Shoebox style (architecture)
- Shoebox style (architecture)
In architecture, shoebox style refers to the functionalist style of modern architecture characterised by predominantly rectilinear, orthogonal shapes, with regular horizontal rows of windows or glass walls. ["The Encyclopedia Americana" (1989) ISBN 0717201201, p. 238.]
Along the same analogy, it refers to undistinguished styles of apartment houses, such as dingbat apartments.
The puritan and repetitive shoebox style is seen as a way to low-cost construction. [J.J.Coulton, Michael Raeburn (eds.)(1980) "Architecture of the Western World", ISBN 084780349X, p. 61.]
The term "shoebox style" is also applies to concert halls of rectangular shape, as opposed to the traditional circular amphitheatre/arena/horseshoe shapes. [ [http://www.acoustics.org/press/149th/kwon.html Music Halls from the 18th to 20th Centuries: Changes in Acoustical and Architectural Criteria] ]
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