Revivalism (architecture)
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Revivalism in architecture is the use of visual styles that consciously echo the style of a previous architectural era.
Modern-day revival styles can be summarized within New Classical Architecture, and sometimes under the umbrella term traditional architecture.
Western Architecture
- Mixed Movements
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- Gründerzeit – German historicist architecture of the 2nd half of the 19th century, distinctive style mélange; later variations included, e.g., "Heimatstil"
- Russian Revival architecture – generic term for a number of different movements within Russian architecture that arose in second quarter of the 19th century.
- Historicism or Historism – mixed revivals that can include several older styles, combined with new elements
- Neo-Historism – revival of historicist architecture including several revival styles; emerged from Postmodern architecture in the late 1990s
- New Classical Architecture – an umbrella term for modern-day architecture following pre-modernist principles
- Traditionalist School – revival of different regional traditional styles
- Vernacular architecture – umbrella term for regional architecture traditions continuing through the eras, also used and cited in revival architecture
- Preclassical Revival
- Mycenaean Revival architecture (revival of Mycenaean Greek architecture)
- Classical Revival
- Neoclassical architecture (revival of Classical architecture)
- Postclassical Revival
- Byzantine Revival architecture (revival of Byzantine architecture)
- Medieval Revival
- Romanesque Revival architecture (revival of Romanesque architecture)
- Gothic Revival architecture (revival of Gothic architecture)
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- Renaissance Revival
- Renaissance Revival architecture (revival of Renaissance architecture)
- Italianate architecture
- Palazzo style architecture – revival based on Italian Palazzo
- Mediterranean Revival architecture (revival of Italian Renaissance architecture)
- Palladian Revival architecture (revival of Palladian architecture)
- Châteauesque (revival of French Renaissance architecture)
- Spanish Revival architecture (revival of Spanish Renaissance architecture)
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- Baroque Revival
- Baroque Revival architecture (revival of Baroque architecture)
- Dutch Revival architecture (revival of Dutch Baroque architecture)
- Spanish Revival architecture (revival of Spanish Baroque architecture)
- Edwardian Baroque architecture
- Stalinist baroque
- Queen Anne Style architecture
- Modern era Revivals
- Tudor Revival architecture (revival of Tudor Style architecture)
- Colonial Revival architecture (revival of American Colonial architecture)
- Cape Cod Revival (revival of Cape Cod)
- Dutch Colonial Revival architecture (revival of Dutch Colonial architecture)
- Georgian Revival architecture (revival of Georgian architecture)
- Mediterranean Revival architecture (revival of Italian Renaissance architecture and Spanish Baroque architecture)
- Spanish Colonial Revival architecture (revival of Spanish Colonial architecture and Churrigueresque style)
- Resort architecture (Bäderarchitektur, includes revival elements and adds new stylistic measures)
- Swiss chalet style
Sinic Architecture
The following architecture are from the Sinosphere.
Indic Architecture
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The following architecture are from the Indosphere.
- Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture (revival of Indian architecture and Islamic architecture)
- Architecture of Indonesia
- Siamese Architecture
- Khmer architecture
Islamic Architecture
- Moorish Revival architecture (revival of Moorish architecture)
Pre-Islamic Architecture
Native-American Architecture
- Mayan Revival architecture (revival of Maya architecture)
- Pueblo Revival Style architecture (revival of Puebloan traditional architecture)
References
- Scott Trafton (2004), Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania, Duke University Press, ISBN 0-8223-3362-7. p. 142.
External links
Media related to Historicist architecture at Wikimedia Commons