From temple to skyscraper
Architecture's styles in order, from Greek temples to the glass and steel of today.
Seventeen styles over 2,700 years. For each style you read what characterises it and practise recognising it in real buildings.
Read the page at each step, then do the short exercise: three questions. Two right answers complete the step. You can repeat the exercise as often as you like.
The steps
- Step 1: Looking at a building
- Step 2: Ancient Greek
- Step 3: Ancient Roman
- Step 4: Byzantine style
- Step 5: Romanesque
- Step 6: Gothic
- Step 7: Renaissance
- Step 8: Baroque
- Step 9: Rococo
- Step 10: Neoclassicism
- Step 11: Historicism
- Step 12: Art Nouveau
- Step 13: National Romanticism
- Step 14: Nordic Classicism
- Step 15: Functionalism
- Step 16: Post-war modernism
- Step 17: Postmodernism
- Step 18: Contemporary architecture