Architect
Garden city
In the 1870s a number of landlords and social reformers began to design improved housing for ordinary people, creating spacious settlements with generous gardens...
Art Nouveau
One of the strongest reactions against the clutter, formality and artistic revivalism of the Victorian period was Art Nouveau—a style of art that swept...
Beaux-arts
The beaux-arts style was a way of building that originated in the school of fine arts set up in Paris in the early 19th...
Arts and Crafts
A number of 19th-century British architects and designers turned away from industry to create a revival of craft-based architecture using local materials. The resulting...
The City Beautiful
There is something very distinctive about the grid plans of American cities, but also something limited. At the end of the 19th century a...
Revivalism
The Victorian period was the heyday of revivalist architecture, a way of building in which style was a question of reproducing the architecture of...
Orientalism
Western Europe became fascinated with “the Orient” in the late 17th and 18th centuries, as links with China and India became stronger. Few European...
Age of Reason
At the height of the Enlightenment, architects in France turned to an architecture that attempted to use pure forms, such as pyramids, cylinders and...
Neoclassicism
In the last few decades of the 18th century a new attitude to the ancient remains of Greece and Rome began to emerge. Archaeologists...
Rococo
Toward the end of the baroque period architects and, especially, interior designers turned away from the grandiose effects that sometimes dominated baroque architecture and...
