Architectural Style

Architectural styles classify architecture in terms of form, techniques, materials, time period, region, etc. Architectural style overlaps with, and emerges from, the study of the evolution and history of architecture. In architectural history, the study of Gothic 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 maintains an interactive online microsite with an introductory overview of ten architectural styles grouped in four clusters:

• Modern, High-Tech, and Postmodern
• East Asian, South Asian,and Spanish Islamic
• Gothic and Gothic Revival
• Classical and Classical Revival

As one might expect, there are quite a few architectural styles from which to choose, many of which are listed below.

Pre-history to the Present

Neolithic architecture, 10,000 BC–3000 BC Sumerian architecture, 5300 BC–2000 BC Ancient Egyptian architecture, 3000 BC–AD 373 Classical architecture, 600 BC–AD 323  Ancient Greek architecture, 776 BC–265 BC Roman architecture, 753 BC–663 AD Merovingian architecture, 400s–700s, France and Germany Anglo-Saxon architecture, 450s–1066, England and Wales Byzantine architecture, 527–1520 Islamic Architecture, 691–present Carolingian architecture, 780s–800s, France and Germany Repoblación architecture, 880s–1000s, Spain Ottonian architecture, 950s–1050s, Germany Russian architecture, 989–1700s Romanesque architecture, 1000–1300 Norman architecture, 1074–1250 Gothic architecture Early English Period, c. 1190–c. 1250 Decorated Period, c. 1290–c. 1350 Perpendicular Period, c. 1350–c. 1550 Brick Gothic, c. 1350–c.1 400 Isabelline Gothic, 1474–1505 (reign), Spain Tudor style architecture, 1485–1603 Manueline, 1495–1521 (reign), Portugal & colonies Spanish Colonial, 1520s–c. 1550 Elizabethan architecture (b. 1533–d. 1603) Dutch Colonial, 1615–1674 (Treaty of Westminster), New England Palladian architecture, 1616–1680 English Baroque, 1666 (Great Fire)–1713 (Treaty of Utrecht) Sicilian Baroque, 1693 earthquake–c. 1745 Chilota architecture, 1600–present , Chiloé and southern Chile Ukrainian Baroque, late 1600s–1800s Georgian architecture, 1720–1840s, UK & US American Colonial architecture, 1720–1780s, US Pombaline style, 1755 earthquake–c. 1860, Portugal Gothic Revival architecture, 1760s–1840s Neoclassical architecture Adam style, 1770 UK Federal architecture, 1780–1830, US Empire style, 1804–1814, 1870 revival Jeffersonian architecture, 1790s–1830s, Virginia, US Florida cracker architecture, c.1800–present, Florida, US Italianate, 1802 Egyptian Revival architecture, 1809–1820s, 1840s, 1920s American Empire, 1810 Biedermeier, 1815–1848 Russian Revival, 1826–1917, 1990s–present Tudorbethan architecture, 1835–1885 Victorian architecture, 1837 and 1901, UK Jacobethan, 1838 Carpenter Gothic, US and Canada, 1840s on Queenslander, 1840s–1960s Australian architectural styles Romanesque Revival architecture, 1840–1900, US Neo-Manueline, 1840s–1910s, Portugal and Brazil

Neo-Grec, 1848–1865 Adirondack Architecture, 1850s New York, USA Bristol Byzantine, 1850–1880 Second Empire, 1865–1880 Queen Anne style, 1870–1910s, England and US Stick, 1879–1905, New England, US Eastlake, 1879–1905, New England, US Shingle, 1879–1905, New England, US National Park Service Rustic, 1872–present, US Chicago School, 1880s–1890s, US Neo-Byzantine architecture, 1882–1920s, American Art Nouveau/Jugendstil, c. 1885–1910 Modernisme, 1888–1911 Vienna Secession, 1897–c. 1905 American Craftsman, 1890s–1930s, US  Richardsonian Romanesque, 1880s, US City Beautiful movement, 1890–1900s, US Colonial Revival architecture, 1890s–1915 Dutch Colonial Revival, c.1900, New England, US Mission Revival style, 1894–1936 American Foursquare, mid-1890s to late 1930s, US Functionalism, c.1900–1930s Europe and US Danish Functionalism, 1960s Denmark Pueblo style, 1898–1990s Prairie style, 1900–1917, US Heliopolis style, 1905–c.1935, Egypt Futurist architecture, 1909, Europe Expressionist architecture, 1910–c.1924 Amsterdam School, 1912–1924, Netherlands Spanish Colonial Revival style, 1915–1940, US Bauhaus, 1919–1930s Mediterranean Revival style, 1920s–1930s, US Art Deco, 1925–1940s, Europe and US Constructivism, 1925–1932, USSR Modern movement, 1927–1960s International style, 1930–present, Europe and US Postconstructivism, 1930–1935, USSR Streamline Moderne, 1930–1937 Nazi architecture, 1933–1944, Germany Stalinist architecture, 1933–1955, USSR Usonian, 1936–1940s, US Soft Portuguese style, 1940–1955, Portugal & colonies Ranch style, 1940s–1970s, US New towns, 1946–1968, UK Mid-century modern, 1950s, California Florida Modern, 1950s (also Tropical Modern) Googie architecture, 1950s USA Brutalist architecture, 1950s–1970s Structuralism, 1950s–1970s Metabolist movement, 1959, Japan Arcology, 1970s–present Structural Expressionism, 1980s–-present Postmodern architecture, 1980s Deconstructivism, 1982–present Memphis Group, 1981–1988 Blobitecture, 2003–present Interactive architecture, 2000–present

 

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