Colonial architecture

Colonial architecture is a hybrid architectural style that arose as colonists combined architectural styles from their country of origin with design characteristics of the settled country. Colonists frequently built houses and buildings in a style that was familiar to them but with local characteristics more suited to their new climate. Below are links to specific articles about colonial architecture, specifically the modern colonies:

Spanish colonial architecture
Spanish colonial architecture is still found in the former colonies of the Spanish Empire in the Americas and in the Philippines. In Mexico, it is found in the Historic center of Mexico City, Puebla, Zacatecas, Querétaro, Guanajuato, and Morelia. Antigua Guatemala in Guatemala is also known for its well-preserved Spanish colonial style architecture. Other cities known for Spanish colonial heritage are Ciudad Colonial of Santo Domingo, the ports of Cartagena, Colombia, and Old San Juan in Puerto Rico.


 * North America
 * Viceroyalty of New Spain
 * New Spanish Baroque
 * Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
 * Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
 * Spanish Colonial Revival architecture


 * Caribbean
 * Spanish West Indies


 * South America
 * Viceroyalty of Peru, Viceroyalty of New Granada, and Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
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 * Asia
 * Spanish East Indies
 * Earthquake Baroque
 * Bahay na Bato
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Portuguese colonial architecture
Portuguese colonial architecture is most visible in Brazil, Madeira, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, Macau, the Malaysian city of Malacca, city of Goa in India, and Moluccas and Java in Indonesia.


 * Asia
 * Sino-Portuguese architecture
 * Centro Histórico de Macau
 * South America
 * Centro Histórico de Macau
 * South America

British colonial architecture
British colonial architecture are most visible in North America, the British West Indies, South Asia, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.


 * North America
 * American colonial architecture
 * Federal Architecture
 * First Period
 * Colonial Georgian architecture
 * British colonial architecture in Canada
 * South Asia
 * British colonial architecture in India
 * British colonial architecture in Pakistan
 * Colonial architecture in Sri Lanka
 * Australia
 * Colonial architecture of Australia
 * Federation architecture
 * Asia-Pacific
 * British colonial architecture in Hong Kong
 * British colonial architecture in Singapore
 * British Consulate at Takao

French colonial architecture
French colonial architecture is most visible in North America and Indochina.
 * Indochina
 * North America
 * French colonial architecture in North America
 * South Asia
 * French colonial architecture in India

Dutch colonial architecture
Dutch colonial architecture is most visible in Indonesia (especially Java and Sumatra), the United States, South Asia, and South Africa. In Indonesia, formerly Dutch East Indies, colonial architecture was studied academically and had developed into a new tropical architecture form which emphasizes on conforming to the tropical climate of the Indies and not completely imitating the architectural language of the Dutch colonists.
 * Indonesia
 * Dutch colonial architecture of Indonesia
 * Old Indies Style
 * Indies Empire style
 * New Indies Style
 * North America
 * Dutch colonial architecture in North America
 * Dutch Colonial Revival architecture
 * South Asia
 * Dutch colonial architecture in India
 * Colonial architecture in Sri Lanka
 * South Africa
 * Cape Dutch architecture

Italian colonial architecture
Italian colonial architecture is visible in Libya which was colonized by Italy after defeating the Ottoman Army in 1912 during the Italo-Turkish War with huge colonial architecture in the capital Tripoli and in other major cities like Benghazi and Misrata.

Eritrea an Italian colony from 1890 to 1941 when the British occupied it during world war 2 with prominent colonial architecture spanning from styles like Art Deco to Neoclassical architecture spread out from the capital Asmara to the smaller towns of Karen with Italian colonial architecture even being a huge tourist attraction of the country.

Somalia was an Italian colony from 1889 to 1941 and again from 1950 to 1960, like Eritrea Italian colonial architecture was spread out across the country in different architectural styles but with the civil war of 1991 and years of violence after most of the Italian colonial architecture being destroyed or decayed with nowadays only a few buildings existing such as the Vila Somalia where the president resides.

The Greek islands of the Dodecanese which was won over during the Italo - Turkish war like Libya with the largest city of the island Rhodes being built entirely by the Italian colonists and its main government buildings also being built by the Italian colonists.