Spanish Revival Roofs

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Spanish revival roofs.

Spanish style homes are found throughout the southwestern united states and in florida. Designers and builders adapted easily recognized motifs most notably the curvaceous mission dormer or roof parapet from spanish american adobe church buildings mission houses most common in california and the southwest unfailingly have red tile roofs and walls of smooth stucco. Porched roofs spanish revival style homes are influenced by spanish colonial architecture of earlier centuries. North palm beach florida.

One of the styles best adapted and seen throughout the southwest is the spanish revival. Every one i have come across has been unique and well constructed with lots of character and charm. Instead these early 20th century homes combine. On the flat roof massing types barrel mission tiles and decora tive parapet walls are used as accents on the front façades.

Peter johansky getty images cropped america s spanish houses have a long history and can incorporate many styles. Typical features include a low pitched roof with little or no eave overhang a red tiled roof perhaps a prominent rounded arch over a door window or porch a stucco wall surface and usually an asymmetrical façade. Elaborate tile work applied relief ornamentation and wrought iron. These homes all have similar architecture are made from local materials and feature small windows ornate archways thick walls and the classic wooden beam roofs with which most people are familiar.

Stucco walls rounded arches tile roofs and patios set in semi tropical and hot climates are charming but relatively comfortable too. Spanish revival is more ornate with stylistic detail apparent in both large features and small such as intricately patterned tile work and wrought iron hardware. The mission revival came first one result of a preservation movement that had begun in the 1880s. Style movement from 1915 to 1931.

This type of architecture was born as a result of the panama california exposition and became a u s. Architects and historians often use the word eclectic to describe architecture that mixes traditions. Richmond spanish revival smooth flat stucco walls sculpted wall elements to transi. As a fan and owner of a 1927 spanish colonial revival home i can t get enough of them.