Architectural Styles Signature Elements Egyptian – Lotus, Papyrus, Palm Capitals Neo-Babylonian – Heraldic Animal Figures Assyrian – Chiseled Alabaster Slab, Crenellation Greek – Doric, Ionic, Corinthian Order, Trabeated System Roman – Arch, Vault, Dome, Composite And Tuscan Orders Early Christian – Iconostasis Byzantine – Pendentive Domes Saracenic – Horseshoe Arch, Muqarnas, Mocarabe, Minaret Romanesque – West Towers, Apse, Barrel Vault, Buttresses, Follies Early Gothic – Plate Tracery, Pointed Arch, Rib Vault, Flying Buttresses, Sexpartite Vault, 4-Sided Bay High Gothic – Quadripartite Vault, Bar Tracery, 3Sided Bay, Rose Window Late Gothic – Complex Vaults, Lanterns, Ogee Arch Seculat Gothic – Fingerbread Decoration Carpenter Gothic – Woordworking Tools And Machinery Early Renaissance – Linear Perspective, Chiaroscuro High Renaissance – Undulating Façade, Solid And Voids, Unconventional Use Of Classical Elements Baroque – Sculptural Use Of Neoclassical Orders Italian Baroque – Ovals, Curving Façade German Baroque – Onion Dome Spanish Baroque – Churriueresque French Baroque – Mansard Roof English Baroque – Exaggerated Keystones Rococo – Shellword, Foliage Ornaments, Gesamtkunstwek, Gesamtkunstwek, Fanciful Forms Palladianism – Unity Of The Whole Classicla Revival – Styles Of Greeks And Romans Empire Style – Corinthian Order Beaux Arts – Imbricated/High Facades, Eclectic Elements Arts & Crafts – Indigenous Materials, Picturesque New Objectivity – Steel, Glass, Concrete Functionalism – Techno-Fetishism Techno-Fetishism
Totalitarian Reactions – Bombqwtic Reactions Chicago School – Commercial Style, Rectilinear Facades Stick Style – External Board Frames High-Tech (Structural Expressionism) – Technophiilia, Industrial Aesthetic Regionalism – Inventive Forms Post Modernism – Veneerism, Return Of Simple Ornamentations Deconstructivism – Fragmentation Eco-Architecture – Green Roof, Innovative Technology Expressive Rationalism – Bigness, Iconic, Integrated Ornaments Tudor – 4-Centered Arch Neoclassicism – 5 Classical Orders And Motifs Plateresque – Chandelier, Festoons Parthian – Classical With Indigenous Features De Stijl – Primary Colors, Asymmetrical Facades Mixtec – Fretworks Friezes Toltec – Colossal Basalt Telemones Rundbogenstil – Eclectic Round Arches Vernacular Style – Commonest Building Technique Locally Shinto – Chigi And Katsuogi Traditional Chinese – Dou-Gon, Foo Dogs Traditional Thai – Roof Bargeboards (Chofa) Metabolism – Modulat System Art Nouveau – Organic Forms Art Deco (Streamline) – Geometric Forms International International Style – Glass Curtain Walls, Pilotis, Untextured, White, Steel, Concrete
