An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable and historically identifiable. A style may include such elements as form, method of construction, building materials, and regional character. Most architecture can be classified as a chronology of styles which changes over time reflecting changing fashions, beliefs and religions, or the emergence of new ideas, technology, or materials which make new styles possible.
Styles therefore emerge from the history of a society and are documented in the subject of architectural history. At any time several styles may be fashionable, and when a style changes it usually does so gradually, as architects learn and adapt to new ideas. Styles often spread to other places, so that the style at its source continues to develop in new ways while other countries follow with their own twist. A style may also spread through colonialism, either by foreign colonies learning from their home country, or by settlers moving to a new land. After a style has gone out of fashion, there are often revivals and re-interpretations. For instance, classicism has been revived many times and found new life as neoclassicism. Each time it is revived, it is different.
Vernacular architecture works slightly differently and is listed separately. It is the native method of construction used by local people, usually using labour-intensive methods and local materials, and usually for small structures such as rural cottages. It varies from region to region even within a country, and takes little account of national styles or technology. As western society has developed, vernacular styles have mostly become outmoded by new technology and national building standards.
Chronology of styles
Prehistoric
Early civilizations developed, often independently, in scattered locations around the globe. The architecture was often a mixture of styles in timber cut from local forests and stone hewn from local rocks. Most of the timber has gone, although the earthworks remain. Impressively, massive stone structures have survived for years.
Neolithic 10,000-3000 BC
Ancient Americas
Mesoamerican
Talud-tablero
Maya
Mediterranean and Middle-East Civilizations
Phoenician 3000-500 BC
Ancient Egyptian 3000 BC – 373 AD
Minoan 3000?+ BC (Crete)
Knossos (Crete)
Mycenaean 1600-1100 BC (Greece)
Ancient Near East and Mesopotamia
Sumerian 5300-2000 BC
Iranian and Persian
Ancient Persian
Achaemenid
Sassanid
Iranian, c. 8th century+ (Iran)
Persian Garden Style (Iran)
Classical Style – Hayat
Formal Style – Meidān (public) or Charbagh (private)
Casual Style – Park (public) or Bāgh (private)
Paradise garden
Ancient Asian
Indic
Bengalese
Indian
Indian rock-cut architecture
Karnataka
Pakistani
Mauryan 321-185 BC (All India)
Māru-Gurjara Temple Architecture 500-?? (Rajasthan)
Maha-Maru
Maru-Gurjara
Khmer
Indonesian
Historic temple styles
Buddhist Temple 1st century AD
Hindu Temple in 4 styles
Nagara Style
Dravida Style 610-?
Vesara Style (a combination of Nagara and Dravida)
Chalukyan Temple
Sinic
Ancient Chinese wooden architecture
Japanese
Korean
Also
Harappan 3300-1600 BC
Sikh
Classical Antiquity
The architecture of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, derived from the ancient Mediterranean civilisations such as at Knossos on Crete. They developed highly refined systems for proportions and style, using mathematics and geometry.
Classical 600 BC-323 AD
Ancient Greek 776-265 BC
Roman 753 BC-663 AD
Herodian 37-4 BC (Judea)
Early Christian 100-500
Byzantine 527 (Sofia)-1520
The Dark Ages
The European “Dark Ages” are generally taken to run from the end of the Roman Empire, around 400 AD, to around 1000 AD. Relatively little is known of this period, but Christianity (spread by the Romans) was already making a significant impact on European culture, and the Romans left a technological and social legacy.
Europe
Latin Armenian 4th-16th centuries
Anglo-Saxon 450s-1066 (England and Wales)
Bulgarian 681+
The First Bulgarian Empire 681-1018
Tarnavo Artistic School 13th-14th centuries (Bulgaria)
Pre-Romanesque c. 700-1000 (Merovingian and Carolingian empires)
Merovingian 5th-8th centuries (France, Germany, Italy and neighbouring locations)
Visigothic 5th-8th centuries (Spain and Portugal)
Asturian 711-910 (North Spain, North Portugal)
Carolingian 780s-9th century (mostly France, Germany)
Ottonian 950s-1050s (mostly Germany)
Repoblación 880s-11th century (Spain)
Serbian
Raska School 12th-15th centuries
Morava School
Medieval Europe
The dominance of the Church over everyday life was expressed in grand spiritual designs which emphasized piety and sobriety. The Romanesque style was simple and austere. The Gothic style heightened the effect with heavenly spires, pointed arches and religious carvings.
Medieval
Byzantine architecture -1520 (see above)
Kievan Rus’ architecture 988-1237
Romanesque
Pre-Romanesque (see above)
First Romanesque 1000-? (France, Italy, Spain)
(including “Lombard Romanesque” in Italy)
Romanesque 1000-1300
Norman 1074-1250 (Normandy, UK, Ireland, Italy, Malta)
Cistercian monasteries mid-12th century (Europe)
Associated styles
Timber frame styles (UK, France, Germany, Holland)
Tarnovo Artistic School 13th-14th century (Bulgaria)
Architecture of the California missions 1769-1823 (California, US)
Gothic
1140-1520
Gothic
Early English Period c. 1190-c. 1250
Decorated Period c. 1290-c. 1350
Perpendicular Period c. 1350-c. 1550
Rayonnant Gothic 1240-c. 1350 (France, Germany, Central Europe)
Venetian Gothic 14th-15th centuries (Venice in Italy)
Spanish Gothic
Mudéjar Style c. 1200-1700 (Spain, Portugal, Latin America)
Aragonese Mudéjar c. 1200-1700 (Aragon in Spain)
Isabelline Gothic 1474-1505 (reign) (Spain)
Plateresque 1490-1560 (Spain & colonies, bridging Gothic and Renaissance styles)
Flamboyant Gothic 1400-1500 (Spain, France, Portugal)
Brick Gothic c. 1350-c. 1400
Manueline 1495-1521 (Portugal & colonies)
Asian architecture contemporary with the Dark Ages and medieval Europe
Japanese
Shinden-zukuri (Heian Period Japan)
Chinese
Song dynasty architecture
Korean
Hanok
Dravidian and Vesara temple styles (India)
Badami Chalukya aka “Central Indian temple style” or “Deccan architecture” 450-700
Rashtrakuta 750-983 (Central and South India)
Western Chalukya aka Gadag 1050-1200 (Karnataka)
Hoysala 900-1300 (Karnataka)
Vijayanagara 1336-1565 (South India)
Other Indian styles
Kalinga Architecture (Orissa and N Andhra Pradesh)
Rekha Deula
Pidha Deula
Khakhara Deula
Hemadpanthi 1200-? (Maharashtra)
Islamic Architecture 620-1918
Central Styles (Multi-Regional)
Prophetic Era – based in Medina (c. 620-630),
Rashidi Period – based in Medina (c. 630-660),
Umayyad architecture – based in Damascus (c. 660-750),
Abbasid architecture – based in Baghadad (c. 750-1256),
Mamluk architecture – based in Cairo (c. 1256-1517),
Ottoman architecture – based in Istanbul (c. 1517-1918).
Regional Styles
EGYPT:
Early Islamic architecture (Rashidi + Umayyad) (641-750),
Abbasid architecture (750-954),
Fatimid architecture (954-1170),
Ayyubid architecture (1174-1250),
Mamluk architecture (1254-1517),
Ottoman architecture (1517-1820).
NORTH AFRICA (Maghrib):
The Umayyads (705-750),
The Abbasid Era (750-909),
The Fatimids (909-1048),
The Amazigh Dynasties (1048-1550)
Zirids 1048-1148 (Middle Maghreb),
Almoravids 1040-1147 (Far Maghreb),
Almohads 1121-1269 (Far Maghreb),
Hafsids 1229-1574 (Near and Middle Maghreb),
Marinids 1244-1465 (Middle and Far Maghreb),
Zayyanids 1235-1550 (Middle Maghreb),
Ottoman Rule 1550-1830 (Near and Middle Maghreb),
Local Dynasties 1549-present (Far Maghreb).
ISLAMIC SPAIN:
Umayyad architecture (756-1031),
Taifa Kingdoms-1 (1031-1090),
Almoravid architecture (1090-1147),
Taifa Kingdoms-2 (1140-1203),
Almohad architecture (1147–1238),
Taifa Kingdoms-3 (1232-1492)
[Granada architecture (1287-1492)].
PERSIA & CENTRAL ASIA:
Khurasani architecture (Late 7th-10th century),
Razi Style (10th-13th century):
Samanid Period (10th c.)
Ghaznawid Period (11th c.)
Saljuk Period (11th-12th c.)
Mongol Period (13th c.)],
Timurid Style (14th-16th c.),
Isfahani Style (17th-19th c.).
INDIA:
The Umayyads (712),
The Sultanate Era (1193-1555):
Mamluks of the Ghurids 1193-1290 (Delhi)
Khaji Dynasti 1290-1320 (Delhi)
Teghluqid Dynasti 1320-1414 (Delhi)
Bahmanid Sultanate 1347-1527 (Gulbarga)
Sharqi Sultans 1394-1479 (Juanpur)
Gugerat Sultanate 1391-1583 (Ahmadabad)
Lodi & Suri Dynasties 1451-1555 (Delhi)]
Mughal architecture (1526-1707).
TURKEY:
Seljuk architecture (1071-1299),
Ottoman architecture (1299-1922).
American architecture contemporary with the Dark and Middle Ages
Puuc
Maya architecture
Aztec (ca. 14th century-1521)
The Renaissance and its successors
1425-1660. The Renaissance began in Italy and spread through Europe, rebelling against the all-powerful Church, by placing Man at the centre of his world instead of God. The Gothic spires and pointed arches were replaced by classical domes and rounded arches, with comfortable spaces and entertaining details, in a celebration of humanity. The Baroque style was a florid development of this 200 years later, largely by the Catholic Church to restate its religious values.
Renaissance c. 1425-1600 (Europe, American colonies)
Central European Renaissance
Polish Renaissance
French Renaissance
Eastern European Renaissance
Palladian 1516-1580 (Venezia, Italy; revived in UK)
Mannerism 1520-1600
Polish Mannerism 1550-1650
Eastern Orthodox Church 1400?+ (Southeast and Eastern Europe)
United Kingdom
Tudor 1485–1603
Elizabethan 1480-1620?
Jacobean 1580-1660
Spain and Portugal
Spanish Renaissance
Herrerian 1550-1650 (Spain & colonies)
Plateresque continued from Spanish Gothic -1560 (Spain & colonies, Low Countries)
Portuguese Renaissance
Portuguese Plain style 1521-1706 (Portugal & colonies)
Colonial
Portuguese Colonial c. 1480-1820 (Brazil, India, Macao)
Spanish Colonial 1520s-c. 1820s (New World, East Indies, other colonies)
Dutch Colonial 1615-1674 (Treaty of Westminster) (New England)
Chilotan 1600+ (Chiloé and southern Chile)
First Period 1625-1725 pre-American vernacular
French Colonial
Colonial Georgian architecture
Baroque
1600-1800, up to 1900
Baroque c. 1600-1750 (Europe, the Americas)
English Baroque 1666 (Great Fire)-1713 (Treaty of Utrecht)
Spanish Baroque c. 1600-1760
Churrigueresque, 1660s-1750s (Spain & New World), revival 1915+ (southwest US, Hawaii)
Maltese Baroque c. 1635-1798
French Baroque c. 1650-1789
Dutch Baroque c. 1650-1700
Sicilian Baroque 1693 earthquake-c. 1745
Portuguese Joanine baroque c. 1700-1750
Russian Baroque (c. 1680-1750)
Naryshkin Baroque c. 1690-1720 (Moscow, Russian Empire)
Ukrainian Baroque late 17th-18th centuries (Kiev, Russian Empire)
Petrine Baroque c. 1700-1745 (St.Petersburg, Russian Empire)
Elizabethian Baroque 1736-1762 (Russian Empire)
Rococo c. 1720-1789 (France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain)
Asian architecture contemporary with Renaissance and post-Renaissance Europe
Japanese
Shoin-zukuri (1560s-1860s)
Sukiya-zukuri (1530s-present)
Minka (Japanese commoner or folk architecture)
Gassho-zukuri (Edo period and later)
Honmune-zukuri (Edo period and later)
Imperial Crown Style (1919-1945)
Giyōfū architecture (1800s)
Indian
Indo-Islamic
Mughal 1540-? (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh)
Akbari
Mughal Garden Style
Sharqi aka Janpur Style
Neoclassicism
1720-1837 and onward. A time often depicted as a rural idyll by the great painters, but in fact was a hive of early industrial activity, with small kilns and workshops springing up wherever materials could be mined or manufactured. After the Renaissance, neoclassical forms were developed and refined into new styles for public buildings and the gentry.
New Cooperism
Neoclassical
Neoclassical c. 1715-1820
Beaux-Arts 1670+ (France) and 1880 (US)
Georgian 1720-1840s (UK, US)
Jamaican Georgian architecture c. 1750-c. 1850 (Jamaica)
American Colonial 1720-1780s (US)
Pombaline style 1755-c. 1860 (Lisbon in Portugal)
Adam style 1760-1795 (England, Scotland, Russia, US)
Federal 1780-1830 (US)
Empire 1804-1830, revival 1870 (Europe, US)
Regency 1811-1830 (UK)
Palazzo Style 1814-1930? (Europe, Australia, US)
Neo-palladian
Jeffersonian 1790s-1830s (Virginia in US)
American Empire 1810
Greek Revival architecture
Rundbogenstil 1835-1900 (Germany)
Neo-Grec 1845-65 (UK, US, France)
Nordic Classicism 1910-30 (Norway, Sweden, Denmark & Finland)
Polish Neoclassicism (Poland)
New Classical Architecture 20th/21st century (global)
Revivalism and Orientalism
Late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Victorian Era was a time of giant leaps forward in technology and society, such as iron bridges, aqueducts, sewer systems, roads, canals, trains, and factories. As engineers, inventors, and businessmen they reshaped much of the British Empire, including the UK, India, Australia, South Africa, and Canada, and influenced Europe and the United States. Architecturally, they were revivalists who modified old styles to suit new purposes.
Revival architecture
Resort architecture (Germany)
Victorian 1837-1901 (UK)
See also San Francisco architecture
Edwardian 1901-1910 (UK)
Revivals started before the Victorian Era
Gothic Revival 1740s+ (UK, US, Europe)
Scots Baronial (UK)
Italianate 1802-1890 (UK, Europe, US)
Egyptian Revival 1809-1820s, 1840s, 1920s (Europe, US)
Biedermeier 1815-1848 (Central Europe)
Russian Revival 1826-1917 (Russian Empire, Germany, Middle Asia)
Russo-Byzantine style 1861-1917 (Russian Empire, Balkans)
Russian neoclassical revival 1900-1920 (Russian Empire)
Victorian revivals
Renaissance Revival 1840-90 (UK)
Timber frame revivals in various styles (Europe)
Black-and-white Revival 1811+ (UK especially Chester)
Jacobethan 1830-70 (UK)
Tudorbethan aka Mock Tudor 1835-1885+ (UK)
Baroque Revival aka Neo-Baroque 1840?-
Bristol Byzantine 1850-1880
Edwardian Baroque 1901-1922 (UK & British Empire)
Second Empire 1855-1880 (France, UK, US, Canada, Australia)
Napoleon III style 1852-1870 (Paris, France)
Queen Anne Style 1870-1910s (UK, US)
Orientalism
Orientalism
Neo-Mudéjar 1880s-1920s (Spain, Portugal, Bosnia, California)
Moorish Revival (US, Europe)
Egyptian Revival 1920s (Europe, US; see above)
Mayan Revival 1920-1930s (US)
Indo-Saracenic Revival aka Hindu Style, Indo-Gothic, Mughal-Gothic, Neo-Mughal, Hindu-Gothic late 19th century (British India, aka The Raj)
Revivals in North America
Romanesque Revival 1840-1930s (US)
Gothic Revival (see above)
Carpenter Gothic 1870+ (US)
High Victorian Gothic (English-speaking world)
Collegiate Gothic, 1910-1960 (US)
Stick Style 1860-1890+ (US)
Queen Anne Style architecture (United States) 1880-1910s (US)
Eastlake Style 1879-1905 (US)
Richardsonian Romanesque 1880s-1905 (US)
Shingle Style 1879-1905
Neo-Byzantine 1882-1920s (US)
Renaissance Revival
American Renaissance
Châteauesque 1887-1930s (Canada, US, Hungary)
Canadian Chateau 1880s-1920s (Canada)
Mediterranean Revival 1890s+ (US, Latin America, Europe)
Mission Revival 1894-1936; (California, southwest US)
Pueblo Revival 1898-1930+ (southwest US)
Colonial Revival 1890s+
Dutch Colonial Revival c. 1900 (New England)
Spanish Colonial Revival 1915+ (California, Hawaii, Florida, southwest US)
Beaux-Arts Revival 1880+ (US, Canada), 1920+ (Australia)
City Beautiful 1890-20th century (US)
Territorial Revival architecture 1930+
Other late 19th century styles
Australian styles
Queenslander 1840s-1960s (Australian)
Federation 1890-1920 (Australian)
Neo-Manueline 1840s-1910s (Portugal, Brazil)
Dragestil 1880s-1910s (Norway)
Neo-Plateresque and Monterrey Style 19th-early 20th centuries (Spain, Mexico)
Rural styles
Swiss chalet style 1840s-1920s+ (Scandinavia, Germany, later global)
Adirondack 1850s (New York, US)
National Park Service Rustic aka Parkitecture 1903+ (US)
Reactions to the Industrial Revolution
Arts and Crafts in Europe
Arts and Crafts 1880-1910 (UK)
Art Nouveau aka Jugendstil 1885-1910
Modernisme 1888-1911 (Catalan Art Nouveau)
Glasgow Style 1890-1910 (Glasgow, Scotland)
Vienna Secession 1897-1905 (Austrian Art Nouveau)
National Romantic style 1900-1923? (Norway, Sweden, Denmark & Finland)
Arts and Crafts in the US
American Craftsman, aka American Arts and Crafts 1890s–1930 (US)
Prairie Style 1900–1917 (US)
American Foursquare mid-1890s – late 1930s (US)
California Bungalow 1910-1939 (US, Australia, then global)
Modernism and other styles contemporary with modernism
1880 onwards. The Industrial Revolution had brought steel, plate glass, and mass-produced components. These enabled a brave new world of bold structural frames, with clean lines and plain or shiny surfaces. In the early stages, a popular motto was “decoration is a crime”. In the Eastern Bloc the Communists rejected the Western Bloc’s ‘decadent’ ways, and modernism developed in a markedly more bureaucratic, sombre, and monumental fashion.
Chicago School 1880-1920, 1940s-1960s (US)
Functionalism c. 1900-1930s (Europe, US)
Futurism 1909 (Europe)
Expressionism 1910-c. 1924
Amsterdam School 1912-1924 (Netherlands)
Organic architecture
New Objectivity aka Rationalism 1920-1939 (Italy, Germany, Holland, Budapest)
Bauhaus 1919-1930+ (Germany, Northern Europe)
De Stijl 1920s (Holland, Europe)
Moderne 1925+ (US, global)
Art Deco 1925-1940s (global)
List of Art Deco architecture
Streamline Moderne 1930-1937
Modernism 1927-1960s
International Style 1930+ (Europe, US)
Usonian 1936-1940s (US)
Modernism under communism
Constructivism 1925-1932 (USSR)
Postconstructivism 1932-1941 (USSR)
Stalinist 1933-1955 (USSR)
Fascist/Nazi
Fascist architecture
Nazi 1933-1944 (Germany)
Post-Second World War
1945-
Modernism (continued)
International Style (continued)
New towns 1946-1968+ (UK, global)
Mid-century modern 1950s (California, etc.)
Googie 1950s (US)
Brutalism 1950s-1970s
Structuralism 1950s-1970s
Metabolist 1959 (Japan)
Danish Functionalism 1960s (Denmark)
Structural Expressionism aka Hi-Tech 1980s+
Other 20th century styles
Ponce Creole 1895-1920 (Ponce in Puerto Rico)
Heliopolis style 1905-c. 1935 (Egypt)
Mar del Plata style 1935-1950 (Mar del Plata in Argentina)
Minimal Traditional 1930s-1940s (US)
Soft Portuguese 1940-1955 (Portugal & colonies)
Ranch-style 1940s-1970s (US)
Jengki style (Indonesia)
Post-Modernism and early 21st century styles
Post-Modernism 1945+ (US, UK)
Shed Style
Arcology 1970s+ (Europe)
Deconstructivism 1982+ (Europe, US, Far East)
Critical regionalism 1983+
Blobitecture 2003+
Interactive architecture 2000+
Sustainable architecture 2000+
Earthship 1980+ (Started in US, now global)
Green building 2000+
Natural building 2000+
New Classical Architecture 1980+
Fortified styles
Ringfort 800 BC-400 AD
Star fort 1530-1800?
Polygonal fort 1850?-
Vernacular styles
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Vernacular architecture
Generic methods
Natural building
Ice – Igloo, quinzhee
Earth – Cob house, sod house, adobe, mudbrick house, rammed earth
Timber – Log cabin, log house, Carpenter Gothic, roundhouse, stilt house
Nomadic structures – Yaranga, bender tent
Temporary structures – Quonset hut, Nissen hut, prefabricated home
Underground – Underground living, rock-cut architecture, monolithic church, pit-house
Modern low-energy systems – Straw-bale construction, earthbag construction, rice-hull bagwall construction, earthship, earth house
Various styles – Longhouse
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Hut dwelling designs and semi-permanent human shelters
European
European Arctic (North Norway and Sweden, Finland, North Russia) – Sami lavvu, Sami goahti
Northwest Europe (Norway, Sweden, Fresia, Jutland, Denmark, North Poland, UK, Iceland) – Norse architecture, heathen hofs, Viking ring fortress, fogou, souterrain, Grubenhaus (also known as Grubhouse or Grubhut)
Central and Eastern Europe – Burdei, zemlyanka
Bulgaria – Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
Estonia
Germany – Black Forest house, Swiss chalet style, Gulf house (aka East Frisian house), Geestharden house (aka Cimbrian house, Schleswig house), Haubarg, Low German house (aka Low Saxon house), Middle German house, Reed house, Seaside resort house, Ständerhaus, Uthland-Frisian house
Holland – Frisian farmhouse, Old Frisian longhouse, Bildts farmhouse
Iceland – Turf houses
Italy – Trullo
Lithuania – Polish-Lithuanian wooden synagogues
Norway – Architecture of Norway: Post church, Palisade church, Stave church, Norwegian Turf house, Vernacular architecture in Norway, Rorbu, Dragestil, also National Romantic style, Swiss chalet style and Nordic Classicism buildings
Poland – Zakopane, Polish-Lithuanian wooden synagogues, wooden churches of Southern Lesser Poland, Upper Lusatian house
Romania – Carpathian vernacular, wooden churches of Maramureș, Chirpici
Scotland – Medieval turf building in Cronberry, blackhouses
Slovakia – Wooden churches of the Slovak Carpathians
Spain – Asturian teito, Asturian hórreo, Gallician palloza
Ukraine – Wooden churches
United Kingdom – Dartmoor longhouse, Neolithic long house, palisade church, mid-20th-century system-built houses
Scotland – Broch, Atlantic roundhouse, crannog, dun
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European farmhouse types
North American
Shotgun house (US)
Florida Cracker c. 1800+ (Florida, US)
Tidewater (US)
Sibley tent (US)
Sod house (US)
Cape Cod (New England, US)
Saltbox (New England, US)
Farmhouse (US)
Brownstone (US)
Native American
Navajo hogan
Pacific northwest plank house
Plains nations tipi and earth lodge
Wigwam
Northeast nations wetu
Pueblo kiva
Colombian plateau nations quiggly hole
Southwest nations jacal
Southwestern cliff dwellings
Seminole chickee
Sweat lodge, temazcal
Amerindian longhouses
South American
Chile – Chilotan architecture
Venezuela and Chile – Palafito
African
Central and South African countries – Rondavel
Asian
China – Yaodong
Hong Kong – Pang uk
India – Rock-cut, Toda hut
Indonesia – Uma longhouse, attap dwelling
Iran, Turkey – Caravanserai
Iran – Yakhchal
Israel – Rock-cut tombs
Japan – Minka
Mongolia – Yurt
Papua New Guinea – Papua New Guinea stilt house
Philippines – Nipa hut
Russia – Siberian chum
Thailand – Thai stilt house
Australasian
Australia, New Zealand – slab hut
Australia – Aborigine humpy
Alphabetical listing
Adam style 1770 England
Adirondack Architecture 1850s New York, US
Anglo-Saxon architecture 450s-1066 England and Wales
American colonial architecture 1720-1780s US
American Craftsman 1890s-1930 US, California & east
American Empire 1810
American Foursquare mid. 1890s-late 1930s US
Amsterdam School 1912-1924 Netherlands
Ancient Egyptian architecture 3000 BC-373 AD
Ancient Greek architecture 776 BC-265 BC
Arcology 1970s AD-present
Art Deco 1925-1940s Europe & US
Art Nouveau c. 1885-1910
1880s-1920s; UK, California, US
Australian architectural styles
Baroque architecture
Bauhaus
Biedermeier 1815-1848
Blobitecture 2003-present
Brick Gothic c. 1350-c. 15th century
Bristol Byzantine 1850-1880
Brownstone
Brutalist architecture 1950s-1970s
Buddhist architecture 1st century BC
Byzantine architecture 527 AD (Sofia)-1520
Cape Cod 17th century
Carolingian architecture 780s-9th century; France and Germany
Carpenter Gothic US and Canada 1840s on
Chicago school 1880s and 1890 US
Chilotan architecture 1600-present Chiloé and southern Chile
Churrigueresque, 1660s-1750s; Spain and the New World
City Beautiful movement 1890-20th century US
Classical architecture 600 BC-323 AD
Colonial Revival architecture
Constructivist architecture
Danish Functionalism 1960s AD Denmark
Deconstructivism 1982-present
Decorated Period c. 1290-c. 1350
Dragestil 1880s-1910s, Norway
Dutch Colonial 1615-1674 (Treaty of Westminster) New England
Dutch Colonial Revival c. 1900 New England
Early English Period c. 1190-c. 1250
Eastlake Style 1879-1905 New England
Egyptian Revival architecture 1809-1820s, 1840s, 1920s
Elizabethan architecture (b.1533-d.1603)
Empire 1804-1814, 1870 revival
English Baroque 1666 (Great Fire)-1713 (Treaty of Utrecht)
Expressionist architecture 1910-c. 1924
Farmhouse
Federal architecture 1780-1830 US
Federation architecture 1890-1915 Australia
Florida cracker architecture c. 1800-present Florida, US
Florida modern 1950s or Tropical Modern
Functionalism c. 1900-1930s Europe & US
Futurist architecture 1909 Europe
Georgian architecture 1720-1840s UK & US
Googie architecture 1950s America
Gothic Architecture History
Gothic architecture
Gothic Revival architecture 1760s-1840s
Greek Revival architecture
Green building 2000-present
Heliopolis style 1905-c. 1935 Egypt
Indian architecture India
Interactive architecture 2000-present
International style 1930-present
Isabelline Gothic 1474-1505 (reign) Spain
Islamic Architecture 691-present
Italianate architecture 1802
Jacobean architecture 1580-1660
Jacobethan 1838
Jeffersonian architecture 1790s-1830s Virginia, US
Jengki style 1950s Indonesia
Jugendstil c. 1885-1910 German term for Art Nouveau
Manueline 1495-1521 (reign) Portugal & colonies
Mediterranean Revival Style 1890s-present; US, Latin America, Europe
Memphis Group 1981-1988
Merovingian architecture 5th-8th centuries; France and Germany
Metabolist Movement 1959 Japan
Mid-century modern 1950s-60s California, US, Latin America
Mission Revival Style architecture 1894-1936; California, US
Modern movement 1927-1960s
Modernisme 1888-1911 Catalan Art Nouveau
National Park Service Rustic 1872-present US
Natural building 2000-
Nazi architecture 1933-1944 Germany
Neo-Byzantine architecture 1882-1920s American
Neoclassical architecture
Neo-Grec 1848-1865
Neo-gothic architecture
Neolithic architecture 10,000-3000 BC
Neo-Manueline 1840s-1910s AD Portugal & Brazil
New towns 1946-1968 United Kingdom
Norman architecture 1074-1250
Organic Architecture
Ottonian architecture 950s-1050s Germany
Palladian architecture 1616-1680 (Jones)
Perpendicular Period c. 1350-c. 1550
Ponce Creole 1895-1920 Ponce, Puerto Rico
Pombaline style 1755 earthquake-c. 1860 Portugal
Postmodern architecture 1980s
Polish Cathedral Style 1870-1930
Polite architecture
Prairie Style 1900-1917 US
Pueblo style 1898-1990s
Queen Anne Style architecture 1870-1910s UK & US
Queenslander 1840s-1960s
Ranch-style 1940s-1970s US
Repoblación architecture 880s-11th century; Spain
Regency architecture
Richardsonian Romanesque 1880s US
Rococo
Roman architecture 753 BC-663 AD
Romanesque architecture 1050-1100
Romanesque Revival architecture 1840-1900 US
Russian architecture 989-18th century
Russian Revival 1826-1917, 1990s-present
Saltbox
San Francisco architecture
Second Empire 1865-1880
Shingle Style 1879-1905 New England
Sicilian Baroque 1693 earthquake-c. 1745
Southern plantation architecture
Spanish Colonial Revival style 1915-present; California, Hawaii, Florida, Southwest US
Spanish Colonial style 1520s-c. 1820s; New World, East Indies, other colonies
c. 1900–present; California, Florida, US, Latin America, Spain.
Stalinist architecture 1933-1955 USSR
Storybook 1920s
Structural Expressionism 1980s-present
Swiss chalet style 1840s-1920s, Scandinavia and Germany
Stick Style 1860-1890s
Sustainable architecture 2000-present
Soft Portuguese style 1940-1955 Portugal & colonies
Streamline Moderne 1930-1937
Structuralism 1950-1975
Sumerian architecture 5300-2000 BC
Tidewater architecture 19th century
Tudor architecture 1485-1603
Tudorbethan architecture 1835-1885
Ukrainian Baroque late 1600-19th century
Usonian 1936-1940s US
Victorian architecture 1837-1901 UK
Vienna Secession 1897-c. 1905 Austrian Art Nouveau
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