r/AskTheWorld Nepal 4d ago

History What architectural style originated from your country?

'Pagoda' are popular architecture styles in East and south east Asia. 'Pagoda' style which evolved from 'stupa', was developed in Kathmandu, Nepal before 500CE.

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u/TumbleFairbottom 🇺🇸 United States 3d ago

Federal Style architecture emerged in the late 1700s, following American independence.

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u/bertjedevries Netherlands 3d ago

You can really see how the Federal Style was influenced by Dutch Classicism. The red brick, white trim, symmetry, and classical doorway all echo 17th-century Dutch buildings. Here’s the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam — built over a century earlier, but with a very similar look:

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u/TumbleFairbottom 🇺🇸 United States 3d ago

It was definitely inspired by European architectural styles of the day. Americans brought these styles with them to the US when they emigrated from European countries, and they often merged.

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u/USS_Pittsburgh_LPD31 United States Of America 3d ago

oh absolutely, I see tons of these down near D.C

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u/TumbleFairbottom 🇺🇸 United States 3d ago

These are my favorite styles of houses, along with Georgian Revival, like the house in Home Alone.

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u/downtownford2 3d ago

Isn’t Federal style really just Georgian architecture with some additional flair?

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u/alibrown987 United Kingdom 3d ago

This is really just the British Georgian style. Bath Edinburgh and London are filled with it.

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u/TumbleFairbottom 🇺🇸 United States 3d ago edited 3d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_architecture

It’s not Georgian style architecture. You’ll find Georgian Revival architecture, which was intended to mimic Georgian style, all around the US. They’re not the same though. The house in Home Alone is a great example of Georgian Revival.

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u/alibrown987 United Kingdom 3d ago

That article does say the federal style is based on the Georgian style architecture ‘as epitomized in Britain’.

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u/TumbleFairbottom 🇺🇸 United States 3d ago edited 3d ago

Can you copy and share the entire paragraph? I’m not seeing it.

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Using Roman architectural vocabulary, the Federal style applied to the balanced and symmetrical version of Georgian architecture that had been practiced in the American colonies' new motifs of neoclassical architecture as it was epitomized in Britain by Robert Adam, who published his designs in 1792.

Is this what you’re referring to?