Architectural style

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Architectural style is a way 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 these structures, 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.

Adam style American Empire (style) Archigram Art Deco Art Nouveau Baroque architecture List of examples of typical Baroque architecture Bauhaus Beaux-Arts architecture Biedermeier Bosnian architecture Brutalist architecture Byzantine architecture Cathedral architecture Chicago school (architecture) Chinese architecture Hakka architecture City Beautiful movement Classical architecture Greek architecture Roman architecture Colonial Revival architecture Deconstructivism Egyptian Revival architecture Elizabethan architecture Empire (style) Expressionist Style Federal architecture Futurist architecture Georgian architecture Googie architecture Gothic architecture Early English Period Decorated Period Perpendicular Period Gothic Revival architecture Greek architecture Greek Revival architecture Ideological architecture Nazi architecture Volkshalle Stalinist architecture Indo-Saracenic Indian Architecture International style (architecture) Italianate Jacobethan Jakriborg Japanese architecture List of house styles

Manueline Mediterranean Revival Style architecture Memphis Group Metabolist Movement Mid-century modern Mission Revival Style architecture Modern architecture Modernisme Moroccan style Mudéjar architecture Nazi architecture Neo-Byzantine architecture Neo-Grec Neo-gothic architecture Neoclassical architecture Neoclassicism Norman architecture Palladian architecture Persian (Iranian) architecture Postmodern architecture Prairie Houses Queen Anne Style architecture Queenslander (architecture) Regency architecture Religious architecture Cathedral architecture Synagogue architecture Retro-futurism Richardsonian Romanesque Rococo Roman architecture Romanesque architecture Romanesque Revival architecture Russian architecture Saltbox Second Empire Sicilian Baroque Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture Spanish Colonial Style architecture Stalinist architecture Streamline Moderne Sudano-Sahelian Synagogue architecture Tudor Style architecture Tudorbethan architecture Vastu Vernacular architecture Volkshalle

See also

• Australian Architectural Styles

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