Architectural Styles
Architectural Styles is a structured art & design dataset with 15 entries. Its fields include Style, Era, Key Features. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 15 rows
- Fields
- 5 columns
- Source
- Community curated
- Data updated
- Mar 6, 2026
Included fields: Style, Era, Key Features, Iconic Example, Known For.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
No reliable range or grouping can be calculated from the loaded rows without interpreting the source data.
Useful for
- Comparing Style, Era, and Key Features across art & design entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 15 downloadable records
Style↕ | Era↕ | Key Features↕ | Iconic Example↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gothic | 12th-16th century | Pointed arches, flying buttresses, ribbed vaults, stained glass | Notre-Dame de Paris | Cathedrals that took 200 years to build, light flooding through stained glass, gargoyles, reaching toward heaven, medieval engineering flex |
Art Deco | 1920s-1940s | Geometric shapes, bold colors, lavish ornamentation, zigzag patterns | Chrysler Building, NYC | Roaring Twenties glamour, Great Gatsby aesthetic, Chrysler Building eagle gargoyles, luxury and optimism in architectural form |
Brutalism | 1950s-1970s | Raw concrete (beton brut), massive forms, repetitive geometry | Barbican Centre, London | You either love it or want to demolish it, raw concrete monoliths, Soviet bloc vibes, Instagram rediscovery, 'it looks like a bunker' |
Modernism | 1920s-1970s | Clean lines, open floor plans, glass curtain walls, 'less is more' | Villa Savoye (Le Corbusier) | Form follows function, Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, stripped all ornament, glass box skyscrapers everywhere, Bauhaus origins |
Baroque | 17th-18th century | Grandeur, drama, curves, gilding, trompe l'oeil ceilings | Palace of Versailles | Maximum opulence, gold everything, Catholic Church propaganda tool, Versailles Hall of Mirrors, theatrical excess, 'more is more' |
Art Nouveau | 1890s-1910s | Organic curves, floral motifs, stained glass, ironwork | Casa Batllo (Gaudi), Barcelona | Nature-inspired flowing lines, Gaudi's masterpieces, Paris Metro entrances, Tiffany lamps, brief but beautiful movement |
Neoclassical | 18th-19th century | Greek/Roman columns, symmetry, pediments, domes | The White House / US Capitol | Greek temple revival, every government building ever, columns = authority, Thomas Jefferson championed it, democratic ideals in stone |
Deconstructivism | 1980s-present | Fragmented forms, sharp angles, distorted geometry, chaos | Guggenheim Bilbao (Frank Gehry) | Buildings that look like they're falling apart on purpose, Gehry's crumpled titanium, Zaha Hadid's curves, architectural rule-breaking |
Renaissance | 15th-17th century | Symmetry, proportion, domes, classical orders, mathematical harmony | Florence Cathedral (Brunelleschi's Dome) | Rebirth of classical ideals, Brunelleschi solved the dome problem, human-centered proportions, Michelangelo's St. Peter's |
Postmodernism | 1960s-1990s | Playful colors, historical references, irony, ornamentation returns | AT&T Building (now 550 Madison), NYC | Rejected Modernism's boring boxes, Chippendale top on a skyscraper, Robert Venturi's 'less is a bore', architecture with humor |
Organic Architecture | 1900s-present | Harmony with nature, natural materials, flowing forms, site integration | Fallingwater (Frank Lloyd Wright) | Fallingwater built over a waterfall, Wright's 'building should grow from its site', prairie houses, nature and structure as one |
Minimalism | 1960s-present | Extreme simplicity, monochrome, open space, invisible details | Church of the Light (Tadao Ando) | Nothing unnecessary, Tadao Ando's concrete poetry, Japanese aesthetic influence, Apple Store vibes, architecture of absence |
Parametricism | 2000s-present | Algorithm-generated curves, fluid forms, computer-designed complexity | Heydar Aliyev Center (Zaha Hadid) | Buildings that look like alien spacecraft, Zaha Hadid's legacy, only possible with computers, swooping impossible curves |
Tudor | 15th-16th century (revival: 19th-20th) | Half-timbering, steep gabled roofs, tall chimneys, leaded glass | Hampton Court Palace, London | Black-and-white timber frames, quintessentially English, Henry VIII vibes, cozy and storybook, suburban revival homes everywhere |
Prairie Style | 1900s-1920s | Horizontal lines, flat/hipped roofs, open interior, integration with landscape | Robie House (Frank Lloyd Wright) | Frank Lloyd Wright's American invention, horizontal lines echo the flat Midwest, open floor plans before it was cool, uniquely American |
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Frequently asked questions
How is Architectural Styles organized?
The table starts in the source data's order. Community voting is enabled as a separate approval signal beside eligible rows; votes do not replace the source values.
How much data is available on this page?
This dataset contains 15 entries, and every row is available in the table and in the downloadable files.
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Yes. CSV, JSON, and Excel downloads contain all 15 rows. Before republishing the data, review the source and any usage terms listed on this page; dtbse does not replace the original source's licensing terms.
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