Guide to recognising architecture styles

Megalithic

Mesopotamian Architecture

10000 - 6000 BC

Ancient Egyptian

2686 - 2096 BC

Ancient Greek – Archaic

650 - 480 BCE

Ancient Greek Classical

480 - 323 BCE

Ancient Greek Hellenistic

323 - 27 BCE

Ancient Roman Architecture

509 BC - 4th AD

Early Byzantine Architecture

330 - 730

Romanesque

1050 - 1200

Gothic / Pointed style

1130 - 1600

Perpendicular Gothic

1130 - 1600

Half Timbered Medieval

1450 - 1650 (in some places till 1900)

Hanseatic / Brick Gothic

1200 - 1500

Renaissance

1400 - 1600

Mannerism

1520 - 1600

Baroque Architecture

1600 - 1750

Rococo

1720 - 1780

Neoclassicism

1750 - 1850

Gothic Revival

1740 - 1900

Beaux-Arts

1830 - 1920

Arts and Crafts Movement

1880 - 1920

Art Nouveau

1890 - 1910

Edwardian Baroque

1901 - 1910

Art Deco

1920 - 1940

Bauhaus

1919 - 1933

International Style

1920s - 1950s