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architectural style An architectural style is a set of characteristics and features that make a building or other structure notable or historically identifiable. It is a sub-class of style in the visual arts generally, and most styles in architecture relate closely ...
s in a graphical fashion.


6000 BC–present

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Carolingian The Carolingian dynasty (; known variously as the Carlovingians, Carolingus, Carolings, Karolinger or Karlings) was a Frankish noble family named after Charlemagne, grandson of mayor Charles Martel and a descendant of the Arnulfing and Pippi ...
" #france and
northern europe The northern region of Europe has several definitions. A restrictive definition may describe Northern Europe as being roughly north of the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, which is about 54°N, or may be based on other geographical factors ...
from:711 till:1492 text:"
Moorish The term Moor, derived from the ancient Mauri, is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages. Moors are not a distinct or s ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #Spain, Portugal, North Africa from:330 till:1520 text:"
Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:-753 till:663 text:"
Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: * Rome, the capital city of Italy * Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lett ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:-776 till:265 text:"
Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic pe ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:-1920 till:-630 text:"
Assyrian Assyrian may refer to: * Assyrian people, the indigenous ethnic group of Mesopotamia. * Assyria, a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire. ** Early Assyrian Period ** Old Assyrian Period ** Middle Assyrian Empire ** Neo-Assyrian Empire * Assyri ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:-2000 till:1519 text:" Mesoamerican" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:-3200 till:373 text:" Ancient Egyptian" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:-4500 till:-2000 text:" Sumerian" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:-6000 till:-2800 text:"
Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several pa ...
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1000AD—present

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New Classical New classical macroeconomics, sometimes simply called new classical economics, is a school of thought in macroeconomics that builds its analysis entirely on a neoclassical framework. Specifically, it emphasizes the importance of rigorous foundat ...
" #at:2005 text:"
Sustainable Specific definitions of sustainability are difficult to agree on and have varied in the literature and over time. The concept of sustainability can be used to guide decisions at the global, national, and individual levels (e.g. sustainable livi ...
" #at:2003 text:"
Blobitecture Blobitecture (from blob architecture), blobism and blobismus are terms for a movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped, building form. Though the term ''blob architecture'' was in vogue already in the mid-1990s, t ...
" #at:1982 text:"
Deconstructivism Deconstructivism is a movement of postmodern architecture which appeared in the 1980s. It gives the impression of the fragmentation of the constructed building, commonly characterised by an absence of obvious harmony, continuity, or symmetry. ...
" #1982–present #at:1981 text:" Memphis Group" #1981–1988 #at:1971 text:" High-tech (Late modernism) #1971–present from:1968 till:2007 text:" Structural Expressionism" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #at:1959 text:" Metabolist Movement" #1959 Japan #at:1952 text:"
Critical regionalism Critical regionalism is an approach to architecture that strives to counter the placelessness and lack of identity of the International Style, but also rejects the whimsical individualism and ornamentation of Postmodern architecture. The stylings ...
" #1952 global from:1950 till:2007 text:"
Postmodernism Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourseNuyen, A.T., 1992. The Role of Rhetorical Devices in Postmodernist Discourse. Philosophy & Rhetoric, pp.183–194. characterized by skepticism toward the " grand narratives" of modern ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #at:1950 text:"
Brutalism Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era. Brutalist buildings are characterised by minimalist constructions that showcase the b ...
" #1950s–1970s #at:1950 text:"
Googie Googie architecture ( ) is a type of futurist architecture influenced by car culture, jets, the Atomic Age and the Space Age. It originated in Southern California from the Streamline Moderne architecture of the 1930s, and was popular in the ...
" #1950s America #at:1950 text:" Mid-century modern" #1950s California, etc. #at:1936 text:"
Usonian Usonia () is a word that was used by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright to refer to the United States in general (in preference to ''America''), and more specifically to his vision for the landscape of the country, including the planning of ...
" #1936–1940s USA #at:1936 text:" Nazi architecture" #1936–1945 Germany #at:1933 text:"
Stalinist Stalinism is the means of governing and Marxist-Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1953 by Joseph Stalin. It included the creation of a one-party totalitarian police state, rapid industrialization, the theory ...
" #1933–1955 #at:1930 text:"
Streamline Moderne Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In industrial desig ...
" #1930–1937 from:1927 till:1976 text:" International style" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1927–1970s #at:1925 text:"
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unit ...
" #1925–1940s #at:1925 text:"
Fascist architecture Fascist architecture encompasses various stylistic trends in architecture developed by architects of fascist states, primarily in the early 20th century. Fascist architectural styles gained popularity in the late 1920s with the rise of modernism a ...
" #1925–1936 Italy #at:1922 text:"
Egyptian Revival Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt. It is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient Egyptian monuments generated by Napoleon's conquest of Egypt and Admiral Nelson's defeat ...
" #1922→
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unit ...
#at:1920 text:"
Mediterranean Revival Mediterranean Revival is an architectural style introduced in the United States, Canada, and certain other countries in the 19th century. It incorporated references from Spanish Renaissance, Spanish Colonial, Italian Renaissance, French Colonia ...
" #1920s–1930s America from:1919 till:1938 text:"
Bauhaus The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 20 ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1919–1930s #at:1915 text:" Spanish Colonial Revival" #1915 and 1931 #at:1914 text:" Constructivism" #1914–1920 from:1914 till:1963 text:"
Modernism Modernism is both a philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, an ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1914–1960 #at:1912 text:" Amsterdam School" #1912–1924 #at:1910 text:"
Expressionism Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it ra ...
" #1910–ca. 1924 #from:1910 till:1930 text:" Nordic Classicism" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #at:1909 text:"
Futurism Futurism ( it, Futurismo, link=no) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects suc ...
" #1909 Europe #at:1905 text:" Heliopolis style" #1905 Egypt #at:1902 text:"
National Romantic style The National Romantic style was a Nordic architectural style that was part of the National Romantic movement during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is often considered to be a form of Art Nouveau. The National Romantic style spread ...
" #1902 Scandinavia #at:1901 text:" Edwardian Baroque" #1901 United Kingdom #at:1900 text:"
Prairie Style Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped ...
" #1900 and 1917 USA #at:1898 text:"
Garden city movement The garden city movement was a 20th century urban planning movement promoting satellite communities surrounding the central city and separated with greenbelts. These Garden Cities would contain proportionate areas of residences, industry, and ...
" #1898–1968 United Kingdom #at:1898 text:" Pueblo Style #1898-1990s USA #at:1894 text:" Mission revival style" #1894–1936 #at:1890 text:"
Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archit ...
" #1890s–today #at:1890 text:"
City Beautiful movement The City Beautiful Movement was a reform philosophy of North American architecture and urban planning that flourished during the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of introducing beautification and monumental grandeur in cities. It was a part of the ...
" #1890–1900s USA #from:1890 till:1938 text:"
American Craftsman American Craftsman is an American domestic architectural style, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, which included interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts, beginning in the last years of the 19th century. Its ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1890s–1930 New England #at:1888 text:"
Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...
" #1895(sic)-1926 #at:1888 text:"
Jugendstil ''Jugendstil'' ("Youth Style") was an artistic movement, particularly in the decorative arts, that was influential primarily in Germany and elsewhere in Europe to a lesser extent from about 1895 until about 1910. It was the German counterpart of ...
" #1888 to 1911 German
Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...
#at:1888 text:"
Modernisme ''Modernisme'' (, Catalan for "modernism"), also known as Catalan modernism and Catalan art nouveau, is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the search of a new entitlement of Catalan cultur ...
" #1888 to 1911 Catalonian
Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...
#from:1880 till:1914 text:" American Renaissance" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #ca 1880 – 1914 #at:1880 text:" Chicago school" #1880s and 1890s #at:1880 text:"
Richardsonian Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revival style incorporates 11th and 12th century southern French, Spanish, and Italian Romanes ...
" #1880s #from:1879 till:1905 text:" Shingle Style" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #or stick style 1879–1905 New England #at:1872 text:"
National Park Service Rustic National Park Service rustic – sometimes colloquially called Parkitecture – is a style of architecture that developed in the early and middle 20th century in the United States National Park Service (NPS) through its efforts to create building ...
" shift:(5,-2) #1872–1916 USA from:1870 till:1914 text:" Queen Anne Style" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1870–1910s UK & USA #at:1865 text:" Second Empire" #1865 and 1880 #at:1863 text:" Beaux-Arts" #at:1860 text:" Arts and Crafts movement" #from:1850 till:1900 text:"
Swiss chalet style Swiss chalet style (german: Schweizerstil, no, Sveitserstil) is an architectural style of Late Historicism, originally inspired by rural chalets in Switzerland and the Alpine (mountainous) regions of Central Europe. The style refers to traditi ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #c.1850 and c.1900 switzerland, norway, US #at:1848 text:" Neo-Grec" #1848 – 1865 #at:1842 text:"
Greek revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but a ...
" #at:1840 text:"
Egyptian revival Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt. It is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient Egyptian monuments generated by Napoleon's conquest of Egypt and Admiral Nelson's defeat ...
" #1840s–1850s #at:1840 text:" Queenslander" #1840s–1960s Australia from:1840 till:1900 text:"
Romanesque revival Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1840–1900 USA #at:1838 text:"
Jacobethan The Jacobethan or Jacobean Revival architectural style is the mixed national Renaissance revival style that was made popular in England from the late 1820s, which derived most of its inspiration and its repertory from the English Renaissance ( ...
" shift:(5,-2) #1838 from:1837 till:1901 text:" Victorian" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #at:1835 text:"
Tudorbethan Tudor Revival architecture (also known as mock Tudor in the UK) first manifested itself in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century. Based on revival of aspects that were perceived as Tudor architecture ...
" shift:(5,-2 #1835–1885 from:1825 till:1917 text:" Russian Revival" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #at:1815 text:"
Biedermeier The ''Biedermeier'' period was an era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle class grew in number and the arts appealed to common sensibilities. It began with the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in ...
" #1815–1848 #at:1812 text:"
Moorish Revival Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of Romanticist Orientalism. It reached the height of its popularity after the mid-19th centu ...
#1812-c.1920 Europe and USA #at:1810 text:" American Empire (style)" #at:1810 text:"
Regency architecture Regency architecture encompasses classical buildings built in the United Kingdom during the Regency era in the early 19th century when George IV was Prince Regent, and also to earlier and later buildings following the same style. The period co ...
" #at:1809 text:"
Egyptian revival Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt. It is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient Egyptian monuments generated by Napoleon's conquest of Egypt and Admiral Nelson's defeat ...
" #1809–1820s #at:1804 text:"
Empire (style) The Empire style (, ''style Empire'') is an early-nineteenth-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts, representing the second phase of Neoclassicism. It flourished between 1800 and 1815 durin ...
" #1804 to 1814, 1870 revival #at:1802 text:"
Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...
" from:1780 till:1830 text:"
Federal architecture Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States between 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was heavily based on the works of Andrea Palladio with several inn ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:1773 till:1850 text:" Pombaline style" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #Portugal #at:1770 text:" Adam style" #1770 United Kingdom from:1760 till:1880 text:"
Gothic revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
" color:gris anchor:from #1760s–1880s from:1750 till:1921 text:" Neoclassical" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #at:1750 #blank line #at:1750 text:" Neoclassical" from:1720 till:1840 text:" Georgian" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1720— from:1697 till:1730 text:" Russian Baroque" shift:(5,-2) color: gris anchor:from #c.1620-c.1720 #at:1693 text:"
Sicilian Baroque Sicilian Baroque is the distinctive form of Baroque architecture which evolved on the island of Sicily, off the southern coast of Italy, in the , when it was part of the Spanish Empire. The style is recognisable not only by its typical Baroque c ...
" #1693 earthquake—c.1745 aka #at:1666 text:"
English Baroque English Baroque is a term used to refer to modes of English architecture that paralleled Baroque architecture in continental Europe between the Great Fire of London (1666) and roughly 1720, when the flamboyant and dramatic qualities of Baroque ...
" #Great Fire (1666) & Treaty of Utrecht (1713) #at:1650 text:"
Rococo Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...
" #1659— from:1650 till:1697 text:" Late Muscovite(Naryshkin)" shift:(5,-2) color: gris anchor:from #c.1620-c.1720 from:1616 till:1690 text:"
Palladianism Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). What is today recognised as Palladian architecture evolved from his concepts of symmetry, perspective and ...
" shift:(0,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1616–1680 (I. Jones) #at:1603 text:" Jacobean" # 1603 – 1625 from:1600 till:1745 text:"
Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1600— from:1560 till:1600 text:" Herrerian" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #c.1560-c.1600 #at:1533 text:"
Elizabethan The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history. The symbol of Britannia (a female personific ...
" #(b.1533—d.1603) from:1550 till:1750 text:" Mughal" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #c.1550s-c.1750s from:1530 till:1630 text:" Middle Muscovite" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #c.1330-c.1630 from:1530 till:1560 text:" Purism" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #c.1530-c.1560 from:1527 till:1600 text:"
Mannerism Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Ital ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1527–1600 #at:1520 text:" Spanish Colonial style" #1520s–c.1550* from:1500 till:1525 text:" High Renaissance" shift:(5,-2) color: gris anchor:from from:1490 till:1550 text:" Manueline" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1490–1550 from:1485 till:1603 text:" Tudor" shift:(5,-2) color: gris anchor:from #1485–1603 from:1400 till:1600 text:"
Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ide ...
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Sondergotik Sondergotik (Special Gothic) is the style of Late Gothic architecture prevalent in Austria, Bavaria, Swabia, Saxony and Bohemia between 1350 and 1550. The term was invented by art historian Kurt Gerstenberg in his 1913 work ''Deutsche Sondergotik ...
" shift:(5,-2) color: gris anchor:from #1350–1550 #at:1350 text:"
Perpendicular Period Perpendicular Gothic (also Perpendicular, Rectilinear, or Third Pointed) architecture was the third and final style of English Gothic architecture developed in the Kingdom of England during the Late Middle Ages, typified by large windows, four-ce ...
" #c.1350–c.1550 #at:1350 text:"
Brick Gothic Brick Gothic (german: Backsteingotik, pl, Gotyk ceglany, nl, Baksteengotiek) is a specific style of Gothic architecture common in Northeast and Central Europe especially in the regions in and around the Baltic Sea, which do not have resourc ...
" #c.1350–c.1400 from:1336 till:1535 text:"
Vijayanagara Vijayanagara () was the capital city of the historic Vijayanagara Empire. Located on the banks of the Tungabhadra River, it spread over a large area and included the modern era Group of Monuments at Hampi site in Vijayanagara district, Bell ...
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Decorated Period English Gothic is an architectural style that flourished from the late 12th until the mid-17th century. The style was most prominently used in the construction of cathedrals and churches. Gothic architecture's defining features are pointed ar ...
" #c.1290–c.1350 from:1230 till:1530 text:" Early Muscovite Period" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #c.1230-c.1530 #at:1190 text:"
Early English Period English Gothic is an architectural style that flourished from the late 12th until the mid-17th century. The style was most prominently used in the construction of cathedrals and churches. Gothic architecture's defining features are pointed ar ...
" #1190–1250 from:1190 till: 1546 text:"
Gothic Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1200(sic)—1400 from:1126 till:1599 text:"
Mudéjar Mudéjar ( , also , , ca, mudèjar , ; from ar, مدجن, mudajjan, subjugated; tamed; domesticated) refers to the group of Muslims who remained in Iberia in the late medieval period despite the Christian reconquest. It is also a term for M ...
" shift:(5,-2) color: gris anchor:from #1120–1599 from:1074 till:1250 text:" Norman" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1074–1250 from:1050 till:1170 text:" Romanesque" shift:(5,-2) color: gris anchor:from #1050–1170 from:1000 till:1250 text:" Medieval Rus'" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #c.1000-c.1250 from:1000 till:1300 text:"
Hoysala The Hoysala Empire was a Kannadiga power originating from the Indian subcontinent that ruled most of what is now Karnataka between the 10th and the 14th centuries. The capital of the Hoysalas was initially located at Belur, but was later moved ...
" shift:(5,-2) color: gris anchor:from #c.1000-c.1300


1750–1900

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Julian calendar The Julian calendar, proposed by Roman consul Julius Caesar in 46 BC, was a reform of the Roman calendar. It took effect on , by edict. It was designed with the aid of Greek mathematicians and astronomers such as Sosigenes of Alexandri ...
" color:rougeclair from:start till:end text: " Timeline of architectural styles from 1750–1900" color:rouge anchor:from shift:(155,-6) fontsize:large barset:evennement color:rouge shift:(2,0) width:15.5 at:1900 #blank line # at:2003 text:"
Blobitecture Blobitecture (from blob architecture), blobism and blobismus are terms for a movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped, building form. Though the term ''blob architecture'' was in vogue already in the mid-1990s, t ...
" # at:1982 text:"
Deconstructivism Deconstructivism is a movement of postmodern architecture which appeared in the 1980s. It gives the impression of the fragmentation of the constructed building, commonly characterised by an absence of obvious harmony, continuity, or symmetry. ...
" #1982–present # at:1981 text:" Memphis Group" #1981–1988 # at:1971 text:" High-tech (Late modernism) #1971–present # at:1959 text:" Metabolist Movement" #1959 Japan # at:1952 text:"
Critical regionalism Critical regionalism is an approach to architecture that strives to counter the placelessness and lack of identity of the International Style, but also rejects the whimsical individualism and ornamentation of Postmodern architecture. The stylings ...
" #1952 global # from:1950 till:2007 text:"
Postmodernism Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourseNuyen, A.T., 1992. The Role of Rhetorical Devices in Postmodernist Discourse. Philosophy & Rhetoric, pp.183–194. characterized by skepticism toward the " grand narratives" of modern ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from # at:1950 text:"
Brutalism Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era. Brutalist buildings are characterised by minimalist constructions that showcase the b ...
" #1950s–1970s # at:1950 text:"
Googie Googie architecture ( ) is a type of futurist architecture influenced by car culture, jets, the Atomic Age and the Space Age. It originated in Southern California from the Streamline Moderne architecture of the 1930s, and was popular in the ...
" #1950s America # at:1950 text:" Mid-century modern" #1950s California, etc. # at:1936 text:"
Usonian Usonia () is a word that was used by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright to refer to the United States in general (in preference to ''America''), and more specifically to his vision for the landscape of the country, including the planning of ...
" #1936–1940s USA # at:1936 text:" Nazi architecture" #1936–1945 Germany # at:1933 text:"
Stalinist Stalinism is the means of governing and Marxist-Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1953 by Joseph Stalin. It included the creation of a one-party totalitarian police state, rapid industrialization, the theory ...
" #1933–1955 # at:1930 text:"
Streamline Moderne Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In industrial desig ...
" #1930–1937 # from:1927 till:1976 text:" International style" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1927–1970s # at:1925 text:"
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unit ...
" #1925–1940s # at:1925 text:"
Fascist architecture Fascist architecture encompasses various stylistic trends in architecture developed by architects of fascist states, primarily in the early 20th century. Fascist architectural styles gained popularity in the late 1920s with the rise of modernism a ...
" #1925–1936 Italy # at:1922 text:"
Egyptian Revival Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt. It is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient Egyptian monuments generated by Napoleon's conquest of Egypt and Admiral Nelson's defeat ...
" #1922→
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unit ...
# at:1920 text:"
Mediterranean Revival Mediterranean Revival is an architectural style introduced in the United States, Canada, and certain other countries in the 19th century. It incorporated references from Spanish Renaissance, Spanish Colonial, Italian Renaissance, French Colonia ...
" #1920s–1930s America # from:1919 till:1938 text:"
Bauhaus The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 20 ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1919–1930s # at:1915 text:" Spanish Colonial Revival" #1915 and 1931 # at:1914 text:" Constructivism" #1914–1920 # from:1914 till:1963 text:"
Modernism Modernism is both a philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, an ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1914–1960 # at:1912 text:" Amsterdam School" #1912–1924 # at:1910 text:"
Expressionism Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it ra ...
" #1910–ca. 1924 # from:1910 till:1930 text:" Nordic Classicism" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from # at:1909 text:"
Futurism Futurism ( it, Futurismo, link=no) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects suc ...
" #1909 Europe # at:1905 text:" Heliopolis style" #1905 Egypt # at:1902 text:"
National Romantic style The National Romantic style was a Nordic architectural style that was part of the National Romantic movement during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is often considered to be a form of Art Nouveau. The National Romantic style spread ...
" #1902 Scandinavia # at:1901 text:" Edwardian Baroque" #1901 United Kingdom at:1900 text:"
Prairie Style Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped ...
" #1900 and 1917 USA at:1898 text:"
Garden city movement The garden city movement was a 20th century urban planning movement promoting satellite communities surrounding the central city and separated with greenbelts. These Garden Cities would contain proportionate areas of residences, industry, and ...
" #1898–1968 United Kingdom at:1898 text:"
Pueblo In the Southwestern United States, Pueblo (capitalized) refers to the Native tribes of Puebloans having fixed-location communities with permanent buildings which also are called pueblos (lowercased). The Spanish explorers of northern New Spain ...
style #1898-1990s USA at:1894 text:" Mission revival style" #1894–1936 at:1890 text:"
Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archit ...
" #1890s–today at:1890 text:"
City Beautiful movement The City Beautiful Movement was a reform philosophy of North American architecture and urban planning that flourished during the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of introducing beautification and monumental grandeur in cities. It was a part of the ...
" #1890–1900s USA from:1890 till:end text:"
American Craftsman American Craftsman is an American domestic architectural style, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, which included interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts, beginning in the last years of the 19th century. Its ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from # from:1890 till:1938 1890s–1930 New England at:1888 text:"
Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...
" #1895(sic)-1926 at:1888 text:" Jungenstil" #1888 to 1911 German
Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...
at:1888 text:"
Modernisme ''Modernisme'' (, Catalan for "modernism"), also known as Catalan modernism and Catalan art nouveau, is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the search of a new entitlement of Catalan cultur ...
" #1888 to 1911 Catalonian
Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...
from:1880 till:1914 text:" American Renaissance" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #ca 1880 – 1914 at:1880 text:" Chicago school" #1880s and 1890s at:1880 text:"
Richardsonian Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revival style incorporates 11th and 12th century southern French, Spanish, and Italian Romanes ...
" #1880s from:1879 till:1905 text:" Shingle Style" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #or stick style 1879–1905 New England at:1872 text:"
National Park Service Rustic National Park Service rustic – sometimes colloquially called Parkitecture – is a style of architecture that developed in the early and middle 20th century in the United States National Park Service (NPS) through its efforts to create building ...
" shift:(5,-2) #1872–1916 USA from:1870 till:1914 text:" Queen Anne Style" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1870–1910s UK & USA at:1865 text:" Second Empire" #1865 and 1880 at:1863 text:" Beaux-Arts" at:1860 text:" Arts and Crafts movement" from:1850 till:1900 text:"
Swiss chalet style Swiss chalet style (german: Schweizerstil, no, Sveitserstil) is an architectural style of Late Historicism, originally inspired by rural chalets in Switzerland and the Alpine (mountainous) regions of Central Europe. The style refers to traditi ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #c.1850 and c.1900 switzerland, norway, US at:1848 text:" Neo-Grec" #1848 – 1865 at:1842 text:"
Greek revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but a ...
" at:1840 text:"
Egyptian revival Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt. It is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient Egyptian monuments generated by Napoleon's conquest of Egypt and Admiral Nelson's defeat ...
" #1840s–1850s at:1840 text:" Queenslander" #1840s–1960s Australia from:1840 till:1900 text:"
Romanesque revival Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1840–1900 USA at:1838 text:"
Jacobethan The Jacobethan or Jacobean Revival architectural style is the mixed national Renaissance revival style that was made popular in England from the late 1820s, which derived most of its inspiration and its repertory from the English Renaissance ( ...
" shift:(5,-2) #1838 from:1837 till:1901 text:" Victorian" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from at:1835 text:"
Tudorbethan Tudor Revival architecture (also known as mock Tudor in the UK) first manifested itself in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century. Based on revival of aspects that were perceived as Tudor architecture ...
" shift:(5,-2 #1835–1885 at:1815 text:"
Biedermeier The ''Biedermeier'' period was an era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle class grew in number and the arts appealed to common sensibilities. It began with the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in ...
" #1815–1848 at:1812 text:"
Moorish Revival Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of Romanticist Orientalism. It reached the height of its popularity after the mid-19th centu ...
#1812-c.1920 Europe and USA at:1810 text:" American Empire (style)" at:1810 text:"
Regency architecture Regency architecture encompasses classical buildings built in the United Kingdom during the Regency era in the early 19th century when George IV was Prince Regent, and also to earlier and later buildings following the same style. The period co ...
" at:1809 text:"
Egyptian revival Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt. It is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient Egyptian monuments generated by Napoleon's conquest of Egypt and Admiral Nelson's defeat ...
" #1809–1820s at:1804 text:"
Empire (style) The Empire style (, ''style Empire'') is an early-nineteenth-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts, representing the second phase of Neoclassicism. It flourished between 1800 and 1815 durin ...
" #1804 to 1814, 1870 revival at:1802 text:"
Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...
" from:1780 till:1830 text:"
Federal architecture Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States between 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was heavily based on the works of Andrea Palladio with several inn ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:1773 till:1850 text:" Pombaline style" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #Portugal at:1770 text:" Adam style" #1770 United Kingdom at:1760 text:"
Gothic revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
" #1760s–1840s from:1750 till:1921 text:" Neoclassical" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1760- # at:1720 text:" Georgian" #1720— # at:1693 text:"
Sicilian Baroque Sicilian Baroque is the distinctive form of Baroque architecture which evolved on the island of Sicily, off the southern coast of Italy, in the , when it was part of the Spanish Empire. The style is recognisable not only by its typical Baroque c ...
" #1693 earthquake—c.1745 aka # at:1666 text:"
English Baroque English Baroque is a term used to refer to modes of English architecture that paralleled Baroque architecture in continental Europe between the Great Fire of London (1666) and roughly 1720, when the flamboyant and dramatic qualities of Baroque ...
" #Great Fire (1666) & Treaty of Utrecht (1713) # at:1650 text:"
Rococo Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...
" #1659— # at:1616 text:"
Palladianism Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). What is today recognised as Palladian architecture evolved from his concepts of symmetry, perspective and ...
" #1616–1680 (I.Jones) # at:1600 text:"
Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including ...
" #1600— # at:1533 text:"
Elizabethan The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history. The symbol of Britannia (a female personific ...
" #(b.1533—d.1603) # at:1527 text:"
Mannerism Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Ital ...
" #1527–1600 # at:1520 text:" Spanish Colonial style" #1520s–c.1550* Manueline 1495 to 1521 (reign) # at:1485 text:" Tudor" #1485–1603 # at:1400 text:"
Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ide ...
" #1400–1600 # at:1350 text:"
Brick Gothic Brick Gothic (german: Backsteingotik, pl, Gotyk ceglany, nl, Baksteengotiek) is a specific style of Gothic architecture common in Northeast and Central Europe especially in the regions in and around the Baltic Sea, which do not have resourc ...
" #c.1350–c.1400 # at:1350 text:"
Perpendicular Period Perpendicular Gothic (also Perpendicular, Rectilinear, or Third Pointed) architecture was the third and final style of English Gothic architecture developed in the Kingdom of England during the Late Middle Ages, typified by large windows, four-ce ...
" #c.1350–c.1550 # at:1290 text:"
Decorated Period English Gothic is an architectural style that flourished from the late 12th until the mid-17th century. The style was most prominently used in the construction of cathedrals and churches. Gothic architecture's defining features are pointed ar ...
" #c.1290–c.1350 # at:1190 text:"
Early English Period English Gothic is an architectural style that flourished from the late 12th until the mid-17th century. The style was most prominently used in the construction of cathedrals and churches. Gothic architecture's defining features are pointed ar ...
" #1190–1250 # at:1190 text:"
Gothic architecture Gothic architecture (or pointed architecture) is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. It ...
" #1200(sic)—1400 #* Neolithic architecture 10,000 BC-3000 BC #*
Ancient Egyptian architecture Spanning over three thousand years, ancient Egypt was not one stable civilization but in constant change and upheaval, commonly split into periods by historians. Likewise, ancient Egyptian architecture is not one style, but a set of styles diff ...
3000 BC–373 AD #*
Sumerian architecture The architecture of Mesopotamia is ancient architecture of the region of the Tigris– Euphrates river system (also known as Mesopotamia), encompassing several distinct cultures and spanning a period from the 10th millennium BC (when the first pe ...
5300 BC–2000 BC #*
Classical architecture Classical architecture usually denotes architecture which is more or less consciously derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or sometimes even more specifically, from the works of the Roman architect ...
600 BC-323 AD #**
Ancient Greek architecture Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greek-speaking people (''Hellenic'' people) whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC unti ...
776 BC-265 BC #**
Roman architecture Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style. The two styles are often considered on ...
753 BC–663 AD #*
Byzantine architecture Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire. The Byzantine era is usually dated from 330 AD, when Constantine the Great moved the Roman capital to Byzantium, which became Constantinople, until t ...
527 (Sofia)-1520 #*
Romanesque architecture Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe characterized by semi-circular arches. There is no consensus for the beginning date of the Romanesque style, with proposals ranging from the 6th to the 11th century, this lat ...
1050–1170 #*
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. In particular the term is traditionally used f ...
1074–1250 #To start the indentation on top again #barset:break #at:1919 #blank line


1900–present

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Julian calendar The Julian calendar, proposed by Roman consul Julius Caesar in 46 BC, was a reform of the Roman calendar. It took effect on , by edict. It was designed with the aid of Greek mathematicians and astronomers such as Sosigenes of Alexandri ...
" color:rougeclair from:start till:end color:bleuclair text:"Timeline of architectural styles from 1900 to the present" fontsize:large anchor:from shift:(140,-6) barset:evennement color:rouge shift:(2,0) width:15.5 at:2010 #blank line from:2006 till:2020 text:"
New Classical New classical macroeconomics, sometimes simply called new classical economics, is a school of thought in macroeconomics that builds its analysis entirely on a neoclassical framework. Specifically, it emphasizes the importance of rigorous foundat ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:2005 till:2020 text:"
Sustainable Specific definitions of sustainability are difficult to agree on and have varied in the literature and over time. The concept of sustainability can be used to guide decisions at the global, national, and individual levels (e.g. sustainable livi ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:2004 till:2020 text:" Neomodern" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:2003 till:2020 text:"
Blobitecture Blobitecture (from blob architecture), blobism and blobismus are terms for a movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped, building form. Though the term ''blob architecture'' was in vogue already in the mid-1990s, t ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:2000 till:2020 text:"
Contemporary Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. Contemporary history is either a subset of the late modern period, or it is o ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #2000–present Global from:1998 till:2020 text:" Parametricism" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1998–Present from:1998 till:2020 text:"
Deconstructivism Deconstructivism is a movement of postmodern architecture which appeared in the 1980s. It gives the impression of the fragmentation of the constructed building, commonly characterised by an absence of obvious harmony, continuity, or symmetry. ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1982–2008 from:1984 till:2020 text:"
Neo-futurism Neo-futurism is a late-20th to early-21st-century movement in the arts, design, and architecture. Described as an avant-garde movement, as well as a futuristic rethinking of the thought behind aesthetics and functionality of design in growing ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1998–Present from:1981 till:1989 text:" Memphis Group" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1981–1988 from:1970 till:1981 text:"
Arcology Arcology, a portmanteau of "architecture" and "ecology",. is a field of creating architectural design principles for very densely populated and ecologically low-impact human habitats. The term was coined in 1969 by architect Paolo Soleri, who be ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1970–1980s from:1961 till:2013 text:" High-tech (Structural Expressionism/Late modernism)" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1961–2013 from:1960 till:1989 text:" Shed style" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1960s–1980s from:1960 till:2007 text:"
Postmodernism Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourseNuyen, A.T., 1992. The Role of Rhetorical Devices in Postmodernist Discourse. Philosophy & Rhetoric, pp.183–194. characterized by skepticism toward the " grand narratives" of modern ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1960-2000s International from:1959 till:1969 text:" Metabolist Movement" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1959 Japan from:1952 till:1962 text:"
Critical regionalism Critical regionalism is an approach to architecture that strives to counter the placelessness and lack of identity of the International Style, but also rejects the whimsical individualism and ornamentation of Postmodern architecture. The stylings ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1952 global from:1950 till:1979 text:"
Brutalism Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era. Brutalist buildings are characterised by minimalist constructions that showcase the b ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1950s–1970s from:1950 till:1959 text:"
Googie Googie architecture ( ) is a type of futurist architecture influenced by car culture, jets, the Atomic Age and the Space Age. It originated in Southern California from the Streamline Moderne architecture of the 1930s, and was popular in the ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1950s America from:1945 till:1969 text:" Mid-century modern" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1950s and 1960s California and neighbouring areas. from:1936 till:1949 text:"
Usonian Usonia () is a word that was used by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright to refer to the United States in general (in preference to ''America''), and more specifically to his vision for the landscape of the country, including the planning of ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1936–1940s USA from:1936 till:1945 text:" Nazi architecture" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1936–1945 Germany from:1933 till:1955 text:"
Stalinist Stalinism is the means of governing and Marxist-Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1953 by Joseph Stalin. It included the creation of a one-party totalitarian police state, rapid industrialization, the theory ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1933–1955 from:1930 till:1937 text:"
Streamline Moderne Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In industrial desig ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1930–1937 from:1927 till:1979 text:" International style" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1927–1970s from:1925 till:1949 text:"
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unit ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1925–1940s from:1925 till:1945 text:"
Fascist architecture Fascist architecture encompasses various stylistic trends in architecture developed by architects of fascist states, primarily in the early 20th century. Fascist architectural styles gained popularity in the late 1920s with the rise of modernism a ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1925–1945 Italy from:1922 till:1927 text:"
Egyptian Revival Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt. It is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient Egyptian monuments generated by Napoleon's conquest of Egypt and Admiral Nelson's defeat ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1922→1927 from:1920 till:1939 text:"
Mediterranean Revival Mediterranean Revival is an architectural style introduced in the United States, Canada, and certain other countries in the 19th century. It incorporated references from Spanish Renaissance, Spanish Colonial, Italian Renaissance, French Colonia ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1920s–1930s America from:1919 till:1938 text:"
Bauhaus The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 20 ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1919–1930s from:1919 till:1932 text:" Constructivism" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:1915 till:1931 text:" Spanish Colonial Revival" color:gris anchor:from #1915 - 1931 from:1914 till:1963 text:"
Modernism Modernism is both a philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, an ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1914–1960 from:1912 till:1924 text:" Amsterdam School" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1912–1924 from:1910 till:1924 text:"
Expressionism Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it ra ...
" color:gris anchor:from #1910–ca. 1924 from:1910 till:1930 text:" Nordic Classicism" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:1909 till:1934 text:"
Futurism Futurism ( it, Futurismo, link=no) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects suc ...
" color:gris anchor:from #1909-1934 Europe from:1905 till:1910 text:" Heliopolis style" color:gris anchor:from #1905-1910 Egypt from:1902 till:1916 text:"
National Romantic style The National Romantic style was a Nordic architectural style that was part of the National Romantic movement during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is often considered to be a form of Art Nouveau. The National Romantic style spread ...
" color:gris anchor:from #1902-1916 Scandinavia from:1901 till: 1910 text:" Edwardian Baroque" color:gris anchor:from #1901-1910 United Kingdom from:1900 till:1917 text:"
Prairie Style Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped ...
" color:gris anchor:from #1900–1917 USA at:1900 #blank line # at:1898 text:"
Garden city movement The garden city movement was a 20th century urban planning movement promoting satellite communities surrounding the central city and separated with greenbelts. These Garden Cities would contain proportionate areas of residences, industry, and ...
" #1898–1968 United Kingdom # at:1898 text:"
Pueblo In the Southwestern United States, Pueblo (capitalized) refers to the Native tribes of Puebloans having fixed-location communities with permanent buildings which also are called pueblos (lowercased). The Spanish explorers of northern New Spain ...
style #1898-1990s USA # at:1894 text:" Mission revival style" #1894–1936 # at:1890 text:"
Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archit ...
" #1890s–today # at:1890 text:"
City Beautiful movement The City Beautiful Movement was a reform philosophy of North American architecture and urban planning that flourished during the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of introducing beautification and monumental grandeur in cities. It was a part of the ...
" #1890–1900s USA # from:1890 till:1938 text:"
American Craftsman American Craftsman is an American domestic architectural style, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, which included interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts, beginning in the last years of the 19th century. Its ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1890s–1930 New England # at:1888 text:"
Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...
" #1895(sic)-1926 # at:1888 text:" Jungenstil" #1888 to 1911 German
Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...
# at:1888 text:"
Modernisme ''Modernisme'' (, Catalan for "modernism"), also known as Catalan modernism and Catalan art nouveau, is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the search of a new entitlement of Catalan cultur ...
" #1888 to 1911 Catalonian
Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...
# from:1880 till:1914 text:" American Renaissance" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #ca 1880 – 1914 # at:1880 text:" Chicago school" #1880s and 1890s # at:1880 text:"
Richardsonian Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revival style incorporates 11th and 12th century southern French, Spanish, and Italian Romanes ...
" #1880s # from:1879 till:1905 text:" Shingle Style" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #or stick style 1879–1905 New England # at:1872 text:"
National Park Service Rustic National Park Service rustic – sometimes colloquially called Parkitecture – is a style of architecture that developed in the early and middle 20th century in the United States National Park Service (NPS) through its efforts to create building ...
" shift:(5,-2) #1872–1916 USA # from:1870 till:1914 text:" Queen Anne Style" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1870–1910s UK & USA # at:1865 text:" Second Empire" #1865 and 1880 # at:1863 text:" Beaux-Arts" # at:1860 text:" Arts and Crafts movement" # from:1850 till:1900 text:"
Swiss chalet style Swiss chalet style (german: Schweizerstil, no, Sveitserstil) is an architectural style of Late Historicism, originally inspired by rural chalets in Switzerland and the Alpine (mountainous) regions of Central Europe. The style refers to traditi ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #c.1850 and c.1900 switzerland, norway, US # at:1848 text:" Neo-Grec" #1848 – 1865 # at:1842 text:"
Greek revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but a ...
" # at:1840 text:"
Egyptian revival Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt. It is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient Egyptian monuments generated by Napoleon's conquest of Egypt and Admiral Nelson's defeat ...
" #1840s–1850s # at:1840 text:" Queenslander" #1840s–1960s Australia # from:1840 till:1900 text:"
Romanesque revival Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1840–1900 USA # at:1838 text:"
Jacobethan The Jacobethan or Jacobean Revival architectural style is the mixed national Renaissance revival style that was made popular in England from the late 1820s, which derived most of its inspiration and its repertory from the English Renaissance ( ...
" shift:(5,-2) #1838 # from:1837 till:1901 text:" Victorian" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from # at:1835 text:"
Tudorbethan Tudor Revival architecture (also known as mock Tudor in the UK) first manifested itself in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century. Based on revival of aspects that were perceived as Tudor architecture ...
" shift:(5,-2 #1835–1885 # at:1815 text:"
Biedermeier The ''Biedermeier'' period was an era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle class grew in number and the arts appealed to common sensibilities. It began with the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in ...
" #1815–1848 # at:1812 text:"
Moorish Revival Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of Romanticist Orientalism. It reached the height of its popularity after the mid-19th centu ...
#1812-c.1920 Europe and USA # at:1810 text:" American Empire (style)" # at:1810 text:"
Regency architecture Regency architecture encompasses classical buildings built in the United Kingdom during the Regency era in the early 19th century when George IV was Prince Regent, and also to earlier and later buildings following the same style. The period co ...
" # at:1809 text:"
Egyptian revival Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt. It is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient Egyptian monuments generated by Napoleon's conquest of Egypt and Admiral Nelson's defeat ...
" #1809–1820s # at:1804 text:"
Empire (style) The Empire style (, ''style Empire'') is an early-nineteenth-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts, representing the second phase of Neoclassicism. It flourished between 1800 and 1815 durin ...
" #1804 to 1814, 1870 revival # at:1802 text:"
Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...
" # from:1780 till:1830 text:"
Federal architecture Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States between 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was heavily based on the works of Andrea Palladio with several inn ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from # from:1773 till:1850 text:" Pombaline style" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #Portugal # at:1770 text:" Adam style" #1770 United Kingdom # at:1760 text:"
Gothic revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
" #1760s–1840s # from:1750 till:1921 text:" Neoclassical" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1760- # at:1720 text:" Georgian" #1720— # at:1693 text:"
Sicilian Baroque Sicilian Baroque is the distinctive form of Baroque architecture which evolved on the island of Sicily, off the southern coast of Italy, in the , when it was part of the Spanish Empire. The style is recognisable not only by its typical Baroque c ...
" #1693 earthquake—c.1745 aka # at:1666 text:"
English Baroque English Baroque is a term used to refer to modes of English architecture that paralleled Baroque architecture in continental Europe between the Great Fire of London (1666) and roughly 1720, when the flamboyant and dramatic qualities of Baroque ...
" #Great Fire (1666) & Treaty of Utrecht (1713) # at:1650 text:"
Rococo Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...
" #1659— # at:1616 text:"
Palladianism Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). What is today recognised as Palladian architecture evolved from his concepts of symmetry, perspective and ...
" #1616–1680 (I.Jones) # at:1600 text:"
Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including ...
" #1600— # at:1533 text:"
Elizabethan The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history. The symbol of Britannia (a female personific ...
" #(b.1533—d.1603) # at:1527 text:"
Mannerism Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Ital ...
" #1527–1600 # at:1520 text:" Spanish Colonial style" #1520s–c.1550* Manueline 1495 to 1521 (reign) # at:1485 text:" Tudor" #1485–1603 # at:1400 text:"
Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ide ...
" #1400–1600 # at:1350 text:"
Brick Gothic Brick Gothic (german: Backsteingotik, pl, Gotyk ceglany, nl, Baksteengotiek) is a specific style of Gothic architecture common in Northeast and Central Europe especially in the regions in and around the Baltic Sea, which do not have resourc ...
" #c.1350–c.1400 # at:1350 text:"
Perpendicular Period Perpendicular Gothic (also Perpendicular, Rectilinear, or Third Pointed) architecture was the third and final style of English Gothic architecture developed in the Kingdom of England during the Late Middle Ages, typified by large windows, four-ce ...
" #c.1350–c.1550 # at:1290 text:"
Decorated Period English Gothic is an architectural style that flourished from the late 12th until the mid-17th century. The style was most prominently used in the construction of cathedrals and churches. Gothic architecture's defining features are pointed ar ...
" #c.1290–c.1350 # at:1190 text:"
Early English Period English Gothic is an architectural style that flourished from the late 12th until the mid-17th century. The style was most prominently used in the construction of cathedrals and churches. Gothic architecture's defining features are pointed ar ...
" #1190–1250 # at:1190 text:"
Gothic architecture Gothic architecture (or pointed architecture) is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. It ...
" #1200(sic)—1400 #* Neolithic architecture 10,000 BC-3000 BC #*
Ancient Egyptian architecture Spanning over three thousand years, ancient Egypt was not one stable civilization but in constant change and upheaval, commonly split into periods by historians. Likewise, ancient Egyptian architecture is not one style, but a set of styles diff ...
3000 BC–373 AD #*
Sumerian architecture The architecture of Mesopotamia is ancient architecture of the region of the Tigris– Euphrates river system (also known as Mesopotamia), encompassing several distinct cultures and spanning a period from the 10th millennium BC (when the first pe ...
5300 BC–2000 BC #*
Classical architecture Classical architecture usually denotes architecture which is more or less consciously derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or sometimes even more specifically, from the works of the Roman architect ...
600 BC-323 AD #**
Ancient Greek architecture Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greek-speaking people (''Hellenic'' people) whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC unti ...
776 BC-265 BC #**
Roman architecture Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style. The two styles are often considered on ...
753 BC–663 AD #*
Byzantine architecture Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire. The Byzantine era is usually dated from 330 AD, when Constantine the Great moved the Roman capital to Byzantium, which became Constantinople, until t ...
527 (Sofia)-1520 #*
Romanesque architecture Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe characterized by semi-circular arches. There is no consensus for the beginning date of the Romanesque style, with proposals ranging from the 6th to the 11th century, this lat ...
1050–1170 #*
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. In particular the term is traditionally used f ...
1074–1250 #To start the indentation on top again #barset:break #at:1919 #blank line
contemporary architecture shouldn't be regarded as a style merely being a term to encompass architectural styles of our period


See also

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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. One significant architect ...
* List of architectural styles


References


Voorthuis – Timelines


External links


Rndrd
– a website documenting unbuilt architectural designs representative of the 20th century {{DEFAULTSORT:Timeline Of Architectural Styles 1750-1900 +02 Architectural Styles 1750-1900
Architectural styles An architectural style is a set of characteristics and features that make a building or other structure notable or historically identifiable. It is a sub-class of style in the visual arts generally, and most styles in architecture relate closely ...
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Architectural styles An architectural style is a set of characteristics and features that make a building or other structure notable or historically identifiable. It is a sub-class of style in the visual arts generally, and most styles in architecture relate closely ...