major arch. advance proj..

PREHISTORIC TIMES

11,600 BCE

11,600 B.C to 3,500 B.C.
MAIN BUILDING: STONEHENGE

ANCIENT EGYPT

3050 BCE

3,050 B.C. TO 900 B.C.
THE PYRAMID OF KHAFRE

GREEK

436 BCE

700 T0 323 B.C.
DORIC COLUMNS

HELLENISTIC

275 BCE

323 to 146 B.C.
ROME BUILDING ELABORATE TEMPLES

ROMAN

476

44 B.C. to A.D. 476
Romans borrowed heavily from the earlier Greek and Hellenistic styles, but their buildings were more highly ornamented

BYZANTINE

530

527 to 565
After Constantine moved the capital of the Roman empire to Byzantium Roman architecture evolved into a graceful, classically-inspired style that used brick instead of stone, domed roofs, elaborate mosaics, and classical forms.

Romanesque

1026

800 to 1200
As Rome spread across Europe, heavier, stocky Romanesque architecture with rounded arches

GOTHIC

1249

1100 to 1450
. Gothic architecture became characterized by the elements that supported taller, more graceful architecture.In addition, elaborate stained glass could take the place of walls that no longer were used to support high ceilings.

Renaissance

1500

1400 to 1600
During the Renaissance era architects and builders were inspired by the carefully proportioned buildings of ancient Greece and Rome.More than 1,500 years after the Roman architect Vitruvius wrote his important book, the Renaissance architect Giacomo da Vignola outlined Vitruvius's ideas.

Baroque

1700

1600 to 1830
Early in the 1600s, an elaborate new architectural style lavished buildings. What became known as Baroque was characterized by complex shapes, extravagant ornaments, opulent paintings, and bold contrasts.

Rococo

1750

1650 to 1790
During the last phase of the Baroque period, builders constructed graceful white buildings with sweeping curves. Rococo art and architecture is characterized by elegant decorative designs with scrolls, vines, shell-shapes, and delicate geometric patterns.

Neoclassicism

1800

1730 to 1925
By the 1700s, European architects were turning away from elaborate Baroque and Rococo styles in favor of restrained Neoclassical approaches. Orderly, symmetrical Neoclassical architecture reflected the intellectual awakening among the middle and upper classes in Europe during the period historians often call the Enlightenment.

Art Nouveau

1900

1890 to 1914
Art Nouveau was first expressed in fabrics and graphic design. The style spread to architecture and furniture in the 1890s as a revolt against industrialization turned people's attention to the natural forms and personal craftsmanship of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Beaux Arts

1915

1895 to 1925
Also known as Beaux Arts Classicism, Academic Classicism, or Classical Revival, Beaux Arts architecture is characterized by order, symmetry, formal design, grandiosity, and elaborate ornamentation. Combining classical Greek and Roman architecture with Renaissance ideas, Beaux Arts architecture was a favored style for grand public buildings and opulent mansions.

Neo-Gothic

1920

1905 to 1930
Gothic Revival was a Victorian style inspired by Gothic cathedrals and other medieval architecture. Gothic Revival home design began in the United Kingdom in the 1700s when Sir Horace Walpole decided to remodel his home, Strawberry Hill.

Art Deco

1927

1925 to 1937
The Art Deco style evolved from many sources. The austere shapes of the modernist Bauhaus School and streamlined styling of modern technology combined with patterns and icons taken from the Far East, classical Greece and Rome, Africa, ancient Egypt and the Middle East, India, and Mayan and Aztec cultures.