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The architecture of Puerto Rico demonstrates a broad variety of architectural styles and built forms over the country's history of over four centuries of former Spanish rule, and over a century of American rule. Puerto Rico 's architecture is as diverse as its multicultural society and has been shaped by many internal and external factors and ...
List of Puerto Rican architects. Amaral, Jesús Eduardo, FAIA (1927, Humacao, PR) Founder and first Director (1966–69) of the School of Architecture-University of Puerto Rico. Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Recipient of the Henry Klumb Award 1985. Important works include Hotel Delicias, San Juan, PR (1960), Condominio ...
87001824 [ 1] Added to NRHP. 29 October 1987. Casa Oppenheimer (English: Oppenheimer House) is a historic house in Ponce, Puerto Rico, designed in 1913 by famed Puerto Rican architect Alfredo B. Wiechers. The house is unique among other historic structures in historic Ponce for its skillful incorporation of front gardens in a very limited urban ...
Ponce Creole. Ponce Creole is an architectural style created in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in the late 19th and early 20th century. This style of Puerto Rican buildings is found predominantly in residential homes in Ponce that developed between 1895 and 1920. Ponce Creole architecture borrows heavily from the traditions of the French, the Spaniards ...
The Puerto Rico Ilustrado/El Mundo Building represents the embodiment of all the architectural trends of Puerto Rico during the 1920s. As with the other high-rise buildings established at the time in the area, it closely follows the typology of the Chicago school of architecture such as the use of steel-frame buildings with terracotta cladding.
State ( ICP) [1] The Museo de la Arquitectura Ponceña (Museum of Ponce Architecture) is an architecture museum housed at the Casa Wiechers-Villaronga, in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It is preserves the history of the architectural styles of Ponce and Puerto Rico. The Casa Wiechers-Villaronga was acquired and restored by the Institute of Puerto Rican ...
San José Church. San José Church ( Spanish: Iglesia de San José ), located in Old San Juan within the historic colonial zone of the capital of Puerto Rico, is one of the first significant works of architecture on the island. [ 1][ 2] The church is one of the earliest surviving examples of 16th-century Spanish Gothic architecture in the ...
La Ventana al Mar. Coordinates: 18.4583°N 66.0748°W. La Ventana al Mar (English: The Window to the Sea) on Avenida Ashford in the district of Condado, of San Juan, Puerto Rico is a large public space built in 2004 fronting the Atlantic Ocean. The park is flanked by two of Condado's landmark hotels: to the west by the Condado Vanderbilt Hotel ...