TYPES OF ARCHITECTURAL

STYLES
1) Ancient Greek architecture
 The architecture of Ancient Greece is the architecture produced by the Greek-speaking
people (Hellenic people) whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland and
Peloponnesus, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Asia Minor and Italy for a period
from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural
works dating from around 600 BC
 Ancient Greek architecture is best known from its temples, many of which are found
throughout the region, mostly as ruins but many substantially intact.
2) Ancient Roman architecture
 Ancient Roman architecture used the arch and dome to create a new
architectural style.
 The Roman Architectural Revolution, also known as the Concrete Revolution,
was the widespread use in Roman architecture of the previously little-used
architectural forms of the arch, vault, and dome. For the first time in history,
their potential was fully exploited in the construction of a wide range of civil
engineering structures, public buildings, and military facilities. These
included amphitheatres, aqueducts, baths, bridges, circuses, dams, domes,
harbours, and temples.
3) Vernacular architecture

 Vernacular architecture is a category of architecture based on local needs,

construction materials and reflecting local traditions.
 The vernacular architecture is not to be confused with so called “traditional”
architecture, though there are links between the two. Traditional
architecture also includes buildings which bear elements of polite design:
temples
4) Islamic architecture

 The principal Islamic architectural types are: the Mosque, the Tomb, the
Palace and the Fort.
 Domes and Minarets are the dominating architectural elements.
5) Gothic architecture

 Gothic architecture is the architecture of the late medieval period,

characterized by use of the pointed arch. Other features common to Gothic
architecture are the rib vault, buttresses, including flying buttresses; large
windows which are often grouped, or have tracery; rose windows, towers,
spires and pinnacles; and ornate façades.
 Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high
and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was
succeeded by Renaissance architecture.
6) Baroque architecture

 Baroque architecture is the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late
16th-century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance
architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to
express the triumph of the Catholic Church and the absolutist state.
 Distinctive features of Baroque architecture can include:
• In churches, broader naves and sometimes given oval forms
• Fragmentary or deliberately incomplete architectural elements
• dramatic use of light; either strong light-and-shade contrasts (chiaroscuro
effects) as at the church of Weltenburg Abbey, or uniform lighting by means
of several windows (e.g. church of Weingarten Abbey)
• opulent use of colour and ornaments (putti or figures made of wood (often
gilded), plaster or stucco, marble or faux finishing)
7) Neoclassical architecture

 Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the

neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century. In its purest form
it is a style principally derived from the architecture of Classical antiquity,
the Vitruvian principles and the architecture of the Italian architect Andrea
Palladio.
 In form, Neoclassical architecture emphasizes the wall rather than
chiaroscuro and maintains separate identities to each of its parts.
8) Postmodern architecture

 Postmodern architecture began as an international style the first examples of

which are generally cited as being from the 1950s, but did not become a
movement until the late 1970s[1] and continues to influence presentday
architecture.
 The functional and formalized shapes and spaces of the modernist style are
replaced by diverse aesthetics: styles collide, form is adopted for its own
sake, and new ways of viewing familiar styles and space abound.
9) Modern architecture

 Modern architecture or modernist architecture is a term applied to an

overarching movement, with its exact definition and scope varying widely.The
term is often applied to modernist movements at the turn of the 20th
century, with efforts to reconcile the principles underlying architectural
design with rapid technological advancement and the modernization of
society.
 Notable architects important to the history and development of the modernist
movement include Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius,
Erich Mendelsohn, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Gerrit Rietveld, Bruno
Taut, Arne Jacobsen, Oscar Niemeyer and Alvar Aalto.