Table of Contents
Introduction
Ancient and Classical
- Ancient Middle East
- Ancient Egypt
- Pre-Columbian
- Pre-Classical
- Ancient Greek
- Ancient Roman
- Early and Classical China
- Early and Classical Japan
- Early and Classical India
Medieval and Renaissance
- Early Christian and Byzantine
- Islamic
- Romanesque
- Gothic
- Medieval Fortifications
- Renaissance
- Mannerism
- Baroque and Rococo
- Palladianism
- Georgian
- Classical Revival
- Gothic Revival
- Exotic Revival
- Beaux Arts
- Arts and Crafts
- Art Nouveau
Modern and Contemporary
- Art Deco
- Expressionism
- Modernism
- Constructivism
- Brutalism
- Metabolism
- High-Tech
- Postmodern
- Deconstructivism
- Eco-Architecture
- Biomorphism
- Parametric
Elements
- Domes
- Columns
- Towers
- Arches and Arcades
- Doorways and Entrances
- Windows
- Pediments and Gables
- Roofs
- Vaulting
- Stairways
Glossary
Index
Glossary
- adytum
- adyton
- all’antica
- ambo
- apadana
- arch
- bad gir
- baldachin
- ballcourt
- Beaux-Arts
- berm
- boiserie
- brise-soleil
- buttress
- cella
- Charbagh
- chhatri
- Chicago window
- choiserie
- ciborium
- clerestory
- Coade stone
- Cor-ten
- Corinthian
- crenellated
- Doric
- exedra
- feng shui
- ferro cemento
- formwork
- gambrel
- gopura
- gunite
- High-Tech
- Ionic
- International Style
- iwan
- jaali
- jalousie windows
- keystone
- Lady Chapel
- loggia
- mansard roof
- mashrabiya
- mestizo
- metopes
- muqarnas
- naos
- narthex
- oculus
- oculi
- ogee arch
- opisthodomos
- pendentive
- peripteros
- piano nobile
- piloti
- pisé de terre
- pishtaq
- pronaos
- porte-cochere
- quadriga
- reinforced concrete
- Serlian window
- stack ventilation
- stupa
- synthronon
- talud-tablero
- tatami
- tempietto
- tholos
- timber framing
- trabeated
- triforium
- trumeau
- tympanum
- X-brace
- zenana
Source Citation
Fletcher, Margaret. Architectural styles: a visual guide. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2020.
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