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, this is not a holistic way of understanding architectural works because of the emphasis on the details of 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 Gothic architecture, for instance, would include all aspects of the cultural context that went into the design and construction of these structures.

Architectural style is a way of classifying architecture that gives emphasis to characteristic features of design, leading to a terminology such as Gothic "style". This could then be applied to buildings 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 Craftsman American Empire (style) Archigram Art Deco List of Art Deco architecture Art Nouveau Australian architectural styles Baroque architecture List of 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 Architecture of Ancient Greece Roman architecture Colonial Revival architecture Constructivism Deconstructivism Egyptian Revival architecture Elizabethan architecture Empire (style) Expressionist architecture Federal architecture Florida cracker architecture Futurist architecture Georgian architecture Googie architecture Gothic architecture Early English Period Decorated Period Perpendicular Period Brick Gothic Gothic Revival architecture List of Gothic Revival architecture Greek architecture Greek Revival architecture Indo-Saracenic Indian Architecture International style (architecture) Italianate Jacobethan Japanese architecture Jugendstil Manueline Mediterranean Revival Style architecture

Memphis Group Metabolist Movement Mid-century modern Mission Revival Style architecture Modern architecture Modernisme Moroccan style Mudéjar architecture National Park Service Rustic Nazi architecture Neo-Byzantine architecture Neo-Grec Neo-gothic architecture Neoclassical architecture Neoclassicism Neo-Mudéjar architecture New Old House New Towns Norman architecture Pagoda Palladian architecture Persian (Iranian) architecture Postmodern architecture Prairie Houses Queen Anne Style architecture Queenslander (architecture) Ranch house Regency architecture Religious architecture Cathedral architecture Synagogue architecture Retro-futurism Richardsonian Romanesque Rococo Roman architecture Romanesque architecture Romanesque Revival architecture Romantic Classicism Russian architecture Second Empire Shingle Style Sicilian Baroque Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture Spanish Colonial Style architecture Stalinist architecture Stick Style Streamline Moderne Sudano-Sahelian Synagogue architecture Tudor Style architecture Tudorbethan architecture Usonian Vancouver Special Vastu Vernacular architecture Victorian architecture Volkshalle

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• List of house styles