Revivalism (architecture)
Typical historicist house: Gründerzeit building by Arwed Roßbach in Leipzig, Germany (built in 1892)
- See also: Revival architectural styles.
Revivalism in architecture is the use of visual styles that consciously echo the style of a previous architectural era.
Modern-day revival styles can be summarized within New Classical Architecture, and sometimes under the umbrella term traditional architecture.
List of architectural revivals
Neogothic Clock Tower at Palace of Westminster in London, by Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
Mixed movements
- Gründerzeit – German historicist architecture of the 2nd half of the 19th century, distinctive style mélange; later variations included, e.g., "Heimatstil"
- Historicism or Historism – mixed revivals that can include several older styles, combined with new elements
- Neo-Historism – revival of historicist architecture including several revival styles; emerged from Postmodern architecture in the late 1990s
- New Classical Architecture – an umbrella term for modern-day architecture following pre-modernist principles
- Traditionalist School – revival of different regional traditional styles
- Vernacular architecture – umbrella term for regional architecture traditions continuing through the eras, also used and cited in revival architecture
Western civilizations Revivalist architecture
- Preclassical Revival
- Mycenaean Revival architecture (revival of Mycenaean Greek architecture)
- Classical Revival
- Neoclassical architecture (revival of Classical architecture)
- Federal architecture
- Greek Revival architecture (revival of Ancient Greek architecture)
- Jeffersonian architecture
- Regency architecture
- Russian neoclassical revival
- Postclassical Revival
- Byzantine Revival architecture (revival of Byzantine architecture)
- Medieval Revival
- Romanesque Revival architecture (revival of Romanesque architecture)
- Gothic Revival architecture (revival of Gothic architecture)
- Carpenter Gothic
- Neo-Manueline (revival of Manueline)
- Scots Baronial Style architecture
- Russian Revival architecture (revival of Kievan Rus architecture)
Schwerin Palace, historical ducal seat of Mecklenburg, Germany – an example of pompous renaissance revival for representation purposes (built in 1857)
- Renaissance Revival
- Renaissance Revival architecture (revival of Renaissance architecture)
- Italianate architecture
- Palazzo style architecture – revival based on Italian Palazzo
- Mediterranean Revival architecture (revival of Italian Renaissance architecture)
- Palladian Revival architecture (revival of Palladian architecture)
- Châteauesque (revival of French Renaissance architecture)
- Spanish Revival architecture (revival of Spanish Renaissance architecture)
Opera, Paris (Palais Garnier) by Charles Garnier, 1861-1875
- Baroque Revival
- Baroque Revival architecture (revival of Baroque architecture)
- Dutch Revival architecture (revival of Dutch Baroque architecture)
- Spanish Revival architecture (revival of Spanish Baroque architecture)
- Edwardian Baroque architecture
- Stalinist baroque
- Queen Anne Style architecture
- Modern era Revivals
- Tudor Revival architecture (revival of Tudor Style architecture)
- Colonial Revival architecture (revival of American Colonial architecture)
- Cape Cod Revival (revival of Cape Cod)
- Dutch Colonial Revival architecture (revival of Dutch Colonial architecture)
- Georgian Revival architecture (revival of Georgian architecture)
- Mediterranean Revival architecture (revival of Italian Renaissance architecture and Spanish Baroque architecture)
- Spanish Colonial Revival architecture (revival of Spanish Colonial architecture and Churrigueresque style)
- Mission Revival Style architecture (revival of Architecture of the California Missions)
- Resort architecture (Bäderarchitektur, includes revival elements and adds new stylistic measures)
- Swiss chalet style
Non-Western civilizations Revivalist architecture
The following are largely Orientalist styles.
- Chinese architecture and other traditional East-Asian styles are revived and continued until today, such as Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai, Khmer and others
- Egyptian Revival architecture (revival of Ancient Egyptian architecture)
- Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture (revival of Indian architecture and Islamic architecture)
- Mayan Revival architecture (revival of Maya architecture)
- Moorish Revival architecture (revival of Moorish architecture)
- Pueblo Revival Style architecture (revival of Puebloan traditional architecture)
Notes
References
- Scott Trafton (2004), Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania, Duke University Press, ISBN 0-8223-3362-7. p. 142.
External links
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Media related to Historicist architecture at Wikimedia Commons
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