Dancers Alma Real and Filipe del Hoyo at Old Spanish Days Fiesta, circa 1935. Credit: Santa Barbara Historical Museum Collection photo [Noozhawk’s note: One in a daily series leading up to Old Spanish ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." With their roomy size and eye-pleasing symmetry, Colonial-style homes remain one of the most enduring ...

America is composed of many different architectural styles. From Mediterranean-style homes influenced by rustic European architecture to the more traditional Colonial buildings nestled in pockets ...

Extracted from: Journal of modern history (Chicago) 59 (2) 1987, pages 291-316. The urban modernist vision of French architects during the colonial period could not be implemented in metropolitan ...

Exterior of a row of colorful Victorian homes with intricate wood trim. The story of American architecture has followed much of the same path as art has over the past 400 years. Art, as a whole, tends ...

In the mid-twentieth century, a set of South Asian countries collectively experienced a catharsis from colonizers' rule. The period that followed sparked an era of ideas and philosophies for a new ...

Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand’s first jail was a simple affair, just a symmetrical four-roomed log building, built in 1840 ...

Cartagena has just earned the title of South America’s most charming old town by Tourlane. Beyond its 16th-century walls lies a city that feels painted in sunlight and sound, a place where colonial ...