His work is the kind of modest, distinctive, context-sensitive design that China's cities desperately need more of if they're to avoid becoming one giant sprawl of interchangeable architecture – punctuated only by the flamboyant architectural experiments of previous Pritzker winners.
The use of towers declined somewhat during the Renaissance but reappeared in the more flamboyant Baroque architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Within these landscapes, the early Portuguese settlers left a legacy of flamboyant baroque architecture, intricately carved church facades, convents and monasteries of impressive power.
It is a fantastic scene, with flamboyant imaginary architecture, sensual statues and tiny people as earthen and vulnerable as Bruegel peasants.
Because of the rapid growth of cities like Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where his works once dotted the cityscapes, and because flamboyant commercial architecture was not highly regarded, only a few of his buildings survive.
Although there are about 20 small Caodai temples in California now, most of them are remodeled detached garages, former churches or homes, and this will be the first one to be specially built as a temple, showing the flamboyant and colorful architecture of the Great Temple at Tay Ninh which you visited".
In the 1330s, when the architects of Europe were embracing the Flamboyant style, English architecture moved away from the Flowing Decorated in an entirely different and much more sober direction with the reconstruction, in highly modular form, of the choir of the Norman abbey, now cathedral, at Gloucester.
Other guests include the folk singer Nancy Kerr with some music reflecting the subtle fusion of popular and art music styles from the time, and the baroque ensemble Musica Donum Dei; plus there's a chance to find out more about Kedleston itself - its sumptuous rooms and furnishings, neo-classical architecture, and flamboyant setting.
Gaudi worked from the 1880's until the 1920's, and his whimsical, flamboyant, "Modernisme" style of architecture has been echoed in countless fantasy and science fiction films, TV shows and video games.
Flamboyant style, phase of late Gothic architecture in 15th-century France and Spain.
