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International style The Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, Germany (1927) Person   Richard Neutra
The International style was a major architectural style of the 1920s and 1930s. The term usually refers to the buildings and architects of the formative decades of Modernism, before World War II. The term had its origin from the name of a book by...
Rudolf Schindler
Le Corbusier
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Modern architecture Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, a well known example of modern architecture   Beinecke Library Richard Neutra
Modern architecture, is a term given to a number of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of ornament. The style was conceived early in the 20th century. Modern architecture was...
Cliffhanger Villa Raphael Soriano
Pierre Koenig
Rudolf Schindler
Louis Kahn
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Mid-century modern     Chemosphere Raphael Soriano
Mid-Century modern is an architectural, interior and product design form that generally describes pre- and post- second world war developments in modern design, architecture, and urban development from roughly 1933 to 1965. Mid-century architecture...
Rudolf Schindler
Richard Neutra
Louis Kahn
Alvar Aalto
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Art Nouveau Casa dels paraigües a les Rambles de Barcelona Art period/movement Jubilee Synagogue Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Art Nouveau (, anglicised ) (French for 'new art'), also known as Jugendstil (German for 'youth style'), is an international movement and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that peaked in popularity at the turn...
Hall of Graduate Studies Victor Horta
Antoni Gaudí
Bauhaus Restored workshop block of the Dessau Bauhaus (2003) Art period/movement   Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
"House of Building" or "Building School") is the common term for the , a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. The Bauhaus...
Employer Walter Gropius
Educational Institution Hannes Meyer
Organic architecture Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright   Residence for Florence and William Tsui Frank Lloyd Wright
Organic architecture is a philosophy of architecture which promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world through design approaches so sympathetic and well integrated with its site that buildings, furnishings, and surroundings...
Antoni Gaudí
Louis Sullivan
Gustav Stickley
Bruno Zevi
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Postmodernism   Art period/movement   Frank Gehry
Postmodernism literally means 'after the modern'. It is used in critical theory to refer to a point of departure for works of literature, drama, architecture, and design, as well as in marketing and business and the interpretation of history, law...
Film subject Robert A. M. Stern
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Deconstructivism Royal Ontario Museum     Frank Gehry
Deconstructivism in architecture, also called deconstruction, is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s. It is characterized by ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure's surface or skin...
Renaissance architecture   Palazzo Venezia Leonardo da Vinci
Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, in which there was a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought...
Palazzo Farnese, Rome Filippo Brunelleschi
Sistine Chapel Pirro Ligorio
Villa d'Este
North Philadelphia station
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Modern Traditionalist       Robert A. M. Stern  
Beaux-Arts architecture Palais Garnier is a cornerpiece of Beaux-Arts architecture characterized by Émile Zola as "the opulent bastard of all styles"   Alberta Legislative Building Charles Follen McKim
Beaux Arts architecture denotes the academic classical architectural style that was taught at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. The style "Beaux Arts" is above all the cumulative product of two and a half centuries of instruction under the...
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House Stanford White
American Academy in Rome William Rutherford Mead
Boston Public Library William W. Bosworth
Brooklyn Museum Daniel Burnham
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Futurism       Eero Saarinen  
Googie architecture The Space Needle, built for Seattle's World's Fair, 1962     Wayne McAllister
Googie, also known as populuxe or doo-wop, is a subdivision of futurist architecture, influenced by car culture and the Space Age and Atomic Age, originating from Southern California in the late 1940s and continuing approximately into the mid-1960s....
John Lautner
Arts and Crafts movement Artichoke wallpaper Morris and Co J H Dearle Art period/movement Hall of Graduate Studies Bernard Maybeck
The Arts and Crafts Movement was a British and American aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century. Inspired by the writings of John Ruskin and a romantic idealization of the craftsman...
Ernest Coxhead
French Renaissance architecture French Renaissance: Château de Chambord(1519-1539).   Silliman College James Francis Dunn
French Renaissance architecture is the style of architecture which was imported from Italy during the early 16th century and developed in the light of local architectural traditions. During the early years of the 16th century the French were...
Contemporary architecture M-T4     Santiago Calatrava
Contemporary architecture is the architecture being made at the present time. It also includes that of the last few decades, from the 1980s to the present.
Tudor style architecture King's College Chapel (partially obscured by the Gibbs' Building), seen from The Backs   Old Dorm Block Henry Holland
The Tudor style in architecture is the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, for conservative college patrons. It followed the Perpendicular style and, although superseded by Elizabethan...
Eliot Hall
Ladd
Abington
Kerr
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Neoclassicism Art period/movement   Henry Holland
Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and visual art, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw upon Western classical art and culture ...
Federal       James Gandon  
Desert Modernism       Albert Frey  
Richard Neutra
John Lautner
American Craftsman Craftsman-style bungalow in San Diego, California     Julia Morgan
The American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, interior design, and decorative art style popular from the last years of the 19th century through the early years of the 20th century. As...
Service-oriented architecture Elements of SOA, by Dirk Krafzig, Karl Banke, and Dirk Slama. Enterprise SOA. Prentice Hall, 2005      
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a methodology for systems development and integration where functionality is grouped around business process and packaged as interoperable ''services''. SOA also describes IT infrastructure which allows...
Art Deco The Art Deco spire of the Chrysler Building in New York, built 1928–1930 Art period/movement London Forum  
Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film....
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Mock Baronial        
The Mock Baronial style of architecture was one typical of Scottish stately homes of the Victorian era and the turn of the twentieth century. Typical features included castle-like "mock" turrets and ramparts, giving the owners the feeling of owning...
Mission Revival Style architecture Exterior Corridor at San Fernando Rey de Espana      
The Mission Revival Style was an architectural movement that began in the late 19th Century and drew inspiration from the early Spanish missions in California. The movement enjoyed its greatest popularity between 1890 and 1915, though numerous...
Georgian Dublin      
Georgian Dublin is a phrase used in the History of Dublin that has two interwoven meanings, Though strictly speaking, Georgian architecture could only exist during the reigns of the four Georges, it had its antecedents prior to 1714 and its style...
Brutalist architecture Unite d'Habitation, Marseille   33 Thomas Street Ernest Born
The term Brutalist Architecture originates from the French béton brut, or "raw concrete", a term used by Le Corbusier to describe his choice of material. The Brutalist style of architectural spawned from the modernist architectural movement and...
50 Queen Anne's Gate
Balfron Tower
Barbican Arts Centre
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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Humane Modernism       Hidalgo Moya  
Philip Powell
Khmer architectural style     Angkor Wat    
Moorish Revival Arc de Triomf, Barcelona, 1888   Jubilee Synagogue  
Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural style that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of the Romanticist fascination with all things oriental. It reached the height of its popularity...
Eldridge Street Synagogue
Scroll and Key
Central Synagogue
Congregation Rodeph Shalom
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