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Postwar and Late Modern Styles of North America

Architectural styles from the Postwar and Late Modern period that arose in or belong to North America, grouped by the place their own cited articles name. A style belongs here when its cited article places it in North America. Styles of other regions sit in the matching regional groups of the same subcategory, and styles whose article names no region are left in the subcategory until a regional group fits them.

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Getty Research Institute, Art and Architecture Thesaurus: Mexican Modernist
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Artistic movement that flourished in Mexico in the early 1920s
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Googie architecture (Wikipedia)
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It originated in Southern California from the Streamline Moderne architecture of the 1930s, and was popular in the United States from roughly 1945 to the early 1970s.
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Usonia (Wikipedia)
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Usonia () is a mid-20th-century architectural style and ideal for the United States promoted by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Populuxe (Wikipedia)
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Populuxe was a consumer culture and aesthetic in the United States popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Patio home (Wikipedia)
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A patio home, also known as a cluster home, is a type of American house.
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Minimal Traditional (Wikipedia)
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Minimal Traditional is a style of architecture that emerged in mid 20th century America as a vernacular form that incorporates influences from earlier styles such as American Colonial, Colonial Revival, Spanish Revival, Tudor Revival, and American Craftsman while adhering to modern architecture's
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High Ranch (Wikipedia)
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High Ranch is an American style of house, also known as Split entry , Hi-Ranch, Bi-Level Ranch and Raised Ranch.
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Painted ladies (Wikipedia)
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In American architecture, painted ladies are Victorian and Edwardian houses repainted, starting in the 1960s, in three or more colors that embellish or accentuate their architectural details.
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Dingbat (building) (Wikipedia)
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A dingbat is a type of apartment building, named for the midcentury-esque visual motifs on their exterior, that flourished in the Sun Belt region of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, a vernacular variation of shoebox style "stucco boxes". Dingbats are boxy, two or three-story apartment
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Vancouver special (Wikipedia)
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The Vancouver special is an architectural style of residential houses developed in Metro Vancouver, Canada.
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Northwest Regional style (Wikipedia)
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Northwest Regional style architecture is an architectural style popular in the Pacific Northwest between 1935 and 1960.
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Miami Modern architecture (Wikipedia)
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Miami Modernist architecture, or MiMo, is a regional style of architecture that developed in South Florida during the post-war period.
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Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus: Ranch style
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Style of domestic architecture, particularly in North American 1940s-1950s.
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