This timeline shows the periods of various
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
*8000 years – the last 1000 years (fine grid) is expanded in the timeline below
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#at:800 text:"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
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 ...
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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 Constantin ...
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from:-753 till:663 text:" Roman" 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 p ...
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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 in southern North America and most of Central America. It extends from approximately central Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica. Withi ...
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from:-3200 till:373 text:" Ancient Egyptian" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from
from:-4500 till:-2000 text:"Sumerian
Sumerian or Sumerians may refer to:
*Sumer, an ancient civilization
**Sumerian language
**Sumerian art
**Sumerian architecture
**Sumerian literature
**Cuneiform script, used in Sumerian writing
*Sumerian Records, an American record label based in ...
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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 part ...
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1000AD—present
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#at:2006 text:" New Classical"
#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 livin ...
"
#at:2003 text:" Blobitecture"
#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
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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#at:1959 text:" Metabolist Movement" #1959 Japan
#at:1952 text:" Critical regionalism" #1952 global
from:1950 till:2007 text:" Postmodernism" 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 ...
" #1950s–1970s
#at:1950 text:" Googie" #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 International style may refer to:
* International Style (architecture), the early 20th century modern movement in architecture
*International style (art), the International Gothic style in medieval art
*International Style (dancing), a term used in ...
" 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" #1925–1936 Italy
#at:1922 text:" Egyptian Revival" #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" #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., 2 ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1919–1930s
#at:1915 text:"Spanish Colonial Revival
The Spanish Colonial Revival Style ( es, Arquitectura neocolonial española) is an architectural stylistic movement arising in the early 20th century based on the Spanish Colonial architecture of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
In the ...
" #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, ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1914–1960
#at:1912 text:" Amsterdam School" #1912–1924
#at:1910 text:" Expressionism" #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 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, an ...
" #1909 Europe
#at:1905 text:"Heliopolis style
Heliopolis style is an early 20th-century architectural style developed in the new suburb of Heliopolis in eastern Cairo, Egypt. The Belgian Cairo Electric Railways and Heliopolis Oases Company, responsible for planning and developing the new subu ...
" #1905 Egypt
#at:1902 text:" National Romantic style" #1902 Scandinavia
#at:1901 text:"Edwardian Baroque
Edwardian architecture is a Neo-Baroque architectural style that was popular in the British Empire during the Edwardian era (1901–1910). Architecture up to the year 1914 may also be included in this style.
Description
Edwardian architecture is ...
" #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, a ...
" #1898–1968 United Kingdom
#at:1898 text:"Pueblo Style
The Pueblo Revival style or Santa Fe style is a regional architectural style of the Southwestern United States, which draws its inspiration from Santa Fe de Nuevo México's traditional Pueblo architecture, the Spanish missions, and Territoria ...
#1898-1990s USA
#at:1894 text:"Mission revival style
The Mission Revival style was part of an architectural movement, beginning in the late 19th century, for the revival and reinterpretation of American colonial styles. Mission Revival drew inspiration from the late 18th and early 19th century ...
" #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 archi ...
" #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. ...
" 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 Moder ...
" #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 Moder ...
#at:1888 text:" Modernisme" #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 Moder ...
#from:1880 till:1914 text:"American Renaissance
The American Renaissance was a period of American architecture and the arts from 1876 to 1917, characterized by renewed national self-confidence and a feeling that the United States was the heir to Greek democracy, Roman law, and Renaissance h ...
" 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 Romanesq ...
" #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 trad ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #c.1850 and c.1900 switzerland, norway, US
#at:1848 text:"Neo-Grec
Néo-Grec was a Neoclassical Revival style of the mid-to-late 19th century that was popularized in architecture, the decorative arts, and in painting during France's Second Empire, or the reign of Napoleon III (1852–1870). The Néo-Grec v ...
" #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" #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 (1 ...
" shift:(5,-2) #1838
from:1837 till:1901 text:"Victorian
Victorian or Victorians may refer to:
19th century
* Victorian era, British history during Queen Victoria's 19th-century reign
** Victorian architecture
** Victorian house
** Victorian decorative arts
** Victorian fashion
** Victorian literature ...
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#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
The Russian Revival style (historiographical names are: ''Russian style'', russian: русский стиль, ''Pseudo-Russian style'', russian: псевдорусский стиль, ''Neo-Russian style'', russian: нео-русский стил ...
" 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" #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 drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italia ...
"
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 in ...
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from:1773 till:1850 text:" Pombaline style" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #Portugal
#at:1770 text:"Adam style
The Adam style (or Adamesque and "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 James ( ...
" #1770 United Kingdom
from:1760 till:1880 text:" Gothic revival" color:gris anchor:from #1760s–1880s
from:1750 till:1921 text:" Neoclassical" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from
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#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
Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including:
*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
" 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 Baroqu ...
" #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" shift:(0,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1616–1680 (I. Jones)
#at:1603 text:" Jacobean" # 1603 – 1625
from:1600 till:1745 text:" Baroque" 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 personif ...
" #(b.1533—d.1603)
from:1550 till:1750 text:"Mughal
Mughal or Moghul may refer to:
Related to the Mughal Empire
* Mughal Empire of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries
* Mughal dynasty
* Mughal emperors
* Mughal people, a social group of Central and South Asia
* Mughal architecture
* Mug ...
" 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" 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 ...
" 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 id ...
" 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 (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 reso ...
" #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, Bellar ...
" shift:(5,-2) color: gris anchor:from #1336–1535
#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
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" #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 ...
" 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 move ...
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1750–1900
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# from:start till:1581 text:"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 mathematics, Greek mathematicians and Ancient Greek astronomy, as ...
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at:1900 #blank line
# at:2003 text:" Blobitecture"
# 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" #1952 global
# from:1950 till:2007 text:" Postmodernism" 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 ...
" #1950s–1970s
# at:1950 text:" Googie" #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 International style may refer to:
* International Style (architecture), the early 20th century modern movement in architecture
*International style (art), the International Gothic style in medieval art
*International Style (dancing), a term used in ...
" 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" #1925–1936 Italy
# at:1922 text:" Egyptian Revival" #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" #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., 2 ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1919–1930s
# at:1915 text:"Spanish Colonial Revival
The Spanish Colonial Revival Style ( es, Arquitectura neocolonial española) is an architectural stylistic movement arising in the early 20th century based on the Spanish Colonial architecture of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
In the ...
" #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, ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1914–1960
# at:1912 text:" Amsterdam School" #1912–1924
# at:1910 text:" Expressionism" #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 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, an ...
" #1909 Europe
# at:1905 text:"Heliopolis style
Heliopolis style is an early 20th-century architectural style developed in the new suburb of Heliopolis in eastern Cairo, Egypt. The Belgian Cairo Electric Railways and Heliopolis Oases Company, responsible for planning and developing the new subu ...
" #1905 Egypt
# at:1902 text:" National Romantic style" #1902 Scandinavia
# at:1901 text:"Edwardian Baroque
Edwardian architecture is a Neo-Baroque architectural style that was popular in the British Empire during the Edwardian era (1901–1910). Architecture up to the year 1914 may also be included in this style.
Description
Edwardian architecture is ...
" #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, a ...
" #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
The Mission Revival style was part of an architectural movement, beginning in the late 19th century, for the revival and reinterpretation of American colonial styles. Mission Revival drew inspiration from the late 18th and early 19th century ...
" #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 archi ...
" #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. ...
" 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 Moder ...
" #1895(sic)-1926
at:1888 text:"Jungenstil
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 Moder ...
" #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 Moder ...
at:1888 text:" Modernisme" #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 Moder ...
from:1880 till:1914 text:"American Renaissance
The American Renaissance was a period of American architecture and the arts from 1876 to 1917, characterized by renewed national self-confidence and a feeling that the United States was the heir to Greek democracy, Roman law, and Renaissance h ...
" 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 Romanesq ...
" #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 trad ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #c.1850 and c.1900 switzerland, norway, US
at:1848 text:"Neo-Grec
Néo-Grec was a Neoclassical Revival style of the mid-to-late 19th century that was popularized in architecture, the decorative arts, and in painting during France's Second Empire, or the reign of Napoleon III (1852–1870). The Néo-Grec v ...
" #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" #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 (1 ...
" shift:(5,-2) #1838
from:1837 till:1901 text:"Victorian
Victorian or Victorians may refer to:
19th century
* Victorian era, British history during Queen Victoria's 19th-century reign
** Victorian architecture
** Victorian house
** Victorian decorative arts
** Victorian fashion
** Victorian literature ...
" 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" #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 drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italia ...
"
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 in ...
" 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 (or Adamesque and "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 James ( ...
" #1770 United Kingdom
at:1760 text:" Gothic revival" #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 Baroqu ...
" #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" #1616–1680 (I.Jones)
# at:1600 text:" Baroque" #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 personif ...
" #(b.1533—d.1603)
# at:1527 text:" Mannerism" #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 id ...
" #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 reso ...
" #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
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" #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. I ...
" #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 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 o ...
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 the ...
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 fo ...
1074–1250
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1900–present
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from:start till:end color:gris # Arri?re plan
# from:start till:1581 text:"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 mathematics, Greek mathematicians and Ancient Greek astronomy, as ...
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from:start till:end color:bleuclair text:"Timeline of architectural styles from 1900 to the present" fontsize:large anchor:from shift:(140,-6)
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at:2010 #blank line
from:2006 till:2020 text:" New Classical" 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 livin ...
" 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" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from
from:2000 till:2020 text:" Contemporary" 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" 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" 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 ...
" 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" 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 International style may refer to:
* International Style (architecture), the early 20th century modern movement in architecture
*International style (art), the International Gothic style in medieval art
*International Style (dancing), a term used in ...
" 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" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #1925–1945 Italy
from:1922 till:1927 text:" Egyptian Revival" 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 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., 2 ...
" 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
The Spanish Colonial Revival Style ( es, Arquitectura neocolonial española) is an architectural stylistic movement arising in the early 20th century based on the Spanish Colonial architecture of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
In the ...
" 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, ...
" 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" 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 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, an ...
" 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 in eastern Cairo, Egypt. The Belgian Cairo Electric Railways and Heliopolis Oases Company, responsible for planning and developing the new subu ...
" color:gris anchor:from #1905-1910 Egypt
from:1902 till:1916 text:" National Romantic style" color:gris anchor:from #1902-1916 Scandinavia
from:1901 till: 1910 text:"Edwardian Baroque
Edwardian architecture is a Neo-Baroque architectural style that was popular in the British Empire during the Edwardian era (1901–1910). Architecture up to the year 1914 may also be included in this style.
Description
Edwardian architecture is ...
" 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, a ...
" #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
The Mission Revival style was part of an architectural movement, beginning in the late 19th century, for the revival and reinterpretation of American colonial styles. Mission Revival drew inspiration from the late 18th and early 19th century ...
" #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 archi ...
" #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. ...
" 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 Moder ...
" #1895(sic)-1926
# at:1888 text:"Jungenstil
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 Moder ...
" #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 Moder ...
# at:1888 text:" Modernisme" #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 Moder ...
# from:1880 till:1914 text:"American Renaissance
The American Renaissance was a period of American architecture and the arts from 1876 to 1917, characterized by renewed national self-confidence and a feeling that the United States was the heir to Greek democracy, Roman law, and Renaissance h ...
" 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 Romanesq ...
" #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 trad ...
" shift:(5,-2) color:gris anchor:from #c.1850 and c.1900 switzerland, norway, US
# at:1848 text:"Neo-Grec
Néo-Grec was a Neoclassical Revival style of the mid-to-late 19th century that was popularized in architecture, the decorative arts, and in painting during France's Second Empire, or the reign of Napoleon III (1852–1870). The Néo-Grec v ...
" #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" #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 (1 ...
" shift:(5,-2) #1838
# from:1837 till:1901 text:"Victorian
Victorian or Victorians may refer to:
19th century
* Victorian era, British history during Queen Victoria's 19th-century reign
** Victorian architecture
** Victorian house
** Victorian decorative arts
** Victorian fashion
** Victorian literature ...
" 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" #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 drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italia ...
"
# 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 in ...
" 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 (or Adamesque and "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 James ( ...
" #1770 United Kingdom
# at:1760 text:" Gothic revival" #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 Baroqu ...
" #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" #1616–1680 (I.Jones)
# at:1600 text:" Baroque" #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 personif ...
" #(b.1533—d.1603)
# at:1527 text:" Mannerism" #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 id ...
" #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 reso ...
" #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
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" #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. I ...
" #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 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 o ...
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 the ...
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 fo ...
1074–1250
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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
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List of architectural styles
References
Voorthuis – Timelines
External links
Rndrd– a website documenting unbuilt architectural designs representative of the 20th century
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