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Architectural style

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.

• 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)
• City Beautiful movement
• Classical architecture
  • Greek architecture
  • Roman architecture
• Colonial Revival architecture
• Deconstructivism
• Egyptian Revival architecture
• Elizabethan architecture
• Empire (style)
• Expressionist Style
• Federal architecture
• Georgian architecture
• Googie architecture
• Gothic architecture
  • Early English (architecture)
  • Decorated Gothic
  • Perpendicular (architecture)
• Gothic Revival architecture
• Greek architecture
• Greek Revival architecture
• Ideological architecture
  • Nazi architecture
    • Volkshalle
  • Stalinist architecture
• Indo-Saracenic
• International style (architecture)
• Italianate
• Jacobethan
• Jakriborg
• 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
• 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

Architectural style by country or region.

Architectural style - See Also

• Australian Architectural Styles

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