I am doing research for a spanish paper and I have to discuss the Alamo and other spanish colonial buildings. After a bit of research and my knowledge of art history I think I may have figured out what type of architecture the Alamo represents. During the 18th century in Spain the predominant style was spanish baroque, rococo neoclassical etc. After looking at a few different styles I think I can safely say that the Alamo looks to be a hybrid. During the romantic period, orientalism was becoming very popular not only in painting but in architecture as well. The allure of the east had the Conservative Western world burning for the unknown. After some research it seems that this style could have come to the Americas from Spain and mixed with the spanish colonial style which in itself is a hybrid of spanish and indigeneous styles. The spanish style that it most represents is called the mudéjar and neo-mudéjar styles. This in combo with indigeneous styles (due to the different types of material used for building -to accomodate the climate, building materials and functionality of the structure) made what we can witness in the facade of the Alamo and other like structures such as the mission of san carlos borromeo de carmelo in California. This is my best guess at what the Alamo is as far as structural interpretation of style. The mudéjar style, to elaborate, is a hybrid of spanish and arbian/muslem/middle eastern styles (moorish, byzantine etc).
They had old buildings.
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Not necessarily. There were other forts in Texas besides the Alamo. [Fort Defiance, for example. ] The Alamo was one Texas fort, but not all Texas forts were the Alamo.
Architecture
"Alamo" is Spanish for "cottonwood." So, an Alamo tree is a cottonwood tree.
limestone
The Ionic and Doric orders of architecture.
Texas was a democracy.
Yes, an example of Doric architecture would be the Parthenon in Greece.
Gothic Architecture
there are mainly three types, in architecture conceptual, perceptual and physical.
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They had old buildings.
Geography influences architecture because geography is the lay of the land. How the land is laid out will determine what type of architecture will look the best.
Adolf Loos received his architecture training as an apprentice.
It depends on the type of outdoor architecture... But, yes, you can use limestone.
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