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architectural style An architectural style is a classification of buildings (and nonbuilding structures) based on a set of characteristics and features, including overall appearance, arrangement of the components, method of construction, building materials used, for ...

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 Charles Martel and his grandson Charlemagne, descendants of the Arnulfing and Pippinid c ...

" #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 54th parallel north, 54°N, or may be based on other ge ...

from:711 till:1492 text:"

Moorish The term Moor is an exonym used in European languages to designate the Muslim populations of North Africa (the Maghreb) and the Iberian Peninsula (particularly al-Andalus) during the Middle Ages. Moors are not a single, distinct or self-defi ...

" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #Spain, Portugal, North Africa from:330 till:1520 text:"

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived the events that caused the fall of the Western Roman E ...

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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 Roman civilization *Epistle to the Romans, shortened to Romans, a letter w ...

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Ancient Greek Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...

" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:-1920 till:-630 text:" Assyrian" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:-2000 till:1519 text:"

Mesoamerican Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America, thus comprising the lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala, El S ...

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Ancient Egyptian Ancient Egypt () was a cradle of civilization concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in Northeast Africa. It emerged from prehistoric Egypt around 3150BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology), when Upper and Lower E ...

" 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 or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...

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AD 1000present

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:1024 height:auto barincrement:20 PlotArea = left:20 right:20 bottom:20 top:10 Colors = id:noir value:black id:canvas value:rgb(0.97,0.97,0.97) id:gris value:gray(0.85) id:gris2 value:gray(0.70) id:grilleMajor value:rgb(0.80,0.80,0.80) id:bleuclair value:rgb(0.56,0.56,0.86) id:rouge value:red id:rougeclair value:rgb(0.86,0.56,0.56) id:bleuclair value:rgb(0.76,0.76,0.96) id:grilleMinor value:rgb(0.86,0.86,0.86) Period = from:1000 till:2020 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyy AlignBars = justify ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:10 start:1000 gridcolor:grilleMinor ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:100 start:1000 gridcolor:black BackgroundColors = canvas:canvas bars:canvas BarData= bar:epoque barset:evennement PlotData= barset:evennement color:rouge shift:(2,0) width:16 #at:2010 #blank line #at:2006 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 economics, neoclassical framework. Specifically, it emphasizes the import ...

" #at:2005 text:"

Sustainable Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long period of time. Definitions of this term are disputed and have varied with literature, context, and time. Sustainability usually has three dimensions (or pillars): env ...

" #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 already in vogue in the mid-1990s, th ...

" #at:1982 text:"

Deconstructivism Deconstructivism is a postmodern architecture, postmodern architectural movement which appeared in the 1980s. It gives the impression of the fragmentation of the constructed building, commonly characterised by an absence of obvious harmony, ...

" #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 High-tech architecture, also known as structural expressionism, is a type of Modern architecture#Late modernist architecture, late modernist architecture that emerged in the 1970s, incorporating elements of high tech industry and technology into ...

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Metabolist Movement was a post-war Japanese Biomimetic architecture, biomimetic architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural Megastructure (planning concept), megastructures with those of organic biological growth. It had its first international expo ...

" #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 encompasses a variety of artistic, Culture, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break from modernism. They have in common the conviction that it is no longer possible to rely upon previous ways of depicting ...

" 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" #1950s America #at:1950 text:"

Mid-century modern Mid-century modern (MCM) is a movement in interior design, product design, graphic design, architecture and urban development that was present in all the world, but more popular in North America, Brazil and Europe from roughly 1945 to 197 ...

" #1950s California, etc. #at:1936 text:" Usonian" #1936–1940s USA #at:1936 text:"

Nazi architecture Nazi architecture is the architecture promoted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Germany, Nazi regime from 1933 until its fall in 1945, connected with urban planning in Nazi Germany. It is characterized by three forms: a Stripped Classicism, stripp ...

" #1936–1945 Germany #at:1933 text:"

Stalinist Stalinism (, ) is the totalitarian means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by dictator Joseph Stalin and in Soviet satellite states between 1944 and 1953. Stalinism in ...

" #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 Aerodynamics, aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In indu ...

" #1930–1937 from:1927 till:1976 text:"

International style The International Style is a major architectural style and movement that began in western Europe in the 1920s and dominated modern architecture until the 1970s. It is defined by strict adherence to Functionalism (architecture), functional and Fo ...

" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1927–1970s #at:1925 text:"

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...

" #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 ri ...

" #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 French campaign in Egypt and Syria, invasion of ...

" #1922→

#at:1920 text:" Mediterranean Revival" #1920s–1930s America from:1919 till:1938 text:"

Bauhaus The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the , was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined Decorative arts, crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., ...

" 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 was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

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Amsterdam School The Amsterdam School (Dutch: ''Amsterdamse School'') is a style of architecture that arose from 1910 through about 1930 in the Netherlands. The Amsterdam School movement is part of international Expressionist architecture, sometimes linked ...

" #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 rad ...

" #1910–ca. 1924 #from:1910 till:1930 text:"

Nordic Classicism Nordic Classicism was a Architectural style, style of architecture that briefly blossomed in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland) between 1910 and 1930. The style was also known as Swedish Grace architecture in Sweden. Until ...

" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #at:1909 text:"

Futurism Futurism ( ) was an Art movement, 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 such as the ...

" #1909 Europe #at:1905 text:"

Heliopolis style Heliopolis style is an early 20th-century architectural style developed in the new suburb of Heliopolis (Cairo Suburb), Heliopolis in eastern Cairo, Egypt. The Belgian Cairo Electric Railways and Heliopolis Oases Company, responsible for planning ...

" #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" #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 Green belt, greenbelts. These Garden Cities would contain proportionate areas of residences, i ...

" #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 arch ...

" #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 th ...

" #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. ...

" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1890s–1930 New England #at:1888 text:"

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...

" #1895(sic)-1926 #at:1888 text:"

Jugendstil (; "Youth Style") was an artistic movement, particularly in the decorative arts, that was influential primarily in Germany, Austria and elsewhere in Europe to a lesser extent from about 1895 until about 1910. It was the German and Austrian cou ...

" #1888 to 1911 German

#at:1888 text:" Modernisme" #1888 to 1911 Catalonian

#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 architectural style, style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revivalism (architecture), revival style incorporates 11th- and 12th-century ...

" #1880s #from:1879 till:1905 text:" Shingle Style" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #or

stick style The Stick style was a late-19th-century American architectural style, transitional between the Carpenter Gothic style of the mid-19th century, and the Queen Anne style that it had evolved into by the 1890s. It is named after its use of linear " ...

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 The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America. Initiat ...

" #from:1850 till:1900 text:" Swiss chalet style" 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 Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...

" #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 French campaign in Egypt and Syria, invasion of ...

" #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 t ...

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Jacobethan The Jacobethan ( ) architectural style, also known as Jacobean Revival, 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 Engli ...

" shift:(5,-2) #1838 from:1837 till:1901 text:" Victorian" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #at:1835 text:" Tudorbethan" shift:(5,-2 #1835–1885 from:1825 till:1917 text:"

Russian Revival The Russian Revival style comprises a number of different movements within Russian architecture that arose in the second quarter of the 19th century and was an eclectic melding of Byzantine elements ( Neo-Byzantine architecture in the Russian E ...

" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #at:1815 text:" Biedermeier" #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 Romanticism, Romanticist Orientalism. It reached the height of its popularity after the mi ...

#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 c ...

" #at:1809 text:"

" #1809–1820s #at:1804 text:" Empire (style)" #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 combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...

" from:1780 till:1830 text:"

Federal architecture Federal-style architecture is the name for the classical architecture built in the United States following the American Revolution between 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was influenced heavily by the works of And ...

" 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 The Adam style (also called Adamesque or the Style of the Brothers Adam) is an 18th-century neoclassical style of interior design and architecture, as practised by Scottish architect William Adam and his sons, of whom Robert (1728–1792) and ...

" #1770 United Kingdom from:1760 till:1880 text:"

Gothic revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an Architectural style, architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half ...

" 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, less commonly Roccoco ( , ; or ), also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpte ...

" #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" 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 Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

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Herrerian The Herrerian style ( or ''arquitectura herreriana'') of architecture was developed in Spain during the last third of the 16th century under the reign of Philip II of Spain, Philip II (1556–1598), and continued in force in the 17th century ...

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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 Roman symbol of Britannia (a female per ...

" #(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 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 Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it ...

" 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 In art history, the High Renaissance was a short period of the most exceptional artistic production in the Italian states, particularly Rome, capital of the Papal States, and in Florence, during the Italian Renaissance. Most art historians stat ...

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Manueline The Manueline (, ), occasionally known as Portuguese late Gothic, is the sumptuous, composite Portuguese architectural style originating in the 16th century, during the Portuguese Renaissance and Age of Discoveries. Manueline architecture inco ...

" 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 ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...

" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1400–1600 from:1350 till:1550 text:" 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-c ...

" #c.1350–c.1550 #at:1350 text:"

Brick Gothic Brick Gothic (, , ) is a specific style of Gothic architecture common in Baltic region, Northeast and Central Europe especially in the regions in and around the Baltic Sea, which do not have resources of standing rock (though Glacial erratic, ...

" #c.1350–c.1400 from:1336 till:1535 text:"

Vijayanagara Vijayanagara () is a city located in Vijayanagara district of Karnataka state in India.Vijayanagara

" shift:(5,-2) color: gris anchor:from #1336–1535 #at:1290 text:" Decorated Period" #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 a ...
" #1190–1250 from:1190 till: 1546 text:" Gothic" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1200(sic)—1400 from:1126 till:1599 text:"
Mudéjar Mudéjar were Muslims who remained in Iberia in the late medieval period following the Christian reconquest. It is also a term for Mudéjar art, which was greatly influenced by Islamic art, but produced typically by Christian craftsmen for C ...
" 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 Kingdom was a kingdom originating from the Indian subcontinent that ruled most of what is now Karnataka, India, Karnataka, parts of Tamilnadu and South-Western Telangana between the 11th and the 14th centuries Common Era, CE. The c ...
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1750–1900
DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:1024 height:auto barincrement:18 PlotArea = left:20 right:20 bottom:20 top:10 Colors = id:noir value:black id:canvas value:rgb(0.97,0.97,0.97) id:gris value:gray(0.85) id:gris2 value:gray(0.70) id:grilleMajor value:rgb(0.80,0.80,0.80) id:bleuclair value:rgb(0.56,0.56,0.86) id:rouge value:red id:rougeclair value:rgb(0.86,0.56,0.56) id:bleuclair value:rgb(0.76,0.76,0.96) id:grilleMinor value:rgb(0.86,0.86,0.86) Period = from:1750 till:1925 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyy AlignBars = justify ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:5 start:1750 gridcolor:grilleMinor ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:25 start:1750 gridcolor:grilleMajor BackgroundColors = canvas:canvas bars:canvas BarData= bar:epoque barset:evennement PlotData= bar:epoque shift:(0,0) width:30 from:start till:end color:gris # Arri?re plan # from:start till:1581 text:"
Julian calendar The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception). The Julian calendar is still used as a religious calendar in parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church and in parts ...
" 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 already in vogue in the mid-1990s, th ...
" # at:1982 text:"
Deconstructivism Deconstructivism is a postmodern architecture, postmodern architectural movement which appeared in the 1980s. It gives the impression of the fragmentation of the constructed building, commonly characterised by an absence of obvious harmony, ...
" #1982–present # at:1981 text:" Memphis Group" #1981–1988 # at:1971 text:" High-tech (Late modernism) #1971–present # at:1959 text:"
Metabolist Movement was a post-war Japanese Biomimetic architecture, biomimetic architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural Megastructure (planning concept), megastructures with those of organic biological growth. It had its first international expo ...
" #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 encompasses a variety of artistic, Culture, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break from modernism. They have in common the conviction that it is no longer possible to rely upon previous ways of depicting ...
" 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" #1950s America # at:1950 text:"
Mid-century modern Mid-century modern (MCM) is a movement in interior design, product design, graphic design, architecture and urban development that was present in all the world, but more popular in North America, Brazil and Europe from roughly 1945 to 197 ...
" #1950s California, etc. # at:1936 text:" Usonian" #1936–1940s USA # at:1936 text:"
Nazi architecture Nazi architecture is the architecture promoted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Germany, Nazi regime from 1933 until its fall in 1945, connected with urban planning in Nazi Germany. It is characterized by three forms: a Stripped Classicism, stripp ...
" #1936–1945 Germany # at:1933 text:"
Stalinist Stalinism (, ) is the totalitarian means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by dictator Joseph Stalin and in Soviet satellite states between 1944 and 1953. Stalinism in ...
" #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 Aerodynamics, aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In indu ...
" #1930–1937 # from:1927 till:1976 text:"
International style The International Style is a major architectural style and movement that began in western Europe in the 1920s and dominated modern architecture until the 1970s. It is defined by strict adherence to Functionalism (architecture), functional and Fo ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1927–1970s # at:1925 text:"
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...
" #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 ri ...
" #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 French campaign in Egypt and Syria, invasion of ...
" #1922→
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...
# at:1920 text:" Mediterranean Revival" #1920s–1930s America # from:1919 till:1938 text:"
Bauhaus The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the , was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined Decorative arts, crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., ...
" 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 was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1914–1960 # at:1912 text:"
Amsterdam School The Amsterdam School (Dutch: ''Amsterdamse School'') is a style of architecture that arose from 1910 through about 1930 in the Netherlands. The Amsterdam School movement is part of international Expressionist architecture, sometimes linked ...
" #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 rad ...
" #1910–ca. 1924 # from:1910 till:1930 text:"
Nordic Classicism Nordic Classicism was a Architectural style, style of architecture that briefly blossomed in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland) between 1910 and 1930. The style was also known as Swedish Grace architecture in Sweden. Until ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from # at:1909 text:"
Futurism Futurism ( ) was an Art movement, 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 such as the ...
" #1909 Europe # at:1905 text:"
Heliopolis style Heliopolis style is an early 20th-century architectural style developed in the new suburb of Heliopolis (Cairo Suburb), Heliopolis in eastern Cairo, Egypt. The Belgian Cairo Electric Railways and Heliopolis Oases Company, responsible for planning ...
" #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" #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 Green belt, greenbelts. These Garden Cities would contain proportionate areas of residences, i ...
" #1898–1968 United Kingdom at:1898 text:" Pueblo Revival #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 arch ...
" #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 th ...
" #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. ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from # from:1890 till:1938 1890s–1930 New England at:1888 text:"
Art Nouveau Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...
" #1895(sic)-1926 at:1888 text:"
Jugendstil (; "Youth Style") was an artistic movement, particularly in the decorative arts, that was influential primarily in Germany, Austria and elsewhere in Europe to a lesser extent from about 1895 until about 1910. It was the German and Austrian cou ...
" #1888 to 1911 German
Art Nouveau Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...
at:1888 text:" Modernisme" #1888 to 1911 Catalonian
Art Nouveau Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...
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 architectural style, style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revivalism (architecture), revival style incorporates 11th- and 12th-century ...
" #1880s from:1879 till:1905 text:" Shingle Style" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #or
stick style The Stick style was a late-19th-century American architectural style, transitional between the Carpenter Gothic style of the mid-19th century, and the Queen Anne style that it had evolved into by the 1890s. It is named after its use of linear " ...
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 The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America. Initiat ...
" from:1850 till:1900 text:" Swiss chalet style" 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 Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...
" 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 French campaign in Egypt and Syria, invasion of ...
" #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 t ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1840–1900 USA at:1838 text:"
Jacobethan The Jacobethan ( ) architectural style, also known as Jacobean Revival, 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 Engli ...
" shift:(5,-2) #1838 from:1837 till:1901 text:" Victorian" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from at:1835 text:" Tudorbethan" shift:(5,-2 #1835–1885 at:1815 text:" Biedermeier" #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 Romanticism, Romanticist Orientalism. It reached the height of its popularity after the mi ...
#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 c ...
" 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 French campaign in Egypt and Syria, invasion of ...
" #1809–1820s at:1804 text:" Empire (style)" #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 combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...
" from:1780 till:1830 text:"
Federal architecture Federal-style architecture is the name for the classical architecture built in the United States following the American Revolution between 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was influenced heavily by the works of And ...
" 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 The Adam style (also called Adamesque or the Style of the Brothers Adam) is an 18th-century neoclassical style of interior design and architecture, as practised by Scottish architect William Adam and his sons, of whom Robert (1728–1792) and ...
" #1770 United Kingdom at:1760 text:"
Gothic revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an Architectural style, architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half ...
" #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, less commonly Roccoco ( , ; or ), also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpte ...
" #1659— # at:1616 text:" Palladianism" #1616–1680 (I.Jones) # at:1600 text:"
Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...
" #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 Roman symbol of Britannia (a female per ...
" #(b.1533—d.1603) # at:1527 text:"
Mannerism Mannerism 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 Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it ...
" #1527–1600 # at:1520 text:" Spanish Colonial style" #1520s–c.1550*
Manueline The Manueline (, ), occasionally known as Portuguese late Gothic, is the sumptuous, composite Portuguese architectural style originating in the 16th century, during the Portuguese Renaissance and Age of Discoveries. Manueline architecture inco ...
1495 to 1521 (reign) # at:1485 text:" Tudor" #1485–1603 # at:1400 text:"
Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...
" #1400–1600 # at:1350 text:"
Brick Gothic Brick Gothic (, , ) is a specific style of Gothic architecture common in Baltic region, Northeast and Central Europe especially in the regions in and around the Baltic Sea, which do not have resources of standing rock (though Glacial erratic, ...
" #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-c ...
" #c.1350–c.1550 # at:1290 text:" Decorated Period" #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 a ...
" #1190–1250 # at:1190 text:"
Gothic architecture Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High Middle Ages, High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. It evolved f ...
" #1200(sic)—1400 #*
Neolithic architecture Neolithic architecture refers to structures encompassing housing and shelter from approximately 10,000 to 2,000 BC, the Neolithic period. In southwest Asia, Neolithic cultures appear soon after 10,000 BC, initially in the Levant ( Pre-Pottery N ...
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 History of ancient Egypt, split into periods by historians. Likewise, ancient Egyptian architecture is not one style, ...
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 typically refers to architecture consciously derived from the principles of Ancient Greek architecture, Greek and Ancient Roman architecture, Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or more specifically, from ''De archit ...
600 BC-323 AD #**
Ancient Greek architecture Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose Ancient Greece, culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Asia Minor, Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC ...
776 BC-265 BC #**
Roman architecture Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient 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 con ...
753 BC–663 AD #*
Byzantine architecture Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire, usually dated from 330 AD, when Constantine the Great established a new Roman capital in Byzantium, which became Constantinople, until the Fall of Cons ...
527 (Sofia)-1520 #*
Romanesque architecture Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries. The style eventually developed into the Gothic style with the shape of the arches providing a simple distinction: the Ro ...
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
DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:1024 height:auto barincrement:20 PlotArea = left:20 right:20 bottom:20 top:10 Colors = id:noir value:black id:canvas value:rgb(0.97,0.97,0.97) id:gris value:gray(0.85) id:gris2 value:gray(0.70) id:grilleMajor value:rgb(0.80,0.80,0.80) id:bleuclair value:rgb(0.56,0.56,0.86) id:rouge value:red id:rougeclair value:rgb(0.86,0.56,0.56) id:bleuclair value:rgb(0.76,0.76,0.96) id:grilleMinor value:rgb(0.86,0.86,0.86) Period = from:1900 till:2020 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyy AlignBars = justify ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:5 start:1900 gridcolor:grilleMinor ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:25 start:1900 gridcolor:grilleMajor BackgroundColors = canvas:canvas bars:canvas BarData= bar:epoque barset:evennement PlotData= bar:epoque shift:(0,0) width:30 from:start till:end color:gris # Arri?re plan # from:start till:1581 text:"
Julian calendar The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception). The Julian calendar is still used as a religious calendar in parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church and in parts ...
" 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 economics, neoclassical framework. Specifically, it emphasizes the import ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:2005 till:2020 text:"
Sustainable Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long period of time. Definitions of this term are disputed and have varied with literature, context, and time. Sustainability usually has three dimensions (or pillars): env ...
" 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 already in vogue in the mid-1990s, th ...
" 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 about 1945 to the present. In the social sciences, contemporary history is also continuous with, and related t ...
" 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 postmodern architecture, postmodern architectural movement which appeared in the 1980s. It gives the impression of the fragmentation of the constructed building, commonly characterised by an absence of obvious harmony, ...
" 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 Blend word, portmanteau of "architecture" and "ecology",. is a field of creating architectural design principles for very densely populated and Sustainable development, ecologically low-impact human habitats. The term was coined in ...
" 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 encompasses a variety of artistic, Culture, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break from modernism. They have in common the conviction that it is no longer possible to rely upon previous ways of depicting ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1960-2000s International from:1959 till:1969 text:"
Metabolist Movement was a post-war Japanese Biomimetic architecture, biomimetic architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural Megastructure (planning concept), megastructures with those of organic biological growth. It had its first international expo ...
" 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" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1950s America from:1945 till:1969 text:"
Mid-century modern Mid-century modern (MCM) is a movement in interior design, product design, graphic design, architecture and urban development that was present in all the world, but more popular in North America, Brazil and Europe from roughly 1945 to 197 ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1950s and 1960s California and neighbouring areas. from:1936 till:1949 text:" Usonian" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1936–1940s USA from:1936 till:1945 text:"
Nazi architecture Nazi architecture is the architecture promoted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Germany, Nazi regime from 1933 until its fall in 1945, connected with urban planning in Nazi Germany. It is characterized by three forms: a Stripped Classicism, stripp ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1936–1945 Germany from:1933 till:1955 text:"
Stalinist Stalinism (, ) is the totalitarian means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by dictator Joseph Stalin and in Soviet satellite states between 1944 and 1953. Stalinism in ...
" 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 Aerodynamics, aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In indu ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1930–1937 from:1927 till:1979 text:"
International style The International Style is a major architectural style and movement that began in western Europe in the 1920s and dominated modern architecture until the 1970s. It is defined by strict adherence to Functionalism (architecture), functional and Fo ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1927–1970s from:1925 till:1949 text:"
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...
" 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 ri ...
" 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 French campaign in Egypt and Syria, invasion of ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1922→1927 from:1920 till:1939 text:" Mediterranean Revival" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1920s–1930s America from:1919 till:1938 text:"
Bauhaus The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the , was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined Decorative arts, crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., ...
" 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 was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1914–1960 from:1912 till:1924 text:"
Amsterdam School The Amsterdam School (Dutch: ''Amsterdamse School'') is a style of architecture that arose from 1910 through about 1930 in the Netherlands. The Amsterdam School movement is part of international Expressionist architecture, sometimes linked ...
" 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 rad ...
" color:gris anchor:from #1910–ca. 1924 from:1910 till:1930 text:"
Nordic Classicism Nordic Classicism was a Architectural style, style of architecture that briefly blossomed in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland) between 1910 and 1930. The style was also known as Swedish Grace architecture in Sweden. Until ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from from:1909 till:1934 text:"
Futurism Futurism ( ) was an Art movement, 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 such as the ...
" color:gris anchor:from #1909-1934 Europe from:1905 till:1910 text:"
Heliopolis style Heliopolis style is an early 20th-century architectural style developed in the new suburb of Heliopolis (Cairo Suburb), Heliopolis in eastern Cairo, Egypt. The Belgian Cairo Electric Railways and Heliopolis Oases Company, responsible for planning ...
" 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" 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 Green belt, greenbelts. These Garden Cities would contain proportionate areas of residences, i ...
" #1898–1968 United Kingdom # at:1898 text:"
Pueblo Pueblo refers to the settlements of the Pueblo peoples, Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, currently in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. The permanent communities, including some of the oldest continually occupied settlement ...
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 arch ...
" #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 th ...
" #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. ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1890s–1930 New England # at:1888 text:"
Art Nouveau Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...
" #1895(sic)-1926 # at:1888 text:" Jungenstil" #1888 to 1911 German
Art Nouveau Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...
# at:1888 text:" Modernisme" #1888 to 1911 Catalonian
Art Nouveau Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...
# 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 architectural style, style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revivalism (architecture), revival style incorporates 11th- and 12th-century ...
" #1880s # from:1879 till:1905 text:" Shingle Style" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #or
stick style The Stick style was a late-19th-century American architectural style, transitional between the Carpenter Gothic style of the mid-19th century, and the Queen Anne style that it had evolved into by the 1890s. It is named after its use of linear " ...
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 The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America. Initiat ...
" # from:1850 till:1900 text:" Swiss chalet style" 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 Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...
" # 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 French campaign in Egypt and Syria, invasion of ...
" #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 t ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1840–1900 USA # at:1838 text:"
Jacobethan The Jacobethan ( ) architectural style, also known as Jacobean Revival, 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 Engli ...
" shift:(5,-2) #1838 # from:1837 till:1901 text:" Victorian" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from # at:1835 text:" Tudorbethan" shift:(5,-2 #1835–1885 # at:1815 text:" Biedermeier" #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 Romanticism, Romanticist Orientalism. It reached the height of its popularity after the mi ...
#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 c ...
" # 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 French campaign in Egypt and Syria, invasion of ...
" #1809–1820s # at:1804 text:" Empire (style)" #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 combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...
" # from:1780 till:1830 text:"
Federal architecture Federal-style architecture is the name for the classical architecture built in the United States following the American Revolution between 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was influenced heavily by the works of And ...
" 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 The Adam style (also called Adamesque or the Style of the Brothers Adam) is an 18th-century neoclassical style of interior design and architecture, as practised by Scottish architect William Adam and his sons, of whom Robert (1728–1792) and ...
" #1770 United Kingdom # at:1760 text:"
Gothic revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an Architectural style, architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half ...
" #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, less commonly Roccoco ( , ; or ), also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpte ...
" #1659— # at:1616 text:" Palladianism" #1616–1680 (I.Jones) # at:1600 text:"
Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...
" #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 Roman symbol of Britannia (a female per ...
" #(b.1533—d.1603) # at:1527 text:"
Mannerism Mannerism 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 Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it ...
" #1527–1600 # at:1520 text:" Spanish Colonial style" #1520s–c.1550*
Manueline The Manueline (, ), occasionally known as Portuguese late Gothic, is the sumptuous, composite Portuguese architectural style originating in the 16th century, during the Portuguese Renaissance and Age of Discoveries. Manueline architecture inco ...
1495 to 1521 (reign) # at:1485 text:" Tudor" #1485–1603 # at:1400 text:"
Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...
" #1400–1600 # at:1350 text:"
Brick Gothic Brick Gothic (, , ) is a specific style of Gothic architecture common in Baltic region, Northeast and Central Europe especially in the regions in and around the Baltic Sea, which do not have resources of standing rock (though Glacial erratic, ...
" #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-c ...
" #c.1350–c.1550 # at:1290 text:" Decorated Period" #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 a ...
" #1190–1250 # at:1190 text:"
Gothic architecture Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High Middle Ages, High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. It evolved f ...
" #1200(sic)—1400 #*
Neolithic architecture Neolithic architecture refers to structures encompassing housing and shelter from approximately 10,000 to 2,000 BC, the Neolithic period. In southwest Asia, Neolithic cultures appear soon after 10,000 BC, initially in the Levant ( Pre-Pottery N ...
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 History of ancient Egypt, split into periods by historians. Likewise, ancient Egyptian architecture is not one style, ...
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 typically refers to architecture consciously derived from the principles of Ancient Greek architecture, Greek and Ancient Roman architecture, Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or more specifically, from ''De archit ...
600 BC-323 AD #**
Ancient Greek architecture Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose Ancient Greece, culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Asia Minor, Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC ...
776 BC-265 BC #**
Roman architecture Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient 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 con ...
753 BC–663 AD #*
Byzantine architecture Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire, usually dated from 330 AD, when Constantine the Great established a new Roman capital in Byzantium, which became Constantinople, until the Fall of Cons ...
527 (Sofia)-1520 #*
Romanesque architecture Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries. The style eventually developed into the Gothic style with the shape of the arches providing a simple distinction: the Ro ...
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

See also
* Timeline of architecture * 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 Architecture lists + + Design-related lists
Architectural styles An architectural style is a classification of buildings (and nonbuilding structures) based on a set of characteristics and features, including overall appearance, arrangement of the components, method of construction, building materials used, for ...