List of architectural styles explained

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 styles

Prehistoric

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.

• Neolithic 10,000–3000 BC

Ancient Americas

• Mesoamerican
• Mezcala
• Talud-tablero
• Western Native Americans

Mediterranean and Middle-East civilizations

• Phoenician 3000–500 BC
• Ancient Egyptian 3000 BC–373 BC
• Minoan 3000?+ BC (Crete)
  • Knossos (Crete)
• Mycenaean 1600–1100 BC (Greece)

Ancient Near East and Mesopotamia

• Sumerian 5300–2000 BC

Iranian/Persian

• Ancient Persian
  • Achaemenid
  • Sassanid
• Iranian, c. 8th century+ (Iran)
• Persian Garden Style (Iran)
  • Classical Style – Hayat
  • Formal Style – Meidān (public) or Charbagh (private)
  • Casual Style – Park (public) or Bāgh (private)
  • Paradise garden

Indic

• Bengalese
• Indian
• Indian rock-cut architecture
• Karnataka
• Kerala
• Tamil Nadu
• Pakistani
• Mauryan 321–185 BC (All India)
• Khmer
• Indonesian
• Myanmar architecture

Historic temple styles

• Buddhist Temple
• Hindu Temple
  • Dravidian Architecture (South Indian temple style) 610 to present
  • Bengal temple architecture: 1400 to present
  • Nagara Style
  • Māru-Gurjara architecture 900 to present (Rajasthan and Gujarat)
  • Vesara Style (hybrid form of Indian temple architecture, with South Indian plan and a shape that features North Indian details)
  • Badami Chalukya architecture

East Asian

• Ancient Chinese
• Japanese
• Korean

Also

• Harappan 3300–1600 BC
• Sikh

Classical Antiquity

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.

• Ancient Greek 776–265 BC
• Roman 753 BC–663 AD
• Etruscan 700–200 BC
• Classical 600 BC–323 AD
• Herodian 37–4 BC (Judea)
• Early Christian 100–500
• Byzantine 527–1520

Middle Ages

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 Europe

• Latin Armenian 4th–16th centuries
• Anglo-Saxon 450s–1066 (England)
• Bulgarian from 681
  • First Bulgarian Empire 681–1018
• Pre-Romanesque c. 700–1000 (Merovingian and Carolingian empires)
  • Iberian pre-Romanesque
  • Merovingian 5th–8th centuries (France, Germany, Italy and neighbouring locations)
  • Visigothic 5th–8th centuries (Spain and Portugal)
  • Asturian 711–910 (North Spain, North Portugal)
  • Carolingian 780s–9th century (mostly France, Germany)
  • Ottonian 950s–1050s (mostly Germany, also considered Early Romanesque)^[1]
• Repoblación 880s–11th century (Spain)

Medieval Europe

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.^[2]

• Medieval

Byzantine

• Late Byzantine architecture before 1520 (see above)
  • Kievan Rus' architecture 988–1237
  • Tarnovo Artistic School 12th–14th century (Bulgaria)
  • Rashka School 12th–15th centuries (Serbian principalities)
  • Morava School (Serbian principalities/Bulgaria)

Romanesque

• Pre-Romanesque (see above)
• First Romanesque 1000–? (France, Italy, Spain)
  • (including "Lombard Romanesque" in Italy)
• Romanesque 1000–1300
• Norman 1074–1250 (Normandy, UK, Ireland, South Italy and Sicily)
• Norman–Arab–Byzantine 1071–1200 (Sicily, Malta, South Italy)
• Cistercian Romanesque style c. 1120–c. 1240 (Europe)^[3]

Timber styles

• 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)

Gothic

1135/40–1520

• Gothic
• Cistercian Gothic 1138–15th century^[3] (various European countries)
• Angevin Gothic or Plantagenet Style since 1148 (western France)
• Early English Period c. 1190–c. 1250
• Gotico Angioiano since 1266 (southern Italy)
• Decorated Period c. 1290–c. 1350
• Perpendicular Period c. 1350–c. 1550
• Rayonnant Gothic 1240–c. 1350 (France, Germany, Central Europe)
• Venetian Gothic 14th–15th centuries (Venice in Italy)
• Spanish Gothic
  • Mudéjar Style c. 1200–1700 (Spain, Portugal, Latin America)^[4]
  • Aragonese Mudéjar c. 1200–1700 (Aragon in Spain)^[4]
  • Isabelline Gothic 1474–1505 (reign) (Spain)
  • Plateresque 1490–1560 (Spain & colonies, bridging Gothic and Renaissance styles)
• Brick Gothic mid 13th to 16th century (Germany, Netherlands, Flanders, Poland, northern Europe)
• Brabantine Gothic (Belgium and Netherlands) 14th century
• Flamboyant Gothic 1400–1500 (Spain, France, Portugal)
• Manueline 1495–1521 (Portugal and colonies)

Asian architecture contemporary with the Dark Ages and medieval Europe

Japanese

• Shinden-zukuri (Heian Period Japan)

Chinese

• Songnic architecture

Korean

• Hanok

Dravidian and Vesara temple styles (India)

• Badami Chalukya aka "Central Indian temple style" or "Deccan architecture" 450–700
• Rashtrakuta 750–983 (Central and South India)
• Western Chalukya aka Gadag 1050–1200 (Karnataka)
• Hoysala 900–1300 (Karnataka)
• Vijayanagara 1336–1565 (South India)

Other Indian styles

• Kalinga Architecture (Orissa and N Andhra Pradesh)
  • Rekha Deula
  • Pidha Deula
  • Khakhara Deula
• Hemadpanthi 1200–? (Maharashtra)
• Sikh architecture

Islamic Architecture 620–1918

• Central Styles (Multi-Regional)
  • Prophetic Era – based in Medina (c. 620–630)
  • Rashidi Period – based in Medina (c. 630–660)
  • Umayyad architecture – based in Damascus (c. 660–750)
  • Abbasid architecture – based in Baghdad (c. 750–1256)
  • Mamluk architecture – based in Cairo (c. 1256–1517)
  • Ottoman architecture – based in Istanbul (c. 1517–1918)
• Regional Styles
  • Egypt
    • Early Islamic architecture (Rashidi + Umayyad) (641–750)
    • Abbasid architecture (750–954)
    • Fatimid architecture (954–1170)
    • Ayyubid architecture (1174–1250)
    • Mamluk architecture (1254–1517)
    • Ottoman architecture (1517–1820)
  • North Africa (Maghrib)
    • The Umayyads (705–750)
    • The Abbasid Era (750–909)
    • The Fatimids (909–1048)
    • The Amazigh Dynasties (1048–1550)
      • Zirids 1048–1148 (Middle Maghreb)
      • Almoravids 1040–1147 (Far Maghreb)
      • Almohads 1121–1269 (Far Maghreb)
      • Hafsids 1229–1574 (Near and Middle Maghreb)
      • Marinids 1244–1465 (Middle and Far Maghreb)
      • Zayyanids 1235–1550 (Middle Maghreb)
    • Ottoman Rule 1550–1830 (Near and Middle Maghreb)
    • Local Dynasties 1549–present (Far Maghreb)
  • Islamic Spain
    • Umayyad architecture (756–1031)
    • Taifa Kingdoms-1 (1031–1090)
    • Almoravid architecture (1090–1147)
    • Taifa Kingdoms-2 (1140–1203)
    • Almohad architecture (1147–1238),
    • Taifa Kingdoms-3 (1232–1492)
      • Granada architecture (1287–1492)
  • Persia and Central Asia
    • Khurasani architecture (Late 7th–10th century)
    • Razi Style (10th–13th century)
      • Samanid Period (10th c.)
      • Ghaznawid Period (11th c.)
      • Saljuk Period (11th–12th c.)
      • Mongol Period (13th c.)
    • Timurid Style (14th–16th c.)
    • Isfahani Style (17th–19th c.)
  • Indian subcontinent
    • Indo-Islamic architecture (1204–1857)
      • Mughal architecture (1526–1707)
  • Turkey
    • Anatolian Seljuk architecture (1071–1299)
    • Ottoman architecture (1299–1922)
    • First national architectural movement (1908–1940)

Pre-Columbian Indigenous American Styles

See main article: Indigenous architecture.

• Aztec (ca. 14th century – 1521)
• Maya
• Pueblo
• Puuc

Early Modern Period and European Colonialism

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.^[5] 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.^[6]

• Renaissance c. 1425–1600 (Europe, American colonies)
  • Central European Renaissance
    • Polish Renaissance
  • French Renaissance
  • Eastern European Renaissance
• Palladian 1516–1580 (Venezia, Italy; revived in UK)
• Mannerism 1520–1600
  • Polish Mannerism 1550–1650
• Brâncovenesc style late 17th and early 18th centuries
• Eastern Orthodox Church 1400?+ (Southeast and Eastern Europe)

France

• Henry II 1530–1590
• Louis XIII 1601–1643

United Kingdom

• Tudor 1485–1603
• Elizabethan 1480–1620?
• Jacobean 1580–1660

Spain and Portugal

• Asturian pre-romanesque 711 - 910 (Kingdom of Asturias)
• Mudéjar Art 13th and 16th centuries
• Spanish Renaissance 15th and 16th centuries
• Plateresque continued from Spanish Gothic – 1560 (Spain & colonies, Low Countries)
• Herrerian 1550–1650 (Spain & colonies, primarily in Castille and the surroundings of Madrid)
• Barroque Churrigueresque 17th – 1750 (Hispanic countries, primarily in Spain and Mexico)
• Modernisme 1880s - 1910s (Primarily Catalonia, but also in Valencian Community, Majorca Island and Melilla)
• Portuguese Renaissance
• Portuguese Plain style 1580–1640 (Portugal & colonies)

Colonial

• Portuguese Colonial c. 1480–1820 (Brazil, India, Macao, Africa, East Timor)
• Spanish Colonial 1520s – c. 1820s (New World, East Indies, other colonies)
• Cape Dutch 1652–1802 (Cape Colony, South Africa)
• Netherlands Indies 1609–1949
  • Old Indies 18th century-19th century
  • Indies Empire mid-18th century–late 19th century
  • New Indies late 19th century–20th century (mixed architecture)
• Dutch Colonial 1615–1674 (Treaty of Westminster) (New England)
• Chilotan 1600+ (Chiloé and southern Chile)
• First Period 1625–1725 pre-American vernacular
• Architecture of the California missions 1769–1823, (California, US)
• French Colonial
• Colonial Georgian architecture

Baroque

1600–1800, up to 1900

• Andean Baroque, 1680–1780 (Viceroyalty of Peru)
• Baroque c. 1600–1750 (Europe, the Americas)
• English Baroque 1666 (Great Fire) – 1713 (Treaty of Utrecht)
• Spanish Baroque c. 1600–1760
  • Churrigueresque, 1660s–1750s (Spain & New World), revival 1915+ (southwest US, Hawaii)
  • Earthquake Baroque, 17th–18th centuries (Philippines)
• Maltese Baroque c. 1635–1798
• New Spanish Baroque, mid-17th-early-18th centuries (New Spain)
• French Baroque c. 1650–1789
• Dutch Baroque c. 1650–1700
• Sicilian Baroque 1693 earthquake – c. 1745
• Portuguese Joanine baroque c. 1700–1750
• Russian Baroque (c. 1680–1750)
  • Naryshkin Baroque c. 1690–1720 (Moscow, Russian Empire)
  • Petrine Baroque c. 1700–1745 (Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire)
  • Elizabethan Baroque 1736–1762 (Russian Empire)
• Ukrainian Baroque late 17th–18th centuries (Ukrainian lands)
• Rococo c. 1720–1789 (France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Russia, Spain)

Asian architecture contemporary with Renaissance and post-Renaissance Europe

Japanese

• Shoin-zukuri (1560s–1860s)
• Sukiya-zukuri (1530s–present)
• Minka (Japanese commoner or folk architecture)
  • Gassho-zukuri (Edo period and later)
  • Honmune-zukuri (Edo period and later)
• Imperial Crown Style (1919–1945)
• Giyōfū architecture (1800s)

Indian

• Indo-Islamic
• Mughal 1540–? (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh)
  • Akbari
  • Mughal Garden Style
• Sharqi aka Janpur Style

Late Modern Period and the Industrial Revolution

Neoclassicism

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

Neoclassical

• Neoclassical c. 1715–1820
• Beaux-Arts 1670+ (France) and 1880 (US)
• Georgian 1720–1840s (UK, US)
  • Jamaican Georgian architecture c. 1750 – c. 1850 (Jamaica)
• American Colonial 1720–1780s (US)
• Pombaline style 1755 – c. 1860 (Lisbon in Portugal)
• Josephinischer Stil 1760–1780/90 (Austria)
• Adam style 1760–1795 (England, Scotland, Russia, US)
• Federal 1780–1830 (US)
• Empire 1804–1830, revival 1870 (Europe, US)
• Regency 1811–1830 (UK)
• Antebellum 1812–1861 (Southern United States)
• Palazzo Style 1814–1930? (Europe, Australia, US)
• Neo-Palladian
  • Jeffersonian 1790s–1830s (Virginia in US)
  • American Empire 1810
• Greek Revival architecture
  • Rundbogenstil 1835–1900 (Germany)
  • Neo-Grec 1845–65 (UK, US, France)
• Nordic Classicism 1910–30 (Norway, Sweden, Denmark & Finland)
• Polish Neoclassicism (Poland)
• New Classical architecture 20th/21st century (global)
• Temple 1832+ (global)

Revivalism and Orientalism

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.

• Revivalism
• Resort architecture (Germany)
• Victorian 1837–1901 (UK)
  • See also San Francisco architecture
• Edwardian 1901–1910 (UK)

Revivals started before the Victorian Era

• Gothic Revival 1740s+ (UK, US, Europe)
  • Scots Baronial (UK)
• Italianate 1802–1890 (UK, Europe, US)
• Egyptian Revival 1809–1820s, 1840s, 1920s (Europe, US)
• Biedermeier 1815–1848 (Central Europe)
• Russian Revival 1826–1917 (Russian Empire, Germany, Middle Asia)
• Russo-Byzantine style 1861–1917 (Russian Empire, Balkans)
• Russian neoclassical revival 1900–1920 (Russian Empire)

Victorian revivals

• Renaissance Revival 1840–1890 (UK)
  • Timber frame revivals in various styles (Europe)
  • Black-and-white Revival 1811+ (UK especially Chester)
  • Jacobethan 1830–1870 (UK)
  • Tudorbethan aka Mock Tudor 1835–1885+ (UK)
• Baroque Revival aka Neo-Baroque 1840?-
  • Bristol Byzantine 1850–1880
  • Edwardian Baroque 1901–1922 (UK & British Empire)
• Second Empire 1855–1880 (France, UK, US, Canada, Australia)
  • Napoleon III style 1852–1870 (Paris, France)
• Queen Anne Style 1870–1910s (UK, US)
• Romanian Revival 1884-1940s (Romania)

Orientalism

• Orientalism
• Neo-Mudéjar 1880s–1920s (Spain, Portugal, Bosnia, California)
• Moorish Revival (US, Europe)
• Egyptian Revival 1920s (Europe, US; see above)
• Mayan Revival 1920–1930s (US)
• Indo-Saracenic Revival aka Hindu Style, Indo-Gothic, Mughal-Gothic, Neo-Mughal, Hindu-Gothic late 19th century (British India, aka The Raj)

Revivals in North America

• Romanesque Revival 1840–1930s (US)
• Gothic Revival (see above)
  • Carpenter Gothic 1870+ (US)
  • High Victorian Gothic (English-speaking world)
  • Collegiate Gothic, 1910–1960 (US)
• Stick Style 1860–1890+ (US)
• Queen Anne Style architecture (United States) 1880–1910s (US)
  • Eastlake Style 1879–1905 (US)
• Richardsonian Romanesque 1880s–1905 (US)
• Shingle Style 1879–1905
• Neo-Byzantine 1882–1920s (US)
• Renaissance Revival
  • American Renaissance
  • Châteauesque 1887–1930s (Canada, US, Hungary)
    • Canadian Chateau 1880s–1920s (Canada)
  • Mediterranean Revival 1890s+ (US, Latin America, Europe)
• Mission Revival 1894–1936; (California, southwest US)
  • Pueblo Revival 1898–1930+ (southwest US)
• Colonial Revival 1890s+
• Dutch Colonial Revival c. 1900 (New England)
• Spanish Colonial Revival 1915+ (Mexico, California, Hawaii, Florida, southwest US)
• Beaux-Arts Revival 1880+ (US, Canada), 1920+ (Australia)
• City Beautiful 1890–20th century (US)
• Territorial Revival architecture 1930+

Other late 19th century styles

• Australian styles
  • Queenslander 1840s–1960s (Australian)
  • Federation 1890–1920 (Australian)
• Heimatstil 1870–1900 (Austria, Germany, Switzerland
• Neoclásico Isabelino 1843–1897 (Ponce, Puerto Rico)
• Neo-Manueline 1840s–1910s (Portugal, Brazil, Portuguese colonies)
• Dragestil 1880s–1910s (Norway)
• Palazzo style architecture
• Neo-Plateresque and Monterrey Style 19th-early 20th centuries (Spain, Mexico)

Rural styles

• Swiss chalet style 1840s–1920s+ (Scandinavia, Austria, Germany, later global)
• Adirondack 1850s (New York, US)
• National Park Service rustic aka Parkitecture 1903+ (US)
• Western false front (Western United States)

Reactions to the Industrial Revolution

Industrial

• Industrial, 1760–present (worldwide)

Arts and Crafts in Europe

• Arts and Crafts 1880–1910 (UK)
• Art Nouveau aka Jugendstil 1885–1910
  • Modernisme 1888–1911 (Catalan Art Nouveau)
  • Glasgow Style 1890–1910 (Glasgow, Scotland)
  • Vienna Secession 1897–1905 (Austrian Art Nouveau)
• National Romantic style 1900–1923? (Norway, Sweden, Denmark & Finland)

Arts and Crafts in the US

• American Craftsman, aka American Arts and Crafts 1890s–1930 (US)
• Prairie Style 1900–1917 (US)
• American Foursquare mid-1890s – late 1930s (US)
• California Bungalow 1910–1939 (US, Australia, then global)

Modernism and other styles contemporary with modernism

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.

• Avant-garde
  • Parametricism 2008+
  • Russian avant-garde 1890–1930 (Russian Empire/Soviet Union)
• Chicago School 1880–1920, 1940s–1960s (US)
• Functionalism c. 1900 – 1930s (Europe, US)
• Futurism 1909 (Europe)
• Expressionism 1910 – c. 1924
  • Amsterdam School 1912–1924 (Netherlands)
• Organic architecture
• New Objectivity 1920–1939 (Italy, Germany, Holland, Budapest)
• Rationalism 1920s–1930s (Italy)
• Bauhaus 1919–1930+ (Germany, Northern Europe)
• De Stijl 1920s (Holland, Europe)
• Moderne 1925+ (global)
  • Art Deco 1925–1940s (global)
    • List of Art Deco architecture
  • Streamline Moderne 1930–1937
• Modernism 1927–1960s
• International Style 1930+ (Europe, US)
• Usonian 1936–1940s (US)

Modernism under communism

• Constructivism 1925–1932 (USSR)
• Postconstructivism 1932–1941 (USSR)
• Stalinist 1933–1955 (USSR)

Fascist/Nazi

• Fascist architecture
• Nazi 1933–1944 (Germany)

Post-Second World War

1945–

• Modernism (continued)
• International Style (continued)
• New towns 1946–1968+ (UK, global)
• Mid-century modern 1950s (California, etc.)
• Googie 1950s (US)
• Brutalism 1950s–1970s
• Structuralism 1950s–1970s
  • Megastructures 1960s
• Metabolist 1959 (Japan)
• Danish Functionalism 1960s (Denmark)
• Structural Expressionism aka Hi-Tech 1980s+

Other 20th century styles

• Heimatschutz Architecture 1900–1940 (Austria, Germany)
• Ponce Creole 1895–1920 (Ponce in Puerto Rico)
• Heliopolis style 1905 – c. 1935 (Egypt)
• Mar del Plata style 1935–1950 (Mar del Plata, Argentina)
• Minimal Traditional 1930s–1940s (US)
• Soft Portuguese 1940–1955 (Portugal & colonies)
• Ranch-style 1940s–1970s (US)
• Jengki style (Indonesia)

Postmodernism and early 21st century styles

• Postmodernism 1945+ (US, UK)
• Bowellism
• Shed Style
• Arcology 1970s+ (Europe)
• Deconstructivism 1982+ (Europe, US, Far East)
• Critical regionalism 1983+
• Blobitecture 2003+
• High-tech 1970s+
• Interactive architecture 2000+
• Sustainable architecture 2000+
  • Earthship 1980+ (Started in US, now global)
• Green building 2000+
• Natural building 2000+
• Neo-Andean 2005+
• Neo-futurism late 1960s-early 21st century
• New Classical Architecture 1980+
• New London Vernacular 2009+
• Berlin Style 1990s+
• Mass timber 2010s+

Fortified styles

• Fortification 6800 BC+
  • Ringfort 800 BC – 400 AD
  • Dzong 17th century+
  • Star fort 1530–1800?
  • Polygonal fort 1850?-

Vernacular styles

• Vernacular architecture

Generic methods

• Natural building
• Ice – Igloo, quinzhee
• Earth – Cob house, sod house, adobe, mudbrick house, rammed earth
• Timber – Log cabin, log house, Carpenter Gothic, roundhouse, stilt house
• Nomadic structures – Yaranga, bender tent
• Temporary structures – Quonset hut, Nissen hut, prefabricated home
• Underground – Underground living, rock-cut architecture, monolithic church, pit-house
• Modern low-energy systems – Straw-bale construction, earthbag construction, rice-hull bagwall construction, earthship, earth house
• Various styles – Longhouse

European

• European Arctic (North Norway and Sweden, Finland, North Russia) – Sami lavvu, Sami goahti
• Northwest Europe (Norway, Sweden, Fresia, Jutland, Denmark, North Poland, UK, Iceland) – Norse architecture, heathen hofs, Viking ring fortress, fogou, souterrain, Grubenhaus (also known as Grubhouse or Grubhut)
• Central and Eastern Europe – Burdei, zemlyanka
• Bulgaria – Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
• Estonia
• Germany – Black Forest house, Swiss chalet style, Gulf house (aka East Frisian house), Geestharden house (aka Cimbrian house, Schleswig house), Haubarg, Low German house (aka Low Saxon house), Middle German house, Reed house, Seaside resort house, Ständerhaus, Uthland-Frisian house
• Netherlands – Frisian farmhouse, Old Frisian longhouse, Bildts farmhouse
• Iceland – Turf houses
• Ireland – Clochán, Crannog
• Italy – Trullo
• Lithuania – Kaunas modernism, Lithuanian folk architecture, Polish-Lithuanian wooden synagogues
• Norway – Architecture of Norway: Post church, Palisade church, Stave church, Norwegian Turf house, Vernacular architecture in Norway, Rorbu, Dragestil, also National Romantic style, Swiss chalet style and Nordic Classicism buildings
• Poland – Zakopane, Polish-Lithuanian wooden synagogues, wooden churches of Southern Lesser Poland, Upper Lusatian house
• Romania – Carpathian vernacular, wooden churches of Maramureș
• Russia – Dacha
• Scotland – Medieval turf building in Cronberry, blackhouses
• Slovakia – Wooden churches of the Slovak Carpathians
• Spain – Asturian teito, Asturian hórreo, Gallician palloza
• Ukraine – Wooden churches
• United Kingdom – Dartmoor longhouse, Neolithic long house, palisade church, mid-20th-century system-built houses
  • Scotland – Broch, Atlantic roundhouse, crannog, dun

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North American Shotgun house (US) Florida Cracker c. 1800+ (Florida, US) Tidewater (US) Sibley tent (US) Sod house (US) Cape Cod (New England, US) Saltbox (New England, US) Farmhouse (US) Brownstone (US) Bay-and-gable (CAN)

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Native American Navajo hogan Pacific northwest plank house Plains nations tipi and earth lodge Wigwam Northeast nations wetu Pueblo kiva Colombian plateau nations quiggly hole Southwest nations jacal Southwestern cliff dwellings Seminole chickee Sweat lodge, temazcal Amerindian longhouses

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South American Argentina – Mar del Plata style Chile – Chilotan architecture Venezuela and Chile – Palafito

African

• Central and South African countries – Rondavel, Xhosa and Zulu Architecture, Zimbabwean Architecture, Sotho-Tswana Architecture, Zulu and Nguni Architecture, and Madagascan Architecture
• Dutch Colonial, Cape Dutch

Asian

• China
  • Yaodong
  • Siheyuan
  • Tulou
  • Shanxi
  • Hokkien
  • Cantonese
  • Hui
  • Hakka
  • Jiangxi
  • Sichuan
  • Pang uk (Architecture of Hong Kong)
• India – Rock-cut, Toda hut
• Indonesia – Uma longhouse, attap dwelling
• Iran, Turkey – Caravanserai
• Iran – Yakhchal
• Israel – Rock-cut tombs
• Japan – Minka
• Mongolia – Yurt
• Papua New Guinea – Papua New Guinea stilt house
• Philippines – Bahay kubo, Jin-jin, Torogan, Bale
• Russia – Siberian chum
• Thailand – Thai stilt house
• Myanmar – Shwenandaw Monastery

Australasian

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

See also

• National Register of Historic Places architectural style categories
• Architectural design values
• Feminism and modern architecture
• List of house styles
• Sacred architecture
  • Architecture of cathedrals and great churches
  • Synagogue architecture
• Timeline of architecture
• Timeline of architectural styles
• Parametricism

References

• Book: White, Norval. Elliott Willensky. 2000. AIA Guide to New York. New York. Random House. 4th. 0-8129-3107-6.
• Lewis, Philippa; Gillian Darley (1986). Dictionary of Ornament, NY: Pantheon
• Baker, John Milnes, AIA (1994) American House Styles, NY: Norton

Further reading

• 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 links

• Victoria & Albert Museum Microsite on Introduction to Architectural Styles

Notes and References

1. Hans Erich Kubach. Architektur der Romanik, 1973/1974, 3-7630-1705-7, p. 63–144 Die erste Romanische Kunst – Frühromanische Architektur
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=zyHqAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA75 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
3. https://gebaut.eu/pontigny_romanik_gotik/pontigny_romanik_gotik.html Gebaut, Burgundische Romanik – Pontigny – Zisterziensergotik
4. Really, Mudéjar style had phases according to the general European styles, there was Romanesque Mudéjar, Gothic Mudéjar and even Renaissance Mudéjar.
5. Gerald Leinwand, The pageant of world history, Prentice-Hall, 1990, page 330
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=7jzT0qcJu1MC&dq=false&pg=PA333 Jackson J. Spielvogel (2010), Western Civilization: A Brief History. Cengage Learning. page 333