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Architectural styles classify architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
 in terms of form, techniques, materials, time period, region, etc. It overlaps with, and emerges from the study of the evolution and history of architecture. In architectural history
Architectural History

Architectural History is the main journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain .The journal is published each autumn....
, the study of Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late Middle Ages. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....
, for instance, would include all aspects of the cultural context that went into the design and construction of these structures. Architectural style is a way of classifying architecture that gives emphasis to characteristic features of design, leading to a terminology such as Gothic "style".

The Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million Object ....
 maintains an interactive online microsite
Microsite

A microsite, also known as a minisite or weblet, is an Internet web design term referring to an individual web page or cluster of pages which are meant to function as an auxiliary supplement to a primary website....
 with an introductory overview of ten architectural styles grouped in four clusters:






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Architectural styles classify architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
 in terms of form, techniques, materials, time period, region, etc. It overlaps with, and emerges from the study of the evolution and history of architecture. In architectural history
Architectural History

Architectural History is the main journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain .The journal is published each autumn....
, the study of Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late Middle Ages. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....
, for instance, would include all aspects of the cultural context that went into the design and construction of these structures. Architectural style is a way of classifying architecture that gives emphasis to characteristic features of design, leading to a terminology such as Gothic "style".

The Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million Object ....
 maintains an interactive online microsite
Microsite

A microsite, also known as a minisite or weblet, is an Internet web design term referring to an individual web page or cluster of pages which are meant to function as an auxiliary supplement to a primary website....
 with an introductory overview of ten architectural styles grouped in four clusters:
  • Modern
    Modern architecture

    Modern architecture is a set of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of Ornament ....
    , High-Tech
    High-Tech Architecture

    High-tech architecture, also known as Late Modernism or Structural Expressionism, is an architectural style that emerged in the 1970s, incorporating elements of high-tech industry and technology into building design....
     and Postmodern
    Postmodern architecture

    Postmodern architecture was an international style whose first examples are generally cited as being from the 1950s, and which continues to influence present-day architecture....
  • East Asian
    Chinese architecture

    Chinese architecture refers to a style of architecture that has taken shape in Asia over many centuries. The structural principles of China architecture have remained largely unchanged, the main changes being only the decorative details....
    , South Asian
    Indian architecture

    The architecture of India is rooted in its History of India, Culture of India and Indian religions. Indian architecture progressed with time and assimilated the many influences that came as a result of India's global discourse with other regions of the world throughout its millennia old past....
     and Spanish Islamic
    Moorish architecture

    Moorish architecture is a term used to describe the articulation Islamic architecture of North Africa and parts of Spain and Portugal where the Moors were dominant from 711-1492....
  • Gothic
    Gothic architecture

    Gothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late Middle Ages. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....
     and Gothic Revival
    Gothic Revival architecture

    The Gothic Revival is an Architectural style which began in the 1740s in England. Its popularity grew rapidly in the early nineteenth century, when increasingly serious and learned admirers of neo-Gothic styles sought to revive Middle Ages forms in contrast to the Neoclassical architecture styles which were then prevalent....
  • Classical
    Classical architecture

    Classical architecture is the set of building styles and techniques of Classical Greece, as used in ancient Greece, the Hellenistic period, and the Roman empire....
     and Classical Revival
    Neoclassical architecture

    Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the Neoclassicism that began in the mid-18th century, both as a reaction against the Rococo style of anti-tectonic naturalistic ornament, and an outgrowth of some classicizing features of Baroque architecture....
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Pre-history to the present

  • Neolithic architecture
    Neolithic architecture

    Neolithic architecture is the architecture of the Neolithic period. In Southwest Asia, Neolithic cultures appear soon after 10000 BC, initially in the Levant and from there spread eastwards and westwards....
     10,000 BC-3000 BC
  • Sumerian architecture
    Sumerian architecture

    The Sumerians were people who lived in Mesopotamia from the 4th millennium BC to the 3rd millennium BC. Their accomplishments include, the invention of urban planning, the courtyard house, and the Ziggurats ....
     5300 BC-2000 BC
  • Phoenician architecture 3,000 BC-500 AD
  • Ancient Egyptian architecture
    Ancient Egyptian architecture

    The Nile valley has been the site of one of the most influential civilizations which developed a vast array of diverse structures encompassing ancient Egyptian architecture....
     3000 BC-373 AD
  • Classical architecture
    Classical architecture

    Classical architecture is the set of building styles and techniques of Classical Greece, as used in ancient Greece, the Hellenistic period, and the Roman empire....
     600 BC-323 AD
    • Ancient Greek architecture 776 BC-265 BC
    • Roman architecture
      Roman architecture

      The Architecture of Ancient Rome adopted the external Greek Architecture for their own purposes, which were so different from Greek buildings as to create a new architecture style....
       753 BC–663 AD
    • Herodian architecture
      Herodian architecture

      Herodian architecture is a style of classical architecture characteristic of the numerous building projects undertaken during the reign of Herod the Great, the Ancient Rome client king of Iudaea Province#The client kingdom of Judea....
       37 BC-4 BC Judea
  • Architecture of Armenia (IVe s - XVIe s)
  • Merovingian architecture
    Merovingian art and architecture

    Merovingian art and architecture is the art and architecture of the Merovingian dynasty of the Franks, which lasted from the 5th century to the 8th century in present day France and Germany....
     400s-700s France and Germany
  • Anglo-Saxon architecture
    Anglo-Saxon architecture

    Anglo-Saxon architecture was a period in the history of architecture in England, and parts of Wales, from the mid-5th century until the Norman Conquest of 1066....
     450s-1066 England and Wales
  • Byzantine architecture
    Byzantine architecture

    Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire. The empire gradually emerged as a distinct artistic and cultural entity from what is today referred to as the Roman Empire after AD 330, when the Roman Emperor Constantine I moved the capital of the Roman Empire east from Rome to Byzantium....
     527 (Sofia)-1520
  • Islamic Architecture
    Islamic architecture

    Islamic architecture encompasses a wide range of both secular and religious styles from the History of Islam to the present day, influencing the design and construction of buildings and structures in Islamic culture....
     691-present
  • Carolingian architecture
    Carolingian architecture

    Carolingian architecture is the style of north European architecture belonging to the period of the Carolingian Renaissance of the late 8th and 9th centuries when the Carolingian family dominated west European politics....
     780s-800s France and Germany
  • Repoblación architecture
    Repoblación art and architecture

    The title art and architecture of the Repoblaci?n has recently been applied to the creative works, predominantly Architecture, which were completed in the Christian kingdoms of the north of Spain between the ending of the 9th and beginning of the 11th century....
     880s-1000s Spain
  • Ottonian architecture
    Ottonian architecture

    Ottonian Architecture evolved during the reign of Emperor Otto the Great . The style was found in Germany and lasted from the mid 10th century until the mid 11th century....
     950s-1050s Germany
  • Russian architecture
    Russian architecture

    Russian architecture follows a tradition whose roots were established in the Eastern Slavic state of Kievan Rus'. After the Mongol invasion of Rus, Russian architectural history continued in the principalities of Vladimir-Suzdal, and Novgorod Republic, and the succeeding states of Tsardom of Moscow, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and...
     989-1700s
  • Romanesque architecture
    Romanesque architecture

    Romanesque architecture is the term that is used to describe the architecture of Middle Ages Europe which evolved into the Gothic architecture style beginning in the 12th century....
     1000-1300
  • Norman architecture
    Norman architecture

    The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries....
     1074-1250
  • Gothic architecture
    Gothic architecture

    Gothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late Middle Ages. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....
    • Early English Period c.1190—c.1250
    • Decorated Period c.1290–c.1350
    • Perpendicular Period c.1350–c.1550
    • Brick Gothic
      Brick Gothic

      Brick Gothic is a reduced style of Gothic architecture common in Northern Europe, especially in Northern Germany and the regions around the Baltic Sea without natural rock resources....
       c.1350–c.1400
  • Isabelline Gothic
    Isabelline Gothic

    Isabelline Gothic , is the name of an architectural style that was developed in Spain, during Isabella of Castile reign . It is considered to be the last expression of Spanish Gothic architecture, and it has some elements of Renaissance architecture influence....
     1474-1505 (reign) Spain
  • Tudor style architecture
    Tudor style architecture

    The Tudor style in architecture is the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period and even beyond, for conservative college patrons....
     1485–1603
  • Manueline
    Manueline

    The Manueline, or Portuguese late Gothic is the sumptuous, composite Portugal style of architectural ornamentation of the first decades of the 16th century, incorporating maritime elements and representations of the discoveries brought from the voyages of Vasco da Gama and Pedro ?lvares Cabral....
     1495-1521 (reign) Portugal & colonies
  • Spanish Colonial style 1520s–c.1550
  • Elizabethan architecture
    Elizabethan architecture

    Elizabethan architecture is the term given to early Renaissance architecture in England, during the reign of Elizabeth I of England. Historically, the period corresponds to the Cinquecento in Italy, the French Renaissance architecture in France, and the Plateresque style in Spain....
     (b.1533–d.1603)
  • Dutch Colonial
    Dutch Colonial

    Dutch Colonial is a style of American domestic architecture, primarily characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves along the length of the house....
     1615-1674 (Treaty of Westminster) New England
  • Palladian architecture
    Palladian architecture

    Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture derived from the designs of the Republic of Venice architect Andrea Palladio . The term "Palladian" normally refers to buildings in a style inspired by Palladio's own work; that which is recognised as Palladian architecture today is an evolution of Palladio's original concepts....
     1616–1680 (Jones)
  • Churrigueresque
    Churrigueresque

    Churrigueresque refers to a Spanish Baroque style of elaborate sculptural architectural ornament which emerged as a manner of stucco decoration in Spain in the late 1600s and was used up to about 1750, marked by extreme, expressive and florid decorative detailing, normally found above the entrance on the main facade of a building....
    , 1660s-1750s. Spain and the New World
  • English Baroque
    English Baroque

    English Baroque is a casual term sometimes used to refer to the developments in English architecture that were parallel to the evolution of Baroque architecture in continental Europe between the Great Fire of London and the Treaty of Utrecht ....
     1666 (Great Fire)–1713 (Treaty of Utrecht)
  • Sicilian Baroque
    Sicilian Baroque

    Sicilian Baroque is the distinctive form of Baroque architecture that took hold on the island of Sicily, off the southern coast of Italy, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries....
     1693 earthquake–c.1745
  • Chilota architecture
    Chilota architecture

    Chilotan architecture is a unique architectural style that is mainly restricted to Chiloe Island and nearby areas.In part because of its physical isolation from the rest of Chile, and access to different materials, Chilo? has a very special architecture that differs a lot from the typical Spanish Colonial style....
     1600-present Chiloé and southern Chile
  • Ukrainian Baroque
    Ukrainian Baroque

    Ukrainian Baroque or Cossack Baroque is an architectural style that emerged in Ukraine during the Cossack Hetmanate era, in the 17th and 18th centuries....
     late 1600-1800s
  • Georgian architecture
    Georgian architecture

    Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking world to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four Monarchy of the United Kingdom of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United Kingdom, and George IV of the...
     1720-1840s UK & USA
    • American colonial architecture 1720-1780s USA
  • Pombaline style
    Pombaline style

    The Pombaline style was a Portuguese architectural style of the 18th century, named after Sebasti?o Jos? de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marqu?s de Pombal who was instrumental in reconstructing Lisbon after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake....
     1755 earthquake-c.1860 Portugal
  • Gothic Revival architecture
    Gothic Revival architecture

    The Gothic Revival is an Architectural style which began in the 1740s in England. Its popularity grew rapidly in the early nineteenth century, when increasingly serious and learned admirers of neo-Gothic styles sought to revive Middle Ages forms in contrast to the Neoclassical architecture styles which were then prevalent....
     1760s–1840s
  • Neoclassical architecture
    Neoclassical architecture

    Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the Neoclassicism that began in the mid-18th century, both as a reaction against the Rococo style of anti-tectonic naturalistic ornament, and an outgrowth of some classicizing features of Baroque architecture....
    • Adam style
      Adam style

      The Adam style is a style of neoclassicism architecture and design as practised by Scotland architect Robert Adam and his brothers. A book of engraved designs made the "Adam" repertory available throughout Europe....
       1770 UK
    • Federal architecture
      Federal architecture

      File:FirstMeetingHouse.jpgFederal-style architecture occurred in the United States between 1780 and 1830, particularly from 1785 to 1815. The period is associated with the early Republic, and the establishment of the national institutions of the United States....
       1780-1830 USA
    • Empire (style)
      Empire (style)

      The Empire Style, sometimes considered the second phase of Neoclassicism, is an early-19th-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts....
       1804-1814, 1870 revival
  • Jeffersonian architecture
    Jeffersonian architecture

    Jeffersonian Architecture or Jeffersonian Colonial is an American form of Neoclassical architecture or Neo-Palladian based on U.S. president and patriot, Thomas Jefferson's designs of his home, Monticello, his retreat at Poplar Forest, the University of Virginia, and his design of Barboursville for his friend and political ally Jame...
     1790s-1830s Virginia, USA
  • Florida cracker architecture
    Florida cracker architecture

    Florida cracker architecture is a style of woodframe home used somewhat widely in the 19th century in Florida, United States, and still popular with some developers as a source of design themes....
     c.1800-present Florida, USA
  • Italianate 1802
  • Egyptian Revival architecture
    Egyptian Revival architecture

    Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that makes use of the motifs and imagery of Ancient Egypt. It is generally dated to the enthusiasm for Ancient Egypt generated by Napoleon's conquest of Egypt and, in Britain, to Admiral Nelson's defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile in 1798....
     1809–1820s, 1840s, 1920s
  • American Empire (style)
    American Empire (style)

    File:Empire Style Secretary.jpgAmerican Empire is a France-inspired Neoclassicism style of United States furniture and decoration that takes its name and originates from the Empire introduced during the First French Empire period under Napoleon I of France rule....
     1810
  • Biedermeier
    Biedermeier

    In Central Europe, Biedermeier refers to work in the fields of literature, music, the visual arts and interior design in the period between the years 1815 , the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the Revolutions of 1848 and contrasts with the Romanticism era which preceded it....
     1815–1848
  • Russian Revival
    Russian Revival

    The Russian Revival style is the generic term for a number of different movements within Russian architecture, that arose in second quarter of the 19th century and was an eclectic melding of Peter I of Russia Russian architecture and elements of Byzantine architecture....
     1826-1917, 1990s-present
  • Tudorbethan architecture
    Tudorbethan architecture

    The Tudor Revival architecture of the 20th century , first manifested itself in domestic architecture beginning in the United Kingdom in the mid to late 19th century based on a revival of aspects of Tudor style architecture....
     1835–1885
  • Victorian architecture
    Victorian architecture

    The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly employed during the Victorian era. As with the latter, the period of building that it covers may slightly overlap the actual reign, 20 June 1837 ? 22 January 1901, of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom after whom it is named....
     1837 and 1901 UK
    • See also San Francisco architecture
      San Francisco architecture

      San Francisco architecture does not refer to a particular architectural style but to San Francisco's unique status as a major architectural landmark and epicenter....
  • Jacobethan
    Jacobethan

    Jacobethan is the style designation coined in 1933 by John Betjeman to describe the English Revival style made popular from the 1830s, which derived most of its inspiration and its repertory from the English Renaissance , with elements of Elizabethan Architecture and Jacobean architecture....
     1838
  • Carpenter Gothic
    Carpenter Gothic

    Carpenter Gothic, also sometimes called Carpenter's Gothic, and Rural Gothic, is a North American architectural style-designation for an application of Gothic Revival architecture architectural detailing and picturesque massing applied to wooden structures built by house-carpenters....
     USA and Canada 1840s on
  • Queenslander (architecture)
    Queenslander (architecture)

    Queenslander architecture is an architectural style common throughout Queensland, Australia. It is also found in the northern parts of the adjacent state of New South Wales....
     1840s–1960s
    • Australian architectural styles
      Australian architectural styles

      Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.The Indigenous Australians were a largely nomadic people, so there was little indigenous architectural style or tradition to influence the ideas and knowledge that the British settlers brought with them when sett...
  • Romanesque Revival architecture
    Romanesque Revival architecture

    Romanesque Revival is a style of building employed in the late 19th century inspired by the 11th and 12th century Romanesque architecture Architectural style of architecture....
     1840–1900 USA
  • Neo-Manueline
    Neo-Manueline

    Neo-Manueline was a revival architecture and decorative arts style developed in Portugal between the middle of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX Century....
     1840s-1910s Portugal & Brazil


  • Neo-Grec
    Neo-Grec

    Neo-Grec is a term referring to late manifestations of Neoclassicism, early Neo-Renaissance now called the Greek Revival style, which was popularized in architecture, the decorative arts, and in painting during France's Second French Empire, or the reign of Napoleon III, a period that lasted approximately between 1848 and 1865....
     1848 and 1865
  • Adirondack Architecture
    Adirondack Architecture

    Adirondack Architecture refers to the architectural style generally associated with the Great Camps within the Adirondack Mountains area in New York....
     1850s New York, USA
  • Bristol Byzantine
    Bristol Byzantine

    Bristol Byzantine is a variety of Neo-Byzantine architecture that was popular in the city of Bristol from about 1850 to 1880Many buildings in the style have been destroyed or demolished, but notable surviving examples include the Colston Hall, the Granary, Bristol , the Carriage Works, Bristol, and several of the buildings around Victoria...
     1850-1880
  • Second Empire
    Second Empire

    Second Empire is an architectural style that was popular during the Victorian era, reaching its zenith between 1865 and 1880, and so named for the "French" elements in vogue during the era of the Second French Empire....
     1865 and 1880
  • Queen Anne Style architecture
    Queen Anne Style architecture

    The Queen Anne Style is a furniture and decoration style that reached its greatest popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century, manifesting itself in a number of different ways in different countries....
     1870–1910s England & USA
    • Stick Style
      Queen Anne Style architecture

      The Queen Anne Style is a furniture and decoration style that reached its greatest popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century, manifesting itself in a number of different ways in different countries....
       1879-1905 New England
    • Eastlake Style
      Queen Anne Style architecture

      The Queen Anne Style is a furniture and decoration style that reached its greatest popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century, manifesting itself in a number of different ways in different countries....
       1879-1905 New England
    • Shingle Style
      Queen Anne Style architecture

      The Queen Anne Style is a furniture and decoration style that reached its greatest popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century, manifesting itself in a number of different ways in different countries....
       1879-1905 New England
  • National Park Service Rustic
    National Park Service Rustic

    National Park Service Rustic, also colloquially known as Parkitecture, is a style of architecture that arose in the United States National Park System to create buildings that harmonized with their natural environment....
     1872–present USA
  • Chicago school (architecture)
    Chicago school (architecture)

    Architecture of Chicago is famous throughout the world and one style is referred to as the Chicago School. The style is also known as Commercial style....
     1880s and 1890 USA
  • Neo-Byzantine architecture
    Neo-Byzantine architecture

    Neo-Byzantine architecture is an Revivalism , most frequently seen in religious, institutional and public buildings. It emerged in 1840s in Western Europe and peaked in the last quarter of 19th century in the Russian Empire; an isolated Neo-Byzantine school was active in Yugoslavia between World War I and World War II....
     1882–1920s American
  • Art Nouveau
    Art Nouveau

    Art Nouveau is an international Art movement and style of art, architecture and applied art?especially the decorative arts?that peaked in popularity at Fin de si?cle of the 20th century ....
    /Jugendstil c. 1885–1910
    • Modernisme
      Modernisme

      See also: ModernismModernisme also known, in English language, as Catalan modernism, was the Catalonia equivalent to a number of fin-de-si?cle art movements, such as Symbolism , Decadent movement and Art Nouveau / Jugendstil, from roughly 1888 to 1911....
       1888-1911 Catalonian Art Nouveau
    • Vienna Secession
      Vienna Secession

      The Vienna Secession was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian artists who had resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists, housed in the Vienna K?nstlerhaus....
       1897-c. 1905 Austrian Art Nouveau
  • American Craftsman
    American Craftsman

    The American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural style, interior design, and decorative arts style popular from the last years of the 19th century through the early years of the 20th century....
     1890s–1930 USA, California & east
  • Richardsonian Romanesque
    Richardsonian Romanesque

    File:Trinity_Church,_Boston,_Massachusetts_-_front_oblique_view.JPGRichardsonian Romanesque is a architectural style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after architect Henry Hobson Richardson, whose masterpiece is Trinity Church, Boston ....
     1880s USA
  • City Beautiful movement
    City Beautiful movement

    The City Beautiful Movement was a Progressivism reform movement in North American architecture and urban planning that flourished in the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of using beauty and monumental grandeur in cities....
     1890–1900s USA
  • Colonial Revival architecture
    Colonial Revival architecture

    The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style and interior design movement in the United States.In the early 1890s Americans began to value their own heritage and architecture....
     1890s–1915
    • Dutch Colonial Revival c.1900 New England
  • Mission Revival Style architecture
    Mission Revival Style architecture

    The Mission Revival Style was an architectural movement that began in the late 19th century and drew inspiration from the early Spanish missions in California....
     1894-1936
  • American Foursquare
    American Foursquare

    The American Foursquare or American Four Square is an American house style popular from the mid-1890s to the late 1930s. A reaction to the ornate and mass produced elements of the Victorian architecture and other Revival styles popular throughout the last half of the 19th century, the American Foursquare was plain, often incorporatin...
     mid. 1890s-late 1930s USA
  • Functionalism
    Functionalism (architecture)

    Functionalism, in architecture, is the principle that architects should design a building based on the purpose of that building. This statement is less self-evident than it first appears, and is a matter of confusion and controversy within the profession, particularly in regard to modern architecture....
     c.1900-1930s Europe & USA
    • Danish Functionalism 1960s Denmark
  • Pueblo
    Pueblo

    Pueblos are traditional communities of Native Americans in the United States in the southwestern United States of America. The communities are recognized worldwide for their adobe buildings, which are sometimes called "pueblos"....
     style 1898-1990s
  • Prairie Style 1900–1917 USA
  • Heliopolis style
    Heliopolis style

    Heliopolis style is an architectural style specific to an Egyptian district in eastern Cairo. At the beginning of the 20th century, the architects of the Cairo Electric Railways and Heliopolis Oases Company which was the Belgian company responsible for the building of a new suburb ?Heliopolis? ; also had a new style exclusively designed and d...
     1905–c.1935 Egypt
  • Futurist architecture
    Futurist architecture

    Futurist architecture began as an early-20th century form of architecture characterized by anti-historicism and long horizontal lines suggesting speed, motion and urgency....
     1909 Europe
  • Expressionist architecture
    Expressionist architecture

    Expressionist architecture was an architectural movement that developed in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century in parallel with the expressionism visual and performing arts....
     1910–c.1924
  • Amsterdam School
    Amsterdam School

    The Amsterdam School is a style of architecture that arose from 1910 through about 1930 in The Netherlands. The Amsterdam School movement is part of Expressionist architecture, sometimes linked to Brick Expressionism....
     1912–1924 Netherlands
  • Spanish Colonial Revival style
    Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture

    The Spanish Colonial Revival Style was a United States architectural movement that came about in the early 20th century, starting in Florida as a regional expression related to both history and environment....
     1915–1940 USA
  • Bauhaus
    Bauhaus

    ' is the common term for the ', a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught....
     1919–1930s
  • Mediterranean Revival Style 1920s–1930s USA
  • Art Deco
    Art Deco

    Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film....
     1925–1940s Europe & USA
  • Constructivism
    Constructivist architecture

    Constructivist architecture was a form of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s. It combined advanced technology and engineering with an avowedly Communist social purpose....
     1925–1932 USSR
  • Modern movement 1927–1960s
  • International style (architecture)
    International style (architecture)

    The International style was a major architectural style of the 1920s and 1930s. The term usually refers to the buildings and architects of the formative decades of Modernism, before World War II....
     1930–present Europe & USA
  • Postconstructivism
    Postconstructivism

    Postconstructivism was a transitional architectural style that existed in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, typical of early Stalinist architecture before World War II....
     1930–1935 USSR
  • Streamline Moderne
    Streamline Moderne

    Streamline Moderne, sometimes referred to by either name alone, was a late branch of the Art Deco design style. Its architectural style emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements ....
     1930–1937
  • Nazi architecture
    Nazi architecture

    Nazi architecture was an architecture plan and integral part of the Nazi party's plans to create a cultural and spirituality rebirth in Germany as part of the Third Reich....
     1933-1944 Germany
  • Stalinist architecture
    Stalinist architecture

    Stalinist architecture is a term given to architecture of the Soviet Union between 1933, when Boris Iofan's draft for Palace of Soviets was officially approved, and 1955, when Nikita Khruschev condemned "excesses" of the past decades and disbanded the Soviet Academy of Architecture....
     1933–1955 USSR
  • Usonian 1936–1940s USA
  • Soft Portuguese style
    Soft Portuguese style

    The Soft Portuguese style is an architectural model used in public and private buildings in Portugal, essentially during the 1940s and the early 1950s....
     1940-1955 Portugal & colonies
  • Ranch-style
    Ranch-style house

    Ranch-style houses is a uniquely American domestic architectural style. First built in the 1920s, the ranch style was extremely popular in the United States during the 1940s to 1970s, as new suburbs were built for the Greatest Generation and later the Silent Generation....
     1940s-1970s USA
  • New town
    New town

    A new town, planned community or planned city is a city, town, or community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed in a previously undeveloped area....
    s 1946-1968 United Kingdom
  • Mid-century modern
    Mid-century modern

    Mid-Century modern is an architectural, interior and product design form that generally describes mid-20th century developments in modern design, architecture, and urban development from roughly 1933 to 1965....
     1950s California, etc.
  • Florida Modern 1950s or Tropical Modern
  • Googie architecture
    Googie architecture

    File:SpaceNeedleTopClose.jpgGoogie architecture is a form of novelty architecture and a subdivision of futurist architecture, influenced by automobile culture and the Space Age and Atomic Age....
     1950s USA
  • Brutalist architecture
    Brutalist architecture

    Brutalist architecture is a style of architecture which flourished from the 1950s to the mid 1970s, spawned from the Modern architecture movement....
     1950s–1970s
  • Structuralism (architecture)
    Structuralism (architecture)

    Structuralism as a movement in architecture and urban planning evolved around the middle of the 20th century. It was a reaction to Congr?s International d'Architecture Moderne , which had led to a lifeless expression of urban planning that ignored the identity of the inhabitants and urban forms....
     1950s-1970s
  • Metabolist Movement
    Metabolist Movement

    In 1959 a group of Japanese architects and city planners joined forces under the name the Metabolists. Their vision of a city of the future inhabited by a mass society was characterized by large scale, flexible and extensible structures that enable an organic growth process....
     1959 Japan
  • Arcology
    Arcology

    Arcology, from the words "architecture" and "ecology," is a set of architectural design principles aimed toward the design of enormous habitats of extremely high human population density....
     1970s-present
  • Structural Expressionism 1980s-present
  • Postmodern architecture
    Postmodern architecture

    Postmodern architecture was an international style whose first examples are generally cited as being from the 1950s, and which continues to influence present-day architecture....
     1980s
  • Deconstructivism
    Deconstructivism

    Deconstructivism in architecture, also called deconstruction, is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s. It is characterized by ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure's surface or skin, non-Rectilinear polygon shapes which serve to distort and dislocate some of the Desig...
     1982–present
  • Memphis Group
    Memphis Group

    The Memphis Group was an influential Italy design and architecture movement of the 1980s....
     1981-1988
  • Blobitecture
    Blobitecture

    Blobitecture from blob architecture, blobism or blobismus are terms for a movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped, bulging form....
     2003–present
  • Interactive architecture
    Interactive architecture

    Interactive architecture is a branch of architecture that specializes on interactivity between physical spaces and users, either for aesthetic or practical effect....
     2000-present


Alphabetical listing

  • Adam style
    Adam style

    The Adam style is a style of neoclassicism architecture and design as practised by Scotland architect Robert Adam and his brothers. A book of engraved designs made the "Adam" repertory available throughout Europe....
     1770 England
  • Adirondack Architecture
    Adirondack Architecture

    Adirondack Architecture refers to the architectural style generally associated with the Great Camps within the Adirondack Mountains area in New York....
     1850s New York, USA
  • Anglo-Saxon architecture
    Anglo-Saxon architecture

    Anglo-Saxon architecture was a period in the history of architecture in England, and parts of Wales, from the mid-5th century until the Norman Conquest of 1066....
     450s-1066 England and Wales
  • American colonial architecture 1720-1780s USA
  • American Craftsman
    American Craftsman

    The American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural style, interior design, and decorative arts style popular from the last years of the 19th century through the early years of the 20th century....
     1890s–1930 USA, California & east
  • American Empire (style)
    American Empire (style)

    File:Empire Style Secretary.jpgAmerican Empire is a France-inspired Neoclassicism style of United States furniture and decoration that takes its name and originates from the Empire introduced during the First French Empire period under Napoleon I of France rule....
     1810
  • American Foursquare
    American Foursquare

    The American Foursquare or American Four Square is an American house style popular from the mid-1890s to the late 1930s. A reaction to the ornate and mass produced elements of the Victorian architecture and other Revival styles popular throughout the last half of the 19th century, the American Foursquare was plain, often incorporatin...
     mid. 1890s-late 1930s USA
  • Amsterdam School
    Amsterdam School

    The Amsterdam School is a style of architecture that arose from 1910 through about 1930 in The Netherlands. The Amsterdam School movement is part of Expressionist architecture, sometimes linked to Brick Expressionism....
     1912–1924 Netherlands
  • Ancient Egyptian architecture
    Ancient Egyptian architecture

    The Nile valley has been the site of one of the most influential civilizations which developed a vast array of diverse structures encompassing ancient Egyptian architecture....
     3000 BC–373 AD
  • Ancient Greek architecture 776 BC-265 BC
  • Arcology
    Arcology

    Arcology, from the words "architecture" and "ecology," is a set of architectural design principles aimed toward the design of enormous habitats of extremely high human population density....
     1970s-present
  • Art Deco
    Art Deco

    Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film....
     1925–1940s Europe & USA
  • Art Nouveau
    Art Nouveau

    Art Nouveau is an international Art movement and style of art, architecture and applied art?especially the decorative arts?that peaked in popularity at Fin de si?cle of the 20th century ....
     c. 1885–1910
  • Australian architectural styles
    Australian architectural styles

    Australian architectural styles, like the revivalist trends which dominated Europe for centuries, have been primarily derivative.The Indigenous Australians were a largely nomadic people, so there was little indigenous architectural style or tradition to influence the ideas and knowledge that the British settlers brought with them when sett...
  • Baroque architecture
    Baroque architecture

    Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state....
  • Bauhaus
    Bauhaus

    ' is the common term for the ', a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught....
     1919–1930s
  • Beaux-Arts architecture
    Beaux-Arts architecture

    Beaux-Arts architecture denotes the academic Neoclassical architecture architectural style that was taught at the ?cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris....
  • Biedermeier
    Biedermeier

    In Central Europe, Biedermeier refers to work in the fields of literature, music, the visual arts and interior design in the period between the years 1815 , the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the Revolutions of 1848 and contrasts with the Romanticism era which preceded it....
     1815–1848
  • Blobitecture
    Blobitecture

    Blobitecture from blob architecture, blobism or blobismus are terms for a movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped, bulging form....
     2003–present
  • Brick Gothic
    Brick Gothic

    Brick Gothic is a reduced style of Gothic architecture common in Northern Europe, especially in Northern Germany and the regions around the Baltic Sea without natural rock resources....
     c.1350–c.1400s
  • Bristol Byzantine
    Bristol Byzantine

    Bristol Byzantine is a variety of Neo-Byzantine architecture that was popular in the city of Bristol from about 1850 to 1880Many buildings in the style have been destroyed or demolished, but notable surviving examples include the Colston Hall, the Granary, Bristol , the Carriage Works, Bristol, and several of the buildings around Victoria...
     1850-1880
  • Brutalist architecture
    Brutalist architecture

    Brutalist architecture is a style of architecture which flourished from the 1950s to the mid 1970s, spawned from the Modern architecture movement....
     1950s–1970s
  • Byzantine architecture
    Byzantine architecture

    Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire. The empire gradually emerged as a distinct artistic and cultural entity from what is today referred to as the Roman Empire after AD 330, when the Roman Emperor Constantine I moved the capital of the Roman Empire east from Rome to Byzantium....
     527 (Sofia)-1520
  • Carolingian architecture
    Carolingian architecture

    Carolingian architecture is the style of north European architecture belonging to the period of the Carolingian Renaissance of the late 8th and 9th centuries when the Carolingian family dominated west European politics....
     780s-800s France and Germany
  • Carpenter Gothic
    Carpenter Gothic

    Carpenter Gothic, also sometimes called Carpenter's Gothic, and Rural Gothic, is a North American architectural style-designation for an application of Gothic Revival architecture architectural detailing and picturesque massing applied to wooden structures built by house-carpenters....
     USA and Canada 1840s on
  • Chicago school (architecture)
    Chicago school (architecture)

    Architecture of Chicago is famous throughout the world and one style is referred to as the Chicago School. The style is also known as Commercial style....
     1880s and 1890 USA
  • Chilota architecture
    Chilota architecture

    Chilotan architecture is a unique architectural style that is mainly restricted to Chiloe Island and nearby areas.In part because of its physical isolation from the rest of Chile, and access to different materials, Chilo? has a very special architecture that differs a lot from the typical Spanish Colonial style....
     1600-present Chiloé and southern Chile
  • Churrigueresque
    Churrigueresque

    Churrigueresque refers to a Spanish Baroque style of elaborate sculptural architectural ornament which emerged as a manner of stucco decoration in Spain in the late 1600s and was used up to about 1750, marked by extreme, expressive and florid decorative detailing, normally found above the entrance on the main facade of a building....
    , 1660s-1750s. Spain and the New World
  • City Beautiful movement
    City Beautiful movement

    The City Beautiful Movement was a Progressivism reform movement in North American architecture and urban planning that flourished in the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of using beauty and monumental grandeur in cities....
     1890–1900s USA
  • Classical architecture
    Classical architecture

    Classical architecture is the set of building styles and techniques of Classical Greece, as used in ancient Greece, the Hellenistic period, and the Roman empire....
     600 BC-323 AD
  • Colonial Revival architecture
    Colonial Revival architecture

    The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style and interior design movement in the United States.In the early 1890s Americans began to value their own heritage and architecture....
  • Constructivist architecture
    Constructivist architecture

    Constructivist architecture was a form of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s. It combined advanced technology and engineering with an avowedly Communist social purpose....
  • Danish Functionalism 1960s Denmark
  • Deconstructivism
    Deconstructivism

    Deconstructivism in architecture, also called deconstruction, is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s. It is characterized by ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure's surface or skin, non-Rectilinear polygon shapes which serve to distort and dislocate some of the Desig...
     1982–present
  • Decorated Period c.1290–c.1350
  • Dutch Colonial
    Dutch Colonial

    Dutch Colonial is a style of American domestic architecture, primarily characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves along the length of the house....
     1615-1674 (Treaty of Westminster) New England
  • Dutch Colonial Revival c.1900 New England
  • Early English Period c.1190—c.1250
  • Eastlake Style
    Queen Anne Style architecture

    The Queen Anne Style is a furniture and decoration style that reached its greatest popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century, manifesting itself in a number of different ways in different countries....
     1879-1905 New England
  • Egyptian Revival architecture
    Egyptian Revival architecture

    Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that makes use of the motifs and imagery of Ancient Egypt. It is generally dated to the enthusiasm for Ancient Egypt generated by Napoleon's conquest of Egypt and, in Britain, to Admiral Nelson's defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile in 1798....
     1809–1820s, 1840s, 1920s
  • Elizabethan architecture
    Elizabethan architecture

    Elizabethan architecture is the term given to early Renaissance architecture in England, during the reign of Elizabeth I of England. Historically, the period corresponds to the Cinquecento in Italy, the French Renaissance architecture in France, and the Plateresque style in Spain....
     (b.1533 – d.1603)
  • Empire (style)
    Empire (style)

    The Empire Style, sometimes considered the second phase of Neoclassicism, is an early-19th-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts....
     1804-1814, 1870 revival
  • English Baroque
    English Baroque

    English Baroque is a casual term sometimes used to refer to the developments in English architecture that were parallel to the evolution of Baroque architecture in continental Europe between the Great Fire of London and the Treaty of Utrecht ....
     1666 (Great Fire)–1713 (Treaty of Utrecht)
  • Expressionist architecture
    Expressionist architecture

    Expressionist architecture was an architectural movement that developed in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century in parallel with the expressionism visual and performing arts....
     1910–c.1924
  • Federal architecture
    Federal architecture

    File:FirstMeetingHouse.jpgFederal-style architecture occurred in the United States between 1780 and 1830, particularly from 1785 to 1815. The period is associated with the early Republic, and the establishment of the national institutions of the United States....
     1780-1830 USA
  • Florida cracker architecture
    Florida cracker architecture

    Florida cracker architecture is a style of woodframe home used somewhat widely in the 19th century in Florida, United States, and still popular with some developers as a source of design themes....
     c.1800-present Florida, USA
  • Florida Modern 1950s or Tropical Modern
  • Functionalism
    Functionalism (architecture)

    Functionalism, in architecture, is the principle that architects should design a building based on the purpose of that building. This statement is less self-evident than it first appears, and is a matter of confusion and controversy within the profession, particularly in regard to modern architecture....
     c.1900-1930s Europe & USA
  • Futurist architecture
    Futurist architecture

    Futurist architecture began as an early-20th century form of architecture characterized by anti-historicism and long horizontal lines suggesting speed, motion and urgency....
     1909 Europe
  • Georgian architecture
    Georgian architecture

    Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking world to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four Monarchy of the United Kingdom of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United Kingdom, and George IV of the...
     1720-1840s UK & USA
  • Googie architecture
    Googie architecture

    File:SpaceNeedleTopClose.jpgGoogie architecture is a form of novelty architecture and a subdivision of futurist architecture, influenced by automobile culture and the Space Age and Atomic Age....
     1950s America
  • Gothic architecture
    Gothic architecture

    Gothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late Middle Ages. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....
  • Gothic Revival architecture
    Gothic Revival architecture

    The Gothic Revival is an Architectural style which began in the 1740s in England. Its popularity grew rapidly in the early nineteenth century, when increasingly serious and learned admirers of neo-Gothic styles sought to revive Middle Ages forms in contrast to the Neoclassical architecture styles which were then prevalent....
     1760s–1840s
  • Greek Revival architecture
    Greek Revival architecture

    The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States....
  • Heliopolis style
    Heliopolis style

    Heliopolis style is an architectural style specific to an Egyptian district in eastern Cairo. At the beginning of the 20th century, the architects of the Cairo Electric Railways and Heliopolis Oases Company which was the Belgian company responsible for the building of a new suburb ?Heliopolis? ; also had a new style exclusively designed and d...
     1905–c.1935 Egypt
  • Interactive architecture
    Interactive architecture

    Interactive architecture is a branch of architecture that specializes on interactivity between physical spaces and users, either for aesthetic or practical effect....
     2000-present
  • International style (architecture)
    International style (architecture)

    The International style was a major architectural style of the 1920s and 1930s. The term usually refers to the buildings and architects of the formative decades of Modernism, before World War II....
     1930–present
  • Isabelline Gothic
    Isabelline Gothic

    Isabelline Gothic , is the name of an architectural style that was developed in Spain, during Isabella of Castile reign . It is considered to be the last expression of Spanish Gothic architecture, and it has some elements of Renaissance architecture influence....
     1474-1505 (reign) Spain
  • Islamic Architecture
    Islamic architecture

    Islamic architecture encompasses a wide range of both secular and religious styles from the History of Islam to the present day, influencing the design and construction of buildings and structures in Islamic culture....
     691-present
  • Italianate 1802


  • Jacobethan
    Jacobethan

    Jacobethan is the style designation coined in 1933 by John Betjeman to describe the English Revival style made popular from the 1830s, which derived most of its inspiration and its repertory from the English Renaissance , with elements of Elizabethan Architecture and Jacobean architecture....
     1838
  • Jeffersonian architecture
    Jeffersonian architecture

    Jeffersonian Architecture or Jeffersonian Colonial is an American form of Neoclassical architecture or Neo-Palladian based on U.S. president and patriot, Thomas Jefferson's designs of his home, Monticello, his retreat at Poplar Forest, the University of Virginia, and his design of Barboursville for his friend and political ally Jame...
     1790s-1830s Virginia, USA
  • Jugendstil c. 1885–1910 German term for Art Nouveau
    Art Nouveau

    Art Nouveau is an international Art movement and style of art, architecture and applied art?especially the decorative arts?that peaked in popularity at Fin de si?cle of the 20th century ....
  • Manueline
    Manueline

    The Manueline, or Portuguese late Gothic is the sumptuous, composite Portugal style of architectural ornamentation of the first decades of the 16th century, incorporating maritime elements and representations of the discoveries brought from the voyages of Vasco da Gama and Pedro ?lvares Cabral....
     1495-1521 (reign) Portugal & colonies
  • Mediterranean Revival Style 1920s–1930s USA
  • Memphis Group
    Memphis Group

    The Memphis Group was an influential Italy design and architecture movement of the 1980s....
     1981-1988
  • Merovingian architecture
    Merovingian art and architecture

    Merovingian art and architecture is the art and architecture of the Merovingian dynasty of the Franks, which lasted from the 5th century to the 8th century in present day France and Germany....
     400s-700s France and Germany
  • Metabolist Movement
    Metabolist Movement

    In 1959 a group of Japanese architects and city planners joined forces under the name the Metabolists. Their vision of a city of the future inhabited by a mass society was characterized by large scale, flexible and extensible structures that enable an organic growth process....
     1959 Japan
  • Mid-century modern
    Mid-century modern

    Mid-Century modern is an architectural, interior and product design form that generally describes mid-20th century developments in modern design, architecture, and urban development from roughly 1933 to 1965....
     1950s California, etc.
  • Mission Revival Style architecture
    Mission Revival Style architecture

    The Mission Revival Style was an architectural movement that began in the late 19th century and drew inspiration from the early Spanish missions in California....
     1894-1936
  • Modern movement 1927–1960s
  • Modernisme
    Modernisme

    See also: ModernismModernisme also known, in English language, as Catalan modernism, was the Catalonia equivalent to a number of fin-de-si?cle art movements, such as Symbolism , Decadent movement and Art Nouveau / Jugendstil, from roughly 1888 to 1911....
     1888-1911 Catalonian Art Nouveau
  • National Park Service Rustic
    National Park Service Rustic

    National Park Service Rustic, also colloquially known as Parkitecture, is a style of architecture that arose in the United States National Park System to create buildings that harmonized with their natural environment....
     1872–present USA
  • Nazi architecture
    Nazi architecture

    Nazi architecture was an architecture plan and integral part of the Nazi party's plans to create a cultural and spirituality rebirth in Germany as part of the Third Reich....
     1933-1944 Germany
  • Neo-Byzantine architecture
    Neo-Byzantine architecture

    Neo-Byzantine architecture is an Revivalism , most frequently seen in religious, institutional and public buildings. It emerged in 1840s in Western Europe and peaked in the last quarter of 19th century in the Russian Empire; an isolated Neo-Byzantine school was active in Yugoslavia between World War I and World War II....
     1882–1920s American
  • Neoclassical architecture
    Neoclassical architecture

    Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the Neoclassicism that began in the mid-18th century, both as a reaction against the Rococo style of anti-tectonic naturalistic ornament, and an outgrowth of some classicizing features of Baroque architecture....
  • Neo-Grec
    Neo-Grec

    Neo-Grec is a term referring to late manifestations of Neoclassicism, early Neo-Renaissance now called the Greek Revival style, which was popularized in architecture, the decorative arts, and in painting during France's Second French Empire, or the reign of Napoleon III, a period that lasted approximately between 1848 and 1865....
     1848 and 1865
  • Neo-gothic architecture
  • Neolithic architecture
    Neolithic architecture

    Neolithic architecture is the architecture of the Neolithic period. In Southwest Asia, Neolithic cultures appear soon after 10000 BC, initially in the Levant and from there spread eastwards and westwards....
     10,000 BC-3000 BC
  • Neo-Manueline
    Neo-Manueline

    Neo-Manueline was a revival architecture and decorative arts style developed in Portugal between the middle of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX Century....
     1840s-1910s Portugal & Brazil
  • New town
    New town

    A new town, planned community or planned city is a city, town, or community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed in a previously undeveloped area....
    s 1946-1968 Unitehttp://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/button_link.pngd Kingdom
  • Norman architecture
    Norman architecture

    The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries....
     1074-1250
  • Ottonian architecture
    Ottonian architecture

    Ottonian Architecture evolved during the reign of Emperor Otto the Great . The style was found in Germany and lasted from the mid 10th century until the mid 11th century....
     950s-1050s Germany
  • Palladian architecture
    Palladian architecture

    Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture derived from the designs of the Republic of Venice architect Andrea Palladio . The term "Palladian" normally refers to buildings in a style inspired by Palladio's own work; that which is recognised as Palladian architecture today is an evolution of Palladio's original concepts....
     1616–1680 (Jones)
  • Perpendicular Period c.1350–c.1550
  • Pombaline style
    Pombaline style

    The Pombaline style was a Portuguese architectural style of the 18th century, named after Sebasti?o Jos? de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marqu?s de Pombal who was instrumental in reconstructing Lisbon after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake....
     1755 earthquake-c.1860 Portugal
  • Postmodern architecture
    Postmodern architecture

    Postmodern architecture was an international style whose first examples are generally cited as being from the 1950s, and which continues to influence present-day architecture....
     1980s
  • Polish Cathedral Style
    Polish Cathedral style

    The Polish Cathedral architecture style of North-American Catholic church is a genre of church architecture found throughout the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic States regions as well as in parts of New England in North America....
     1870-1930
  • Polite architecture
    Polite architecture

    Polite architecture, or "the Polite" refers to buildings designed to include the artifice of non-local styles for decorative effect by professional architects....
  • Prairie Style 1900–1917 USA
  • Pueblo
    Pueblo

    Pueblos are traditional communities of Native Americans in the United States in the southwestern United States of America. The communities are recognized worldwide for their adobe buildings, which are sometimes called "pueblos"....
     style 1898-1990s
  • Queen Anne Style architecture
    Queen Anne Style architecture

    The Queen Anne Style is a furniture and decoration style that reached its greatest popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century, manifesting itself in a number of different ways in different countries....
     1870–1910s UK & USA
  • Queenslander (architecture)
    Queenslander (architecture)

    Queenslander architecture is an architectural style common throughout Queensland, Australia. It is also found in the northern parts of the adjacent state of New South Wales....
     1840s–1960s
  • Ranch-style
    Ranch-style house

    Ranch-style houses is a uniquely American domestic architectural style. First built in the 1920s, the ranch style was extremely popular in the United States during the 1940s to 1970s, as new suburbs were built for the Greatest Generation and later the Silent Generation....
     1940s-1970s USA
  • Repoblación architecture
    Repoblación art and architecture

    The title art and architecture of the Repoblaci?n has recently been applied to the creative works, predominantly Architecture, which were completed in the Christian kingdoms of the north of Spain between the ending of the 9th and beginning of the 11th century....
     880s-1000s Spain
  • Regency architecture
    Regency architecture

    The Regency style of architecture refers primarily to buildings built in United Kingdom during the period in the early 19th century when George IV of the United Kingdom was Prince Regent, and also to later buildings following the same style....
  • Richardsonian Romanesque
    Richardsonian Romanesque

    File:Trinity_Church,_Boston,_Massachusetts_-_front_oblique_view.JPGRichardsonian Romanesque is a architectural style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after architect Henry Hobson Richardson, whose masterpiece is Trinity Church, Boston ....
     1880s USA
  • Rococo
    Rococo

    Rococo is a style of 18th century French art and interior design. Rococo rooms were designed as total works of art with elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing architecture, reliefs, and wall paintings....
  • Roman architecture
    Roman architecture

    The Architecture of Ancient Rome adopted the external Greek Architecture for their own purposes, which were so different from Greek buildings as to create a new architecture style....
     753 BC–663 AD
  • Romanesque architecture
    Romanesque architecture

    Romanesque architecture is the term that is used to describe the architecture of Middle Ages Europe which evolved into the Gothic architecture style beginning in the 12th century....
     1050-1100
  • Romanesque Revival architecture
    Romanesque Revival architecture

    Romanesque Revival is a style of building employed in the late 19th century inspired by the 11th and 12th century Romanesque architecture Architectural style of architecture....
     1840–1900 USA
  • Russian architecture
    Russian architecture

    Russian architecture follows a tradition whose roots were established in the Eastern Slavic state of Kievan Rus'. After the Mongol invasion of Rus, Russian architectural history continued in the principalities of Vladimir-Suzdal, and Novgorod Republic, and the succeeding states of Tsardom of Moscow, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and...
     989-1700s
  • Russian Revival
    Russian Revival

    The Russian Revival style is the generic term for a number of different movements within Russian architecture, that arose in second quarter of the 19th century and was an eclectic melding of Peter I of Russia Russian architecture and elements of Byzantine architecture....
     1826-1917, 1990s-present
  • San Francisco architecture
    San Francisco architecture

    San Francisco architecture does not refer to a particular architectural style but to San Francisco's unique status as a major architectural landmark and epicenter....
  • Second Empire
    Second Empire

    Second Empire is an architectural style that was popular during the Victorian era, reaching its zenith between 1865 and 1880, and so named for the "French" elements in vogue during the era of the Second French Empire....
     1865 and 1880
  • Shingle Style
    Queen Anne Style architecture

    The Queen Anne Style is a furniture and decoration style that reached its greatest popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century, manifesting itself in a number of different ways in different countries....
     1879-1905 New England
  • Sicilian Baroque
    Sicilian Baroque

    Sicilian Baroque is the distinctive form of Baroque architecture that took hold on the island of Sicily, off the southern coast of Italy, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries....
     1693 earthquake–c.1745
  • Spanish Colonial Revival style
    Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture

    The Spanish Colonial Revival Style was a United States architectural movement that came about in the early 20th century, starting in Florida as a regional expression related to both history and environment....
     1915–1940 USA
  • Spanish Colonial style 1520s–c.1550
  • Stalinist architecture
    Stalinist architecture

    Stalinist architecture is a term given to architecture of the Soviet Union between 1933, when Boris Iofan's draft for Palace of Soviets was officially approved, and 1955, when Nikita Khruschev condemned "excesses" of the past decades and disbanded the Soviet Academy of Architecture....
     1933–1955 USSR
  • Structural Expressionism 1980s-present
  • Stick Style
    Queen Anne Style architecture

    The Queen Anne Style is a furniture and decoration style that reached its greatest popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century, manifesting itself in a number of different ways in different countries....
     1879-1905 New England
  • Soft Portuguese style
    Soft Portuguese style

    The Soft Portuguese style is an architectural model used in public and private buildings in Portugal, essentially during the 1940s and the early 1950s....
     1940-1955 Portugal & colonies
  • Streamline Moderne
    Streamline Moderne

    Streamline Moderne, sometimes referred to by either name alone, was a late branch of the Art Deco design style. Its architectural style emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements ....
     1930–1937
  • Structuralism (architecture)
    Structuralism (architecture)

    Structuralism as a movement in architecture and urban planning evolved around the middle of the 20th century. It was a reaction to Congr?s International d'Architecture Moderne , which had led to a lifeless expression of urban planning that ignored the identity of the inhabitants and urban forms....
     1950-1975
  • Sumerian architecture
    Sumerian architecture

    The Sumerians were people who lived in Mesopotamia from the 4th millennium BC to the 3rd millennium BC. Their accomplishments include, the invention of urban planning, the courtyard house, and the Ziggurats ....
     5300 BC–2000 BC
  • Tudor style architecture
    Tudor style architecture

    The Tudor style in architecture is the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period and even beyond, for conservative college patrons....
     1485–1603
  • Tudorbethan architecture
    Tudorbethan architecture

    The Tudor Revival architecture of the 20th century , first manifested itself in domestic architecture beginning in the United Kingdom in the mid to late 19th century based on a revival of aspects of Tudor style architecture....
     1835–1885
  • Ukrainian Baroque
    Ukrainian Baroque

    Ukrainian Baroque or Cossack Baroque is an architectural style that emerged in Ukraine during the Cossack Hetmanate era, in the 17th and 18th centuries....
     late 1600-1800s
  • Usonian 1936–1940s USA
  • Victorian architecture
    Victorian architecture

    The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly employed during the Victorian era. As with the latter, the period of building that it covers may slightly overlap the actual reign, 20 June 1837 ? 22 January 1901, of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom after whom it is named....
     1837 and 1901 UK
  • Vienna Secession
    Vienna Secession

    The Vienna Secession was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian artists who had resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists, housed in the Vienna K?nstlerhaus....
     1897-c. 1905 Austrian Art Nouveau


See also

  • Architectural design values
    Architectural design values

    Architectural design values make up an important part of what influences an architect and designer when they make their design decisions. However, architects and designers are not always influenced by the same values and intentions....
  • Feminism and modern architecture
    Feminism and modern architecture

    Feminist theory as it relates to architecture has forged the way for the rediscovery of such female architects as Truus Schr?der-Schr?der and Eileen Gray....
  • List of Art Deco architecture
    List of Art Deco architecture

    This is a list of buildings that are examples of Art Deco....
  • List of Gothic Revival architecture
    List of Gothic Revival architecture

    The following is a list of buildings in the Gothic Revival style....
  • gothicmed
    Gothicmed

    GOTHICmed is a European Union project carried out within the Culture 2000 programme and headed by the Ministry of Culture of the regional government of Valencia , Spain....
  • List of house styles
    List of house styles

    This is a list of styles in residence construction.This list predominately refers to United States architectural styles. Such styles as Tudor, Palladian, Georgian can only be found in their true form in Europe....
  • Religious architecture
    Religious architecture

    Sacred architecture is concerned with the design and construction of place of worship and/or sacred or intentional space, such as Church architecture, Mosque#Architecture, stupas, synagogue architecture, and temples....
    • Cathedral architecture
    • Synagogue architecture
      Synagogue architecture

      Unlike other types of religious architecture where worship buildings often conform to consistent rules for a given architectural period such as the cruciform plan of Gothic churches, or beehive-shaped shikaras of Hindu temple architecture, dominant styles and periods are not present in the history of synagogue architecture....
  • Timeline of architectural styles
    Timeline of architectural styles

    1750?present*Architectural styles from the last 250 years...
  • Timeline of architecture
    Timeline of architecture

    This is a timeline of architecture, indexing the individual year in architecture pages. Notable events in architecture and related disciplines including structural engineering, landscape architecture and city planning....