aRCHITECTURAL STYLES

( in western context)

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ROMAN
GREEK
WEST
ASIAN
EGYPTIAN
NEOLITHI
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Style

LOCATION &
REASON

CHARACTERS

EXAMPLES

NEOLITHI Middle east ,

central Asia
C

Stone , wattle & daub as

building material .

Stone
henges ,
megaliths ,
cause
ways , ditch
rings.

Egyptian

Near Nile river .

Belief of eternal
life.

Mud bricks and stone as

material. rarely wood.
Battered wall , Hieroglyphs,
stone columns

Pyramids ,
Mastabas ,
temples

West asia

Mesopotomia
Near Tigris and
Euphrates ,
Urban cities
development , burial
habit

Mostly brick
large stone-relief sculptures
and immense gate guardian
figures of animal

Sumerians
ziggurats
Persians
palaces of
Persepolis

Emerged as people
changed from living
as Nomadic 'Hunter
Gatherers' to
permanently settling
in specific areas.

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Stone henges

Ziggurat

Khorsabad, the fortified city and palace

of Sargon II
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Style

LOCATION &
REASON

FEATURES

EXAMPLES

Greek

Greece Athens
,Acropolis

Rectangular buildings & 3

types of columns Doric ,
Ionic & Corinthian
Lime stones , marble ,
terracotta
Temples surrounded by
columns
Friezes , triglyphs

Parthenon ,
Epidaurus
theater

Roman

Central part
of Italy Rome

Invented Concrete ,
Used arches , coffered
ceiling.

Pantheon ,
Baths of
Caracalla,
Aqueduct, Basilica

Byzantine

Constantinople
After the fall
of roman
empire & the
rise of

semi-circular dome built,

cross church plan ,
classical order,
pendentives

Hagia Sophia,
Istanbul
St. Mark's,
Italy,

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Greek orders
St Marks Basilica, Venice

Pantheon , ROME

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Hagio Sophia , Constantinople

From 1000 to 1850 A.D

Neoclassi
Rococo
cal
Baroque
Gothic
Romanes
que
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Romana
sque

Europe &
Britain

Barrel vault ,stone with thick

mortar , piers , salvaged
columns , buttresses .

Pisa Cathedral,
Italy .

Renais
- sance

From Florence
to Italy ,France
, Germany ,
England
From the
constant revival
of Greek and
roman
architecture.

Emphasis
onsymmetry,proportion,
geometry and the regularity
of parts

St Peter's
Basilica, Rome.

Baroque

Spain , Italy ,
Baroque lavished buildings with
France , Belgium complex shapes, extravagant
, Rome
ornaments, opulent paintings,
and bold contrasts.

Saint Paul's
Cathedral,
bySir
Christopher
Wren,

rocco

France
Known as late
baroque

Hermitage
Winter Palace
in St.

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sweeping curves

Royal Chateau de Chambord

Loire Valley, France
Romanesque

Hermitage Winter Palace in

St. Petesburg Rococo
architecture

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Pisa Cathedral, Italy .

ST.Pauls cathedral ,
London

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Contemporary architecture
Structural
Greek
Radical

Neoclassi
cal

Classical

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Primary
shapes

Archaeologic
Excavatio
al
n sites

Gothic
revival
Roman

Replicatio
n of old
buildings

Gothic
churche
s

Contemporary architecture

Steel
18th to 19th
century
Industrial
revolution

concrete

Glass

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Paris exhibition Eiffel tower 1889

London exhibition Crystal palace
- 1851

CRYSTAL PALACE , LONDON

LONDON FIRE
1660.

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Contemporary architecture
Nature

Art
nouveau
BIOMIMETIC

Vernacula
r

ART DECO

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Arts &
crafts
movement

Eg - Antoni gaudi
casa batlo ,
Barcelona
Philip webb
- Red house,
London

ZIG ZAG
Pattern ,sun
motifs , stepped
patterns .

CHRYSLER
BUILDING,
New York

Contemporary architecture

Multi
storied
building

New social
order after
German
revolution

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Chicago
school
1885

Bauhaus school
1919

Chicago
building , U.S.A

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Contemporary architecture

Expressionism

Subjective
emotional
values
Einstein tower by
Erich Mendelssohn

Brutalism

Material behavior
Atlanta central
library , Marcel
Breuer

Futurism

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Speed & Antonio Sant'Elia

technology
Power station

Contemporary architecture

3d forms in 2d planes

Cubism

Cubist HouseNeklanova | Prague, Czech

abstract nonobjective
'constructions' with a
kinetic element

Conceiving building
as bits and pieces
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Constructivism
Collective Housing design by
Nikolai Ladovsky, 1920

School , London ZAHA

HADIDDeconstructivis
m

Contemporary architecture

organic, amoebashaped, bulging form

Blobism

Lars Spuybroek & Kas

Oosterhuis - water pavilion in
Netherland.
Depicting plants ,
animals & natural
forces

Biomimeti
c

LILYPAD: Floating City for Climate

Change Refugees Vincent
Callebaut
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BIBLIOGRAPHY :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_architectural_styles
Modern architecture a critical history by Kenneth Frampton
Modern architecture by William Curtis

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