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Frederick C. Robie House, an example of Prairie School architecture

An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable and historically identifiable. A style may include such elements as form, method of construction, building materials, and regional character. Most architecture can be classified as a chronology of styles which change over time reflecting changing fashions, beliefs and religions, or the emergence of new ideas, technology, or materials which make new styles possible.

Styles therefore emerge from the history of a society and are documented in the subject of architectural history. At any time several styles may be fashionable, and when a style changes it usually does so gradually, as architects learn and adapt to new ideas. Styles often spread to other places, so that the style at its source continues to develop in new ways while other countries follow with their own twist. A style may also spread through colonialism, either by foreign colonies learning from their home country, or by settlers moving to a new land. After a style has gone out of fashion, there are often revivals and re-interpretations. For instance, classicism has been revived many times and found new life as neoclassicism. Each time it is revived, it is different.

Vernacular architecture works slightly differently and is listed separately. It is the native method of construction used by local people, usually using labour-intensive methods and local materials, and usually for small structures such as rural cottages. It varies from region to region even within a country, and takes little account of national styles or technology. As western society has developed, vernacular styles have mostly become outmoded by new technology and national building standards.

Chronology of stylesEdit

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PrehistoricEdit

Early civilizations developed, often independently, in scattered locations around the globe. The architecture was often a mixture of styles in timber cut from local forests and stone hewn from local rocks. Most of the timber has gone, although the earthworks remain. Impressively, massive stone structures have survived for years.

Ancient AmericasEdit

Mediterranean and Middle-East civilizationsEdit

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Ancient Near East and MesopotamiaEdit

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Iranian/PersianEdit

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Ancient AsianEdit

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Classical Era in South AsiaEdit

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East AsianEdit

Ancient South Asian ArchitectureEdit

Classical AntiquityEdit

The architecture of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, derived from the ancient Mediterranean civilizations such as at Knossos on Crete. They developed highly refined systems for proportions and style, using mathematics and geometry.

Middle AgesEdit

The European Early Middle Ages are generally taken to run from the end of the Roman Empire, around 400 AD, to around 1000 AD. During this period, Christianity made a significant impact on European culture.

Early medieval EuropeEdit

Medieval EuropeEdit

The dominance of the Church over everyday life was expressed in grand spiritual designs which emphasized piety and sobriety. The Romanesque style was simple and austere. The Gothic style heightened the effect with heavenly spires, pointed arches and religious carvings.<ref>Robert Stuart (1854), Cyclopedia of architecture: historical, descriptive, typographical, decorative, theoretical and mechanical, alphabetically arranged, familiarly explained, and adapted to the comprehension of workmen, A. S. Barnes & Co, p. 75</ref>

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ByzantineEdit
RomanesqueEdit
Timber stylesEdit
  • Stave churches, oldest 845(d) in England, in Norway one 11th century, several 12th century, some with Romanesque elements
  • Timber frame styles, mostly Gothic or later (UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands)

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GothicEdit

1135/40–1520

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Asian architecture During its Late classical and medieval agesEdit

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JapaneseEdit
ChineseEdit
KoreanEdit

South AsiaEdit

Late Dravidian temple stylesEdit

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( Dravidian influenced) South Asian Architecture stylesEdit

Islamic architecture 620–1918Edit

Pre-Columbian Indigenous American StylesEdit

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Early Modern Period and European ColonialismEdit

1425–1660. The Renaissance began in Italy and spread through Europe, rebelling against the all-powerful Church, by placing Man at the centre of his world instead of God.<ref>Gerald Leinwand, The pageant of world history, Prentice-Hall, 1990, page 330</ref> The Gothic spires and pointed arches were replaced by classical domes and rounded arches, with comfortable spaces and entertaining details, in a celebration of humanity. The Baroque style was a florid development of this 200 years later, largely by the Catholic Church to restate its religious values.<ref>Jackson J. Spielvogel (2010), Western Civilization: A Brief History. Cengage Learning. page 333 Template:ISBN</ref>

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RenaissanceEdit

c. 1425–1600 (Europe, American colonies)

FranceEdit

United KingdomEdit

Spain and PortugalEdit

ColonialEdit

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BaroqueEdit

1600–1800, up to 1900

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Asian architecture contemporary with Renaissance and post-Renaissance EuropeEdit

JapaneseEdit
IndianEdit

Late Modern Period and the Industrial RevolutionEdit

NeoclassicismEdit

1720–1837 and onward. A time often depicted as a rural idyll by the great painters, but in fact was a hive of early industrial activity, with small kilns and workshops springing up wherever materials could be mined or manufactured. After the Renaissance, neoclassical forms were developed and refined into new styles for public buildings and the gentry.

New Cooperism

NeoclassicalEdit

Revivalism and OrientalismEdit

Late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Victorian Era was a time of giant leaps forward in technology and society, such as iron bridges, aqueducts, sewer systems, roads, canals, trains, and factories. As engineers, inventors, and businessmen they reshaped much of the British Empire, including the UK, India, Australia, South Africa, and Canada, and influenced Europe and the United States. Architecturally, they were revivalists who modified old styles to suit new purposes.

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Revivals started before the Victorian EraEdit
Victorian revivalsEdit
OrientalismEdit

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Revivals in North AmericaEdit

Other late 19th century stylesEdit

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Rural stylesEdit

Reactions to the Industrial RevolutionEdit

IndustrialEdit

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Arts and Crafts in EuropeEdit

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Arts and Crafts in the USEdit

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Modernism and other styles contemporary with modernismEdit

1880 onwards. The Industrial Revolution had brought steel, plate glass, and mass-produced components. These enabled a brave new world of bold structural frames, with clean lines and plain or shiny surfaces. In the early stages, a popular motto was "decoration is a crime". In the Eastern Bloc the Communists rejected the Western Bloc's 'decadent' ways, and modernism developed in a markedly more bureaucratic, sombre, and monumental fashion.

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Modernism under communismEdit

Fascist/NaziEdit

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Post-Second World WarEdit

1945–

Other 20th century stylesEdit

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Postmodernism and early 21st century stylesEdit

Fortified stylesEdit

Vernacular stylesEdit

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Generic methodsEdit

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EuropeanEdit

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North AmericanEdit

Native AmericanEdit

South AmericanEdit

AfricanEdit

AsianEdit

AustralasianEdit

  • Australia, New Zealand – slab hut
  • Australia – Aborigine humpy

Alphabetical listingEdit

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Examples of stylesEdit

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

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  • Lewis, Philippa; Gillian Darley (1986). Dictionary of Ornament, NY: Pantheon
  • Baker, John Milnes, AIA (1994) American House Styles, NY: Norton

Further readingEdit

  • Hamlin Alfred Dwight Foster, History of Architectural Styles, BiblioBazaar, 2009
  • Carson Dunlop, Architectural Styles, Dearborn Real Estate, 2003
  • Herbert Pothorn, A guide to architectural styles, Phaidon, 1983

External linksEdit

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