, and grew rapidly after World War I. Examples range from the simple, square shape of a saltbox design to a grand estate, such as Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.
Rectangular, with a symmetrical façade
矩形的，对称的立面，
2-3 stories, with a gable roof
Front door with sidelights and topped by transom
windows
2-3层，双坡屋面，前门两侧有灯，门上有亮子。
Country Home Plans
乡村式住宅
（估计出现在大开发时期）
One of the most popular styles of home design in the United States right now is the traditional country house. Typically, country home plans combine several traditional architectural details on their well-proportioned, cozy facades. Look for porches, gables, lap siding, shuttered windows, and dormer windows on country home plans. Their famous nostalgic look lends them their enduring appeal. Picture a home in a Norman Rockwell painting and, inevitably, you'll be imagining a country home plan. Perfect examples of country home plans are also found in New England and the South.
Front porch
前廊
Shutters
百叶窗
Lap siding
壁板墙面
Craftsman Home Plans
手艺人式住宅
Embracing simplicity, handiwork, and natural materials, Craftsman home plans are cozy, often with shingle siding and stone details. Open porches with overhanging beams and rafters are common to Craftsman homes, as are projecting eaves and a low-pitched gable roof. The structural components are often visible, especially around the corners of the home and the gables, which often feature decorative trim. Bungalows, which are often one-and-a-half stories with low-pitched roofs, shallow "shed" dormers and deep porches, are a common form of Craftsman homes.
Wide eaves with brackets or exposed rafters
宽大的屋檐，外露的托架或者椽
Porch with square or round columns and stone
supports
石头基座及圆柱支撑的门廊
Low-pitched roof
缓坡屋面
European Home Plans
欧洲式住宅
European-style homes borrow materials and exterior details that are common to the French, English, and Mediterranean architectural traditions. The style is very popular today because of the sense of luxury conveyed by multi-peaked rooflines, bay-shaped rooms and windows, and architectural details such as repeating arches, wrought-iron balconies, clay-tile roofs, and decorative stone. Exterior cladding is usually stucco, stone or brick.
Complex rooflines
Irregular massing
Architectural details
English Cottage Home Plans
英国乡村式
Though traditionally defined as small or having only one room, the English Cottage has inspired larger and more elaborate homes, yet maintains the cozy comfort that we identify with the cottage style. On the exterior, the English Cottage commonly features half-hip roofs, reminiscent of thatched roofs of Shakespeare's time. The home's sides may be finished in shingles or stucco. Elements of Tudor styling may also be evident.
Half-hip roofs
Shingle or stucco siding, often with stone accents
Prominent chimney
French country house & Home Plans
法国乡村式住宅
Decorative shutters and arches with accenting keystones above the windows and doors are all features commonly found in French Country home plans. Copper-topped bay windows and a symmetrical facade of brick or stucco are other typical defining elements. A high-pitched hip roof unifies the exterior and is the most dominant characteristic of French Country home plans.
Hip roof
四坡顶
Arched doorway or front window
门廊或者前部主窗上部带有拱形
Brick, stone, or stucco exterior
砖，石，或者stucco外墙
Italianate Home Plans
意大利式住宅
Italianate-style homes were among the most popular built in the United States between 1840 and 1885. They feature a low-pitched or flat roof, symmetrical rectangular shape, tall appearance (2, 3 or 4 stories), wide eaves with brackets and cornices, square cupola, porches topped with balconies, side bay windows and heavy double doors. Roman or segmented arches are common above windows and doors and the windows are tall, narrow and double-paned. Italianate is also known as Tuscan, Lombard, or simply, bracketed style.
Low-pitched or flat roof
低缓的屋面或者平屋面
Wide eaves with brackets
宽大的带有托架（雀替）的挑檐
Tall, narrow windows
高的，狭窄的窗户
Mediterranean Home Plans
地中海式住宅
Mediterranean-style homes mimic those traditionally found in Mediterranean countries, particularly Spain, France and Italy. A low-pitched tile roof, often red, is the most distinctive characteristic of this style of home plan. Usually finished in stucco, these home plans often include extensive outdoor living areas, columns, and arched windows and openings. Wrought-iron balconies and details are also common characteristics of these homes. Mediterranean homes share many features with Spanish home plans.
这一风格与西班牙式风格有很多共同元素
Low-pitched tile roof
低缓的瓦屋面
Stucco siding
Stucco墙面
Arches over windows and doors
Courtyard, patio, or lanai
门窗，院落，庭院，凉亭上的拱型造型因素
New American Home Plans
新美国式住宅
Popular from 1980 to the present, this is a style often seen in American suburbs. It is not strongly associated with any given style, but borrows elements from a variety of styles to create an entirely new look. Soaring entryways, a mix of materials, and prominent garages are all common on the exterior. This style is also called Postmodern.
Dominant garage
Elements borrowed from many styles
Familiar shapes used in unexpected ways
Neoclassical Home Plans
新古典式住宅
Neoclassical homes are inspired by the classical architecture of ancient Greece and Rome. These homes are large (usually two or two-and-a-half stories) and often feature a prominent portico supported by large columns, which are often the full height of the facade. Roofs are most often side gabled, with an elegant triangular pediment over the front entrance. Neoclassical elements can be found in antebellum architecture, Greek revival and federal style homes.
Symmetrical shape
Tall columns
Two-story porch
Ranch House Plans and Ranch Home Plans
牧场式住宅
(从造型风格上看，与craftman style有渊源)
Ranch-style homes are great starter homes, owing to their cost-effective construction. Ranch home plans, or ramblers as they are sometimes called, are usually one story, though they may have a finished basement, and they are wider then they are deep. Simple floor plans are usually divided into a living wing and a sleeping wing. Exterior ornamentation is limited. Raised ranches, also known as split-foyer and split-level home plans, are variations of ranch style design.
低成本的首次置业住宅
Single story
单层
Low-pitched roof
低缓的坡屋面
Horizontal layout
水平向布局
Simple, [open floor plan]
(http://www.homeplans.com/house-plans/hp/collections/open-floor-plans.html)
简单的平面
Spanish Home Plans
西班牙式住宅
Also called Spanish Revival, this style was very popular in the United States from 1915 to 1945. The Spanish style has a stucco exterior, a clay-tile roof, exposed beams, wrought-iron details and repeated arches around an entry walkway. Front doors are of heavy carved wood and porches sometimes feature spiral columns. Walls and floors are often covered with patterned tiles. The floor plan may also include an enclosed courtyard.
也被称作西班牙复兴式风格。1915-1945年间，这一风格在美国非常流行。
室内：
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Stucco exterior
Stucco（一种手工抹泥技术）外墙
Low-pitched tile roof
低缓的瓦屋面
Little or no overhanging eaves
小悬挑出檐或者没有悬挑出檐
Arches above doors, porch entries and windows
门、门廊、窗上有拱
Southwestern Home Plans
西南部样式住宅
Southwestern house plans are typical of those found in southern California, Nevada or Arizona, but are not necessarily representative of Spanish home plans. Many Southwestern house plans offer stucco walls and tile roofs to buffer the sun and heat of the Southwestern climate.
Stucco exterior
Low-pitched tile roof
Courtyard, patio or other outdoor living area
Tudor Home Plans
都铎式住宅
Tudor house plans are drawn loosely from late medieval English homes. The term "Tudor Revival" in American architecture generally covers the blend of a variety of elements of late English medieval styles, including Elizabethan and Jacobean. Most Tudor house plans have stucco or masonry exteriors that are accented by ornamental half-timbering, massive chimneys and steep gable roofs. Other common features include arched entries and tall, narrow window groups.
Stucco exterior
Decorative half-timber details
Steeply pitched roof
Tall, narrow, multi-paned windows
Traditional Home Plans
传统式住宅
Traditional home plans may have characteristics of one or more historical architectural styles, without being easily classified as any particular style. They may be eclectic (displaying multiple stylistic influences) or simply pared-down, modern-day interpretations of historic styles. As such, they fit in well in any number of settings, from established neighborhoods to rural lots. As their name suggests, they tend to feature “traditional” floor plans, with a formal living and dining room, along with traditional comforts like welcoming front porches and cozy fireplaces. Traditional house plans come in all sizes, with one or more stories. Browse our Traditional Home Plan collection to find the perfect home plan for your modern family, wrapped in good old-fashioned charm.
Architectural details borrowed from any historical style
Front porches
Formal living and dining rooms
Victorian Home Plans
维多利亚式住宅
Victorian home plans feature elaborate detail inside and out, with asymmetrical floor plans, grand towers and turrets, and distinctive gingerbread trim. Owners of Victorian style homes often paint them in whimsical colors, reflecting the freedom afforded by the industrial revolution, which spawned the building techniques required to create such elaborate homes.
维多利亚式住宅内部外部均有精美的装饰，底层呈现不对称布局，有高大的塔或者小塔，精美奢华的装饰。
Complex massing and rooflines
复杂的体块及屋面组合
Round or square towers
圆形或者方形的尖塔
Ornamental spindles and brackets
装饰过的细柱及托架
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Prairie style Home
草原式住宅
Prairie School was a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common to the Midwestern United States.
‘大草原学派’是在19世纪末，20世纪初出现在美国中西部的一种建筑风格。
The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands, integration with the landscape, solid construction, craftsmanship, and discipline in the use of ornament. Horizontal lines were thought to evoke and relate to the native prairie landscape.
草原式风格的特征是强调水平线条，平屋面或者四坡屋面，宽大的悬挑出檐，与周边景观紧密结合，砌体结构，工艺特征及装饰运用原则。水平线条被认为是为了与自然原野结合的需要。
