Shoebox style

For "shoebox" sized apartments, see Microapartment.

In architecture, shoebox style is a functionalist style of modern architecture characterised by predominantly rectilinear, orthogonal shapes, with regular horizontal rows of windows or glass walls.^[1] Dingbat apartments are an undistinguished shoebox style. The puritan and repetitive shoebox style is seen as a way to low-cost construction.^[2]

A dingbat apartment building

Shoebox style concert halls of rectangular shape are also popular, as opposed to the traditional circular amphitheatre, arena or horseshoe shapes.^[3][4]

See also

• Vineyard style (architecture)

References

1. The Encyclopedia Americana (1989) ISBN 0-7172-0120-1, p. 238.
2. J.J.Coulton, Michael Raeburn (eds.)(1980) Architecture of the Western World, ISBN 0-8478-0349-X, p. 61.
3. Music Halls from the 18th to 20th Centuries: Changes in Acoustical and Architectural Criteria Archived 2006-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
4. "Types & Forms of Theatres" (PDF). Theater Projects Consultants. Retrieved 2019-01-01.