Architectural style

Architectural style describes the long-standing attempts to classify architecture by periods, techniques, forms and materials. This is naturally to some extent arbitrary, but common traits can be discerned among architects working at the same time, in the same area of the world or being informed by one another.

Table of contents

1 Prehistoric Architecture 2 Ancient architecture 3 Western architecture upto Modernism 3.1 Classical architecture 3.2 Medieval architecture 3.3 Architecture from the Renaissance 4 Modern Architecture 5 Architecture after Modernism 6 Architecture in other traditions 6.4 Islamic architecture 6.5 Pre-Columbian American architecture 6.6 East Asian architecture 6.7 South Asian architecture 7 Architecture of the United States 8 See Also

Prehistoric Architecture

• Neolithic architecture

Ancient architecture

• Ancient Egyptian architecture
• Assyrian architecture
• Babylonian architecture
• Etruscan architecture
• Minoan architecture
• Mycenaean architecture
• Persian architecture
• Sumerian architecture

Western architecture upto Modernism

Classical architecture

Picture of the Pyramids of Giza provided by Classroom Clip Art

• Greek architecture
  • Doric order
  • Aeolic order
  • Ionic order
  • Corinthian order
• Roman architecture
  • Composite order
  • Tuscan order

Medieval architecture

• Byzantine architecture
• Romanesque architecture
• Gothic architecture
• Tudor and Jacobean architecture

Architecture from the Renaissance

• Renaissance architecture
• Baroque architecture
• Rococo architecture
• Georgian architecture
• Architectural revivals
  • Regency architecture
  • Neo-Classical architecture
  • Neo-Gothic architecture
  • Neo-Byzantine architecture
  • Neo-Romanesque architecture
  • Jacobethan architecture
  • Tudorbethan architecture
• Beaux Arts style

Modern Architecture

• Arts and Crafts Movement
• Art Nouveau
• Futurist architecture
• Constructivist architecture
• Chicago School
• De Stijl
• Art Deco
• Modern Movemement / International Style
• Brutalist architecture

Architecture after Modernism

• Postmodernism
• Deconstructivist Architecture
• Biomorphism
• Critical Regionalism

Architecture in other traditions

Islamic architecture

Pre-Columbian American architecture

• Aztec architecture
• Incan architecture
• Mayan architecture

East Asian architecture

• Architecture of Cambodia
• Chinese architecture
• Japanese architecture

South Asian architecture

• Bhutanese architecture
• Indian architecture

Architecture of the United States

See Also

• Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (1928 - 1959)
• Cultural movement
• Periodization