Introduction
Classical
Early Christian
Renaissance and Mannerism
- Italian Baroque
- German and Eastern European Baroque
- Spanish and Latin American Baroque
- French Baroque
- English Baroque
- Rococo
- Palladianism
- Classical Revival
- Greek Revival
- Empire Style
- Picturesque
- Sublime
Modernism
- Chicago School
- Expressionism
- New Objectivity
- International Style
- Functionalism
- Constructivism
- Totalitarian Reactions
- Essentialism
- Brutalism
- Metabolism
- High-Tech
After Modernism
- Regionalism
- Postmodernism
- Deconstructivism
- Eco-architecture
- Expressive Rationalism
- Conextualism
Postscript
Further reading
Glossary
Index
Picture credits
Acknowledgements
Glossary
- acanthus
- acroteria
- aedicule
- After Modernism
- aisle
- altar
- altarpiece
- ambulatory
- Ancient Greek
- Ancient Roman
- apse
- arabesque
- arcade
- arched brace
- architrave
- Art Deco
- Art Nouveau
- Arts and Crafts
- ashlar
- attic
- bailey
- balconette
- baldacchino
- ball flower
- baluster
- balustrade
- bar tracery
- barbican
- Baroque and Rococo
- barrel vault
- bas relief
- base
- basement
- base-structure
- basilica
- basket capital
- bastion
- bay window
- Beaux-Arts
- blind arch
- brise-soleil
- broken pediment
- Brutalism
- buttress
- Byzantine
- campanile
- canopy
- cantilever
- capital
- capriccio
- caryatid
- Castle
- cella
- cenotaph
- chancel
- chevron
- chhatri
- Chicago School
- Chinoiserie
- choir
- Classical
- Classical orders
- Classical Revival
- clerestory
- coffering
- colonnade
- column
- composite order
- concave
- concentric
- Constructivism
- Contextualism
- convex
- coping
- corbel
- Corinthian order
- corner pavilion
- cornice
- corrugated
- crenellations
- crockets
- crossing
- cupola
- curtain wall
- cusp
- dagger
- Deconstructivisn
- diagonal rib
- diaper
- dome
- donjon
- Doric order
- drawbridge
- drum
- duct
- Early Christian
- Early Gothic
- Early Renaissance
- eave
- Eclecticism
- Eco-architecture
- elevator
- Empire Style
- English Baroque
- entablature
- entasis
- escalator
- Essentialism
- Expressionism
- Expressive Rationalism
- eye-catcher
- fan vault
- flat roof
- flute
- flying buttress
- foil
- forum
- French Baroque
- frieze
- frontispiece
- Functionalism
- gable
- gable roof
- gallery
- gatehouse
- geodesic dome
- German and Eastern European Baroque
- gesamtkunstwerk
- giant column
- giant order
- glass curtain wall
- Glossary
- Gothic and Medieval
- Gothic Revival
- Grand Tour
- great hall
- Greek cross plan
- Greek Doric order
- Greek Revival
- green roof
- groin vault
- grotesquery
- hammer beam
- hammer post
- hammer-beam roof
- haunch
- High Gothic
- High Renaissance
- High-Tech
- hippodrome
- horseshoe arch
- hyperbolic parabolic arch
- impost
- International Style
- Ionic order
- Italian Baroque
- jamb
- keep
- keystone
- lancet window
- lantern
- Late Gothic
- lierne vault
- lift
- light
- lime plaster
- lintel
- loggia
- machicolations
- Mannerism
- mansard roof
- medallion
- Metabolism
- metope
- mezzanine
- moat
- Modernism
- mosaic
- mouchette
- mullion
- muquarnas
- naos
- narthex
- nave
- Neoclassicism
- New Objectivity
- niche
- Northern Renaissance
- obelisk
- octastyle
- ogee arch
- onion dome
- open plan
- orangery
- oriel window
- Orientalism
- outer ward
- Palladian window
- Palladianism
- palmette
- panel
- parabolic vault
- pediment
- pendentive
- peripteral
- peristasis
- piano nobile
- Picturesque
- pier
- pilaster
- piloti
- pinnacle
- pitched roof
- plate tracery
- plinth
- portcullis
- portico
- post
- Postmodernism
- projecting window
- pronaos
- pseudodipteral
- pseudoperipteral
- quadripartite vault
- quoins
- raffle leaf
- railing
- recessed
- rectilinear
- Regionalism
- relief
- Renaissance and Mannerism
- render
- rib
- rib vault
- ribbon window
- rise
- Rococo
- roll
- Roman Doric order
- Romanesque
- roof garden
- roof terrace
- rose window
- round-headed window
- rustication
- sacristy
- salon
- sanctuary
- scroll
- Secular Gothic
- segmental pediment
- semicircular arch
- Serlian window
- sexpartite vault
- shaft
- sill
- sliding door
- Solomonic column
- space frame
- span
- spandrel
- Spanish and Latin American Baroque
- spire
- spolia
- springer
- string course
- stucco
- Sublime
- surround
- tesserae
- tierceron vault
- topiary
- Totalitarian Reactions
- tower
- trabeated
- tracery
- transepts
- transfer beam
- transom
- transverse rib
- triforium
- triglyph
- tripartite portal
- triumphal arch
- truss
- tunnel vault
- turret
- Tuscan order
- undulating
- Venetian Gothic
- Venetian window
- viaduct
- volute
- voussoir
- web
- zeitgeist
Source Citation
Hopkins, Owens. Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide. London, United Kingdom: Laurence King Publishing. 2014, 1st publishing, reprinted in 2022.
Key Facts
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