Timeline of architectural styles

This timeline shows the periods of various architectural styles in a graphical fashion.

6000 BC–present

8000 years – the last 1000 years is expanded in the timeline below

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at:550 #blank line
#at:800 text:"Carolingian" #france and northern europe
from:711 till:1492 text:"Moorish" shift: color:gris anchor:from #Spain, Portugal, North Africa
from:330 till:1520 text:"Byzantine" shift: color:gris anchor:from
from:-753 till:663 text:"Roman" shift: color:gris anchor:from
from:-776 till:265 text:"Ancient Greek" shift: color:gris anchor:from
from:-1920 till:-630 text:"Assyrian" shift: color:gris anchor:from
from:-2000 till:1519 text:"Mesoamerican" shift: color:gris anchor:from
from:-3200 till:373 text:"Ancient Egyptian" shift: color:gris anchor:from
from:-4500 till:-2000 text:"Sumerian" shift: color:gris anchor:from
from:-6000 till:-2800 text:"Neolithic" shift: color:gris anchor:from
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1000AD—present

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#at:2010 #blank line
#at:2006 text:"New Classical"
#at:2005 text:"Sustainable"
#at:2003 text:"Blobitecture"
#at:1982 text:"Deconstructivism" #1982–present
#at:1981 text:"Memphis Group" #1981–1988
#at:1971 text:"High-tech #1971–present
from:1968 till:2007 text:"Structural Expressionism" shift: color:gris anchor:from
#at:1959 text:"Metabolist Movement" #1959 Japan
#at:1952 text:"Critical regionalism" #1952 global
from:1950 till:2007 text:"Postmodernism" shift: color:gris anchor:from
#at:1950 text:"Brutalism" #1950s–1970s
#at:1950 text:"Googie" #1950s America
#at:1950 text:"Mid-century modern" #1950s California, etc.
#at:1936 text:"Usonian" #1936–1940s USA
#at:1936 text:"Nazi architecture" #1936–1945 Germany
#at:1933 text:"Stalinist" #1933–1955
#at:1930 text:"Streamline Moderne" #1930–1937
from:1927 till:1976 text:"International style" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1927–1970s
#at:1925 text:"Art Deco" #1925–1940s
#at:1925 text:"Fascist architecture" #1925–1936 Italy
#at:1922 text:"Egyptian Revival" #1922→Art Deco
#at:1920 text:"Mediterranean Revival" #1920s–1930s America
from:1919 till:1938 text:"Bauhaus" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1919–1930s
#at:1915 text:"Spanish Colonial Revival" #1915 and 1931
#at:1914 text:"Constructivism" #1914–1920
from:1914 till:1963 text:"Modernism" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1914–1960
#at:1912 text:"Amsterdam School" #1912–1924
#at:1910 text:"Expressionism" #1910–ca. 1924
#from:1910 till:1930 text:"Nordic Classicism" shift: color:gris anchor:from
#at:1909 text:"Futurism" #1909 Europe
#at:1905 text:"Heliopolis style" #1905 Egypt
#at:1902 text:"National Romantic style" #1902 Scandinavia
#at:1901 text:"Edwardian Baroque" #1901 United Kingdom
#at:1900 text:"Prairie Style" #1900 and 1917 USA
#at:1898 text:"Garden city movement" #1898–1968 United Kingdom
#at:1898 text:"Pueblo Style #1898-1990s USA
#at:1894 text:"Mission revival style" #1894–1936
#at:1890 text:"Colonial Revival" #1890s–today
#at:1890 text:"City Beautiful movement" #1890–1900s USA
#from:1890 till:1938 text:"American Craftsman" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1890s–1930 New England
#at:1888 text:"Art Nouveau" #1895-1926
#at:1888 text:"Jugendstil" #1888 to 1911 German Art Nouveau
#at:1888 text:"Modernisme" #1888 to 1911 Catalonian Art Nouveau
#from:1880 till:1914 text:"American Renaissance" shift: color:gris anchor:from #ca 1880 – 1914
#at:1880 text:"Chicago school" #1880s and 1890s
#at:1880 text:"Richardsonian Romanesque" #1880s
#from:1879 till:1905 text:"Shingle Style" shift: color:gris anchor:from #or stick style 1879–1905 New England
#at:1872 text:"National Park Service Rustic" shift: #1872–1916 USA
from:1870 till:1914 text:"Queen Anne Style" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1870–1910s UK & USA
#at:1865 text:"Second Empire" #1865 and 1880
#at:1863 text:"Beaux-Arts"
#at:1860 text:"Arts and Crafts movement"
#from:1850 till:1900 text:"Swiss chalet style" shift: color:gris anchor:from #c.1850 and c.1900 switzerland, norway, US
#at:1848 text:"Neo-Grec" #1848 – 1865
#at:1842 text:"Greek revival"
#at:1840 text:"Egyptian revival" #1840s–1850s
#at:1840 text:"Queenslander" #1840s–1960s Australia
from:1840 till:1900 text:"Romanesque revival" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1840–1900 USA
#at:1838 text:"Jacobethan" shift: #1838
from:1837 till:1901 text:"Victorian" shift: color:gris anchor:from
#at:1835 text:"Tudorbethan" shift: color:gris anchor:from
#at:1815 text:"Biedermeier" #1815–1848
#at:1812 text:"Moorish Revival #1812-c.1920 Europe and USA
#at:1810 text:"American Empire "
#at:1810 text:"Regency architecture"
#at:1809 text:"Egyptian revival" #1809–1820s
#at:1804 text:"Empire " #1804 to 1814, 1870 revival
#at:1802 text:"Italianate"
from:1780 till:1830 text:"Federal architecture" shift: color:gris anchor:from
from:1773 till:1850 text:"Pombaline style" shift: color:gris anchor:from #Portugal
#at:1770 text:"Adam style" #1770 United Kingdom
from:1760 till:1880 text:"Gothic revival" color:gris anchor:from #1760s–1880s
from:1750 till:1921 text:"Neoclassical" shift: color:gris anchor:from
#at:1750 #blank line
#at:1750 text:"Neoclassical"
from:1720 till:1840 text:"Georgian" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1720—
from:1697 till:1730 text:"Russian Baroque" shift: color: gris anchor:from #c.1620-c.1720
#at:1693 text:"Sicilian Baroque" #1693 earthquake—c.1745 aka
#at:1666 text:"English Baroque" #Great Fire & Treaty of Utrecht
#at:1650 text:"Rococo" #1659—
from:1650 till:1697 text:"Late Muscovite" shift: color: gris anchor:from #c.1620-c.1720
from:1616 till:1690 text:"Palladianism" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1616–1680
#at:1603 text:"Jacobean" # 1603 – 1625
from:1600 till:1745 text:"Baroque" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1600—
#at:1533 text:"Elizabethan" #
from:1530 till:1630 text:"Middle Muscovite" shift: color:gris anchor:from #c.1330-c.1630
from:1527 till:1600 text:"Mannerism" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1527–1600
#at:1520 text:"Spanish Colonial style" #1520s–c.1550*
from:1500 till:1525 text:"High Renaissance" shift: color: gris anchor:from
from:1490 till:1550 text:"Manueline" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1490–1550
from:1485 till:1603 text:"Tudor" shift: color: gris anchor:from #1485–1603
from:1400 till:1600 text:"Renaissance" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1400–1600
from:1350 till:1550 text:"Sondergotik" shift: color: gris anchor:from #1350–1550
#at:1350 text:"Perpendicular Period" #c.1350–c.1550
#at:1350 text:"Brick Gothic" #c.1350–c.1400
#at:1290 text:"Decorated Period" #c.1290–c.1350
from:1230 till:1530 text:"Early Muscovite Period" shift: color:gris anchor:from #c.1230-c.1530
#at:1190 text:"Early English Period" #1190–1250
from:1190 till: 1546 text:"Gothic" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1200—1400
from:1126 till:1599 text:"Mudéjar" shift: color: gris anchor:from #1120–1599
from:1074 till:1250 text:"Norman" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1074–1250
from:1050 till:1170 text:"Romanesque" shift: color: gris anchor:from #1050–1170
from:1000 till:1250 text:"Medieval Rus'" shift: color:gris anchor:from #c.1000-c.1250
from:1000 till:1300 text:"Hoysala" shift: color: gris anchor:from #c.1000-c.1300

1900–present

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at:2010 #blank line
from:2006 till:2020 text:"New Classical" shift: color:gris anchor:from
from:2005 till:2020 text:"Sustainable" shift: color:gris anchor:from
from:2003 till:2020 text:"Blobitecture" shift: color:gris anchor:from
from:2000 till:2020 text:"Contemporary" shift: color:gris anchor:from #2000–present Global
from:1984 till:2017 text:"Neo-futurism" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1984–2017
from:1982 till:2008 text:"Deconstructivism" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1982–2008
from:1981 till:1989 text:"Memphis Group" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1981–1988
from:1970 till:1981 text:"Arcology" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1970–1980s
from:1961 till:2013 text:"High-tech " shift: color:gris anchor:from #1961–2013
from:1960 till:1989 text:"Shed style" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1960s–1980s
from:1960 till:2007 text:"Postmodernism" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1960-2000s International
from:1959 till:1969 text:"Metabolist Movement" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1959 Japan
from:1952 till:1962 text:"Critical regionalism" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1952 global
from:1950 till:1979 text:"Brutalism" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1950s–1970s
from:1950 till:1959 text:"Googie" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1950s America
from:1950 till:1959 text:"Mid-century modern" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1950s California, etc.
from:1936 till:1949 text:"Usonian" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1936–1940s USA
from:1936 till:1945 text:"Nazi architecture" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1936–1945 Germany
from:1933 till:1955 text:"Stalinist" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1933–1955
from:1930 till:1937 text:"Streamline Moderne" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1930–1937
from:1927 till:1979 text:"International style" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1927–1970s
from:1925 till:1949 text:"Art Deco" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1925–1940s
from:1925 till:1945 text:"Fascist architecture" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1925–1945 Italy
from:1922 till:1927 text:"Egyptian Revival" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1922→1927
from:1920 till:1939 text:"Mediterranean Revival" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1920s–1930s America
from:1919 till:1938 text:"Bauhaus" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1919–1930s
from:1915 till:1931 text:"Spanish Colonial Revival" color:gris anchor:from #1915 - 1931
from:1919 till:1932 text:"Constructivism" shift: color:gris anchor:from
from:1914 till:1963 text:"Modernism" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1914–1960
from:1912 till:1924 text:"Amsterdam School" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1912–1924
from:1910 till:1924 text:"Expressionism" color:gris anchor:from #1910–ca. 1924
from:1910 till:1930 text:"Nordic Classicism" shift: color:gris anchor:from
from:1909 till:1934 text:"Futurism" color:gris anchor:from #1909-1934 Europe
from:1905 till:1910 text:"Heliopolis style" color:gris anchor:from #1905-1910 Egypt
from:1902 till:1916 text:"National Romantic style" color:gris anchor:from #1902-1916 Scandinavia
from:1901 till: 1910 text:"Edwardian Baroque" color:gris anchor:from #1901-1910 United Kingdom
from:1900 till:1917 text:"Prairie Style" color:gris anchor:from #1900–1917 USA
at:1900 #blank line

at:1898 text:"Garden city movement" #1898–1968 United Kingdom
at:1898 text:"Pueblo style #1898-1990s USA
at:1894 text:"Mission revival style" #1894–1936
at:1890 text:"Colonial Revival" #1890s–today
at:1890 text:"City Beautiful movement" #1890–1900s USA
from:1890 till:1938 text:"American Craftsman" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1890s–1930 New England
at:1888 text:"Art Nouveau" #1895-1926
at:1888 text:"Jungenstil" #1888 to 1911 German Art Nouveau
at:1888 text:"Modernisme" #1888 to 1911 Catalonian Art Nouveau
from:1880 till:1914 text:"American Renaissance" shift: color:gris anchor:from #ca 1880 – 1914
at:1880 text:"Chicago school" #1880s and 1890s
at:1880 text:"Richardsonian Romanesque" #1880s
from:1879 till:1905 text:"Shingle Style" shift: color:gris anchor:from #or stick style 1879–1905 New England
at:1872 text:"National Park Service Rustic" shift: #1872–1916 USA
from:1870 till:1914 text:"Queen Anne Style" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1870–1910s UK & USA
at:1865 text:"Second Empire" #1865 and 1880
at:1863 text:"Beaux-Arts"
at:1860 text:"Arts and Crafts movement"
from:1850 till:1900 text:"Swiss chalet style" shift: color:gris anchor:from #c.1850 and c.1900 switzerland, norway, US
at:1848 text:"Neo-Grec" #1848 – 1865
at:1842 text:"Greek revival"
at:1840 text:"Egyptian revival" #1840s–1850s
at:1840 text:"Queenslander" #1840s–1960s Australia
from:1840 till:1900 text:"Romanesque revival" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1840–1900 USA
at:1838 text:"Jacobethan" shift: #1838
from:1837 till:1901 text:"Victorian" shift: color:gris anchor:from
at:1835 text:"Tudorbethan" shift:"
at:1810 text:"Regency architecture"
at:1809 text:"Egyptian revival" #1809–1820s
at:1804 text:"Empire " #1804 to 1814, 1870 revival
at:1802 text:"Italianate"
from:1780 till:1830 text:"Federal architecture" shift: color:gris anchor:from
from:1773 till:1850 text:"Pombaline style" shift: color:gris anchor:from #Portugal
at:1770 text:"Adam style" #1770 United Kingdom
at:1760 text:"Gothic revival" #1760s–1840s
from:1750 till:1921 text:"Neoclassical" shift: color:gris anchor:from #1760-
at:1720 text:"Georgian" #1720—
at:1693 text:"Sicilian Baroque" #1693 earthquake—c.1745 aka
at:1666 text:"English Baroque" #Great Fire & Treaty of Utrecht
at:1650 text:"Rococo" #1659—
at:1616 text:"Palladianism" #1616–1680
at:1600 text:"Baroque" #1600—
at:1533 text:"Elizabethan" #
at:1527 text:"Mannerism" #1527–1600
at:1520 text:"Spanish Colonial style" #1520s–c.1550*Manueline 1495 to 1521
at:1485 text:"Tudor" #1485–1603
at:1400 text:"Renaissance" #1400–1600
at:1350 text:"Brick Gothic" #c.1350–c.1400
at:1350 text:"Perpendicular Period" #c.1350–c.1550
at:1290 text:"Decorated Period" #c.1290–c.1350
at:1190 text:"Early English Period" #1190–1250
at:1190 text:"Gothic architecture" #1200—1400
*Neolithic architecture 10,000 BC-3000 BC
*Ancient Egyptian architecture 3000 BC–373 AD
*Sumerian architecture 5300 BC–2000 BC
*Classical architecture 600 BC-323 AD
**Ancient Greek architecture 776 BC-265 BC
**Roman architecture 753 BC–663 AD
*Byzantine architecture 527 -1520
*Romanesque architecture 1050–1170
*Norman architecture 1074–1250

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