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...
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...
Taste. Proportions the Beauty of Architecture
Today the term “taste” is often used vaguely to mean personal preference or ephemeral fashion. But in the 18th century the term was employed...
Industrial architecture
The industrial revolution brought new types of building, including factories and warehouses. Although based on older designs for buildings, such as mills, the factories...
Baroque
In the 17th and early 18th centuries a combination of religious change and the inventiveness of a number of architects in Italy and Central...
