Periods in Architecture

Period with rapid industrialization that unleashed mass produced items like furniture and wallpaper (late 19th early 20th century)

• Art Deco

• Arts and Crafts

• Byzantine

• Modern

Period around 1925-1940 filled with sharp angles, zigzag shapes, and implied movement. Works were often referred to as Jazz Modern.

• Classical

• Renaissance

• Art Deco

• Arts and Crafts

Mid 14th -16th centuries period took inspiration from Tuscan, Corinthian, and Composite orders.

• Classic

• Gothic

• Renaissance

• Byzantine

Late 16th century to early 18th century period whereby palaces and churches displayed wealth with rich colors and surfaces.

• Baroque

• Byzantine

• Renaissance

• Modern

850 BCE-476 CE period where Greeks developed cities and urban grids to control movement of people.

• Romanesque

• Classical

• Mesoamerican

• Gothic

Period aligned around solar and astronomical features framed in towering temples (1800BCE-1521 CE)

• Mesoamerican

• Byzantine

• Classical

• Arts and Crafts

1970s to early 21st century period included stylistic hybrids and mixed forms from other periods.

• Modern

• Postmodernism

• Classical

• Art Deco

Before 3500 BCE, period where earliest societies formed gathering sites, created sunken spaces, and erected monuments.

• Ancient Egypt

• Prehistoric

• Classical

• Byzantine

1100-1450 period with cathedrals built with soaring interiors, flying buttresses, and stained glass.

• Neoclassicism

• Gothic

• Byzantine

• Prehistoric

Grand traveling tours led to opera house, library, and museum designs. (18th-19th centuries)

• Classic

• Gothic Revival

• Neoclassicism

• Gothic