Architectural styles

The Adam style (or Adamesque) is a style of neoclassical architecture and design as practised by Scottish architect Robert Adam ( 1728- 1792) and his brothers. A book of engraved designs made the "Adam" repertory available throughout Europe. A parallel development of this early phase of neoclassical design is French " Louis XVI style. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adam style"

American Empire is a French-inspired Neo-classical style of American furniture and decoration that was initiated just before 1800 and is most famously exemplified by the furniture of Duncan Phyfe and Paris-trained Charles-Honoré Lannuier. Their work in this style is characterized by antiquities-inspired carving, applied, gilded brass mounts, and inlaid decorative elements such as stamped brass banding with egg-and-dart, diamond, or greek key patterns, or individual shapes such as stars or circles. The most elaborate examples were made before around 1825, and incorporate carved columns and figures finished with a combination of gilding and vert-antique. A more plain version of American Empire furniture, usually referred to as the Grecian style, generally demonstrates curved forms, figured mahogany veneer, and sometimes stencilled decorations. This American version of the Central-European Biedermeier style, continued to be made in conservative centers past the mid-nineteenth century.Two major centers of American Empire style cabinet-making were New York and Baltimore. ...more on Wikipedia about "American Empire (style)"

Archigram was an avant-garde architectural group formed in the 1960s - based at the Architectural Association, London - that was futurist, anti-heroic and pro-consumerist, drawing inspiration from technology in order to create a new reality that was solely expressed through hypothetical projects. The main members of the group were Peter Cook, Warren Chalk, Ron Herron, Dennis Crompton, Michael Webb and David Greene. The pamphlet Archigram I brought out in 1961 proclaimed their ideas. Committed to a 'high tech', light weight, infrastructural approach that was focussed towards survival technology, the group experimented with clip-on technology, throwaway environment, space capsules and mass-consumer imagery. Their works offered a seductive vision of a glamorous future machine age, however social and environmental issues were left unaddressed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Archigram"

Architectural style constitutes a mode of classifying architecture largely by morphological characteristics in terms of form, techniques, materials, etc. However it is not a holistic way of understanding architectural works because of its emphasis on style. It overlaps with and emerges from the study of the evolution and history of architecture, but it is slightly different in its emphasis. While in architectural history, the study of, for instance, Gothic architecture would include all the aspects of the cultural context that went into the making of architectural works, architectural style is a way of classifying architecture that gives emphasis to the characteristic features of Gothic architecture, leading to a terminology such as Gothic style. This could then apply equally to buildings even produced during periods outside the historic period of Gothic architecture. Thus one could build a Gothic style church even today irrespective of the historic period from which the style emerged. ...more on Wikipedia about "Architectural style"

Art Nouveau (French for "new art") is a style in art, architecture and design that peaked in popularity at the beginning of the 20th century. Other, more localized terms for the cluster of self-consciously radical, somewhat mannered reformist chic that formed a prelude to 20th-century modernism, included " Jugendstil" in Germany and the Netherlands, named for the snappy avant-garde periodical Jugend ('Youth') or " Sezessionsstil" ('Secessionism') in Vienna, where forward-looking artists and designers seceded from the mainstream salon exhibitions, to exhibit on their own in more congenial surroundings. ...more on Wikipedia about "Art Nouveau"

Australian architectural styles have been basically exotic and derivative. Until recent times building styles were only slightly modified by climate, materials and skills. There were no indigenous craftsmen to influence the ideas and knowledge that the British settlers brought with them when settling Australia from 1788. During the nineteenth century, Australian architects were inspired by developments in England. In the twentieth century, American and International influences dominated. ...more on Wikipedia about "Australian architectural styles"

Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state. New architectural concerns for color, light and shade, sculptural values and intensity characterize the Baroque. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baroque architecture"

Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus, an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933, and for the approach to design that it developed and taught. The most natural meaning for its name (related to the German verb for "build") is Architecture House. Bauhaus style became one of the most influential currents in Modernist architecture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bauhaus"

Beaux-Arts architecture denotes the academic classical architectural style that was taught at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, the home territory of this style, which influenced American architecture in the period 1885– 1920. British architects of Imperial classicism, in a development culminating in Sir Edwin Lutyens's New Delhi government buildings, followed a somewhat more independent course, owing to the cultural politics of the late 19th century. The phrase Beaux Arts is usually translated as " Fine Arts" in English contexts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beaux-Arts architecture"

Biedermeier refers to work in the fields of literature, music, the visual arts and interior design in the period between the years 1815 (Vienna Congress), the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the European revolutions and contrasts with the Romantic era which preceded it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Biedermeier"

Architecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina is largely influenced by 4 major periods where political and social changes influenced the creation of distinct cultural and architectural habits of the population. Each period made its authentic influence on the overall picture and contributed to a greater diversity of cultures and architectural language in this region. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bosnian architecture"

Brutalism is an architectural style that spawned from the modernist architectural movement and which flourished from the 1950s to the 1970s. The early style was largely inspired by the work of Swiss architect, Le Corbusier (in particular his Unité d'Habitation building) and of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The term originates from the French béton brut, or "raw concrete". Brutalist buildings are usually formed with striking blockish, geometric, and repetitive shapes, and often revealing the textures of the wooden forms used to shape the material, which is normally rough, unadorned poured concrete. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brutalist architecture"

Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine empire. The empire emerged gradually after AD 330, when Constantine moved the capital of the Roman empire to Byzantium, which was later renamed Constantinople and is now Istanbul. ...more on Wikipedia about "Byzantine architecture"

Chateauesque is an architectural style based on French cheateaux style used in the 1400s in the Loire Valley. It was popularized in the United States by Richard Morris Hunt during the 1880s. The style is basically a modernized stone castle with elaborate towers and spires and Gothic and Victorian ornamentations. The style began to fade after the 1900s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chateauesque"

Chicago architecture is famous throughout the world and one style is referred to as the Chicago School. In the history of architecture, the Chicago School was a school of architects active in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century. They were among the first ...more on Wikipedia about "Chicago school (architecture)"

The City Beautiful movement was a Progressive reform movement in North American architecture and urban planning that flourished in the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of using beautification and monumental grandeur in cities to counteract the perceived moral decay of poverty-stricken urban environments. The movement, which was originally most closely associated with Chicago and Washington, D.C., did not seek beauty for its own sake, but rather as a social control device for creating moral and civic virtue among urban populations. Advocates of the movement believed that such beautification could thus provide a harmonious social order that would improve the lives of the inner-city poor. ...more on Wikipedia about "City Beautiful movement"

The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style in the United States. In the early 1890s — a time when manifest destiny was at its peak — Americans began to value their own heritage and architecture. Colonial Revival sought to follow the style of the period around the Revolutionary War. Distinctive in this style are multiple columned porches, and doors with fanlights and sidelights. ...more on Wikipedia about "Colonial Revival architecture"

De Stijl (in English generally pronounced duh-STILE; from the Dutch for "the style" – Dutch pronunciation: IPA /də stɛil/) was an artistic movement in the 1920s. The movement is also known as neoplasticism — the new plastic art (or Nieuwe Beelding in Dutch). ...more on Wikipedia about "De Stijl"

(Deconstructivism) You might be looking for the philosophical idea of Deconstruction. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deconstructivism"

A dingbat (also called a stucco box or a shoebox), is a type of architecturally undistinguished apartment building that flourished in the Sun Belt region of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. Dingbats are boxy, two- or three-story apartment houses with overhangs sheltering street-front parking. The elevation view of a dingbat is "half parking structure, half dumb box." ...more on Wikipedia about "Dingbat (building)"

Egyptian Revival is (primarily) an architectural style that references the visual motifs and imagery of Ancient Egypt. It has never been enormously popular, unlike Greek Revival or Victorian was, but it has left its mark. There were several waves. ...more on Wikipedia about "Egyptian Revival architecture" The article you are reading is from http://www.shortopedia.com shortopedia

Elizabethan Style, in architecture, the term given to the early Renaissance style in England, which flourished chiefly during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; it followed the Tudor style, and was succeeded in the beginning of the 16th century by the purer Italian style introduced by Inigo Jones. It responds to the Cinque-Cento period in Italy, the Francois I style in France, and the Plateresque or Silversmiths style in Spain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elizabethan architecture"

Empire is an early 19th century style of architecture and furniture design that and originates from Napoleon's rule of France. It came after romanticism and before realism, slightly predating Biedermeier. It is the second phase of neoclassicism which is also called "Directoire". ...more on Wikipedia about "Empire (style)"

Federal style architecture occurred in the United States between 1780 and 1830, particularly from 1785 to 1815. Federal style developed from the Georgian Neoclassical style, but differed in its use of plainer surfaces with attenuated detail; it was most influenced by the Adam style, an interpretation of Ancient Roman architecture fashionable after the unearthing of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The American eagle was a common symbol used in this style, with the ellipse a frequent architectural motif. ...more on Wikipedia about "Federal architecture"

The Federal Capital Commission (FCC) was a body of the Australian government formed to construct and administer Canberra from 1925. The Chief Commissioner of the body was Sir John Butters. ...more on Wikipedia about "Federal Capital Commission"

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