Architectural Styles Throughout the Eras

Introduction:

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Humanity has been here on this planet for a really long time. Throughout that time, we have developed from simple hunters and gatherers to a highly complex, sophisticated society. It has taken thousands of years to truly achieve this state, and yet we are still growing as a race.

Start by seeing humanities origins in the Stone Age through its art Explore the Ancient World, with the Bronze Age that contained Ancient Civilizations, like the Egyptians, Babylonians and Greeks. Explore the great empires that ruled the world during the Iron Age such as the Romans and Persians. See the conflict and domination of the Middle Ages. View the dawn of the Modern World, starting with great reforming in the Renaissance, the heavy industrialization in the Industrial Era to the 20th century and it’s many conflicts, innovations and the slow human expansion into the cosmos. 

 The purpose of this page is to allow oneself to explore history in a structured immersive way that allows the individual to cultivate curiosity. It is for those who want to dive deeper into a specific era that inspires them. Each of these eras are an important part of human history, each with there own history, aesthetics and purpose, in painting the grand picture of humanity. 

 

The Stone Age

350,000BC-3000BC

Neolithic Architecture
10000-2000BC

The Ancient World

3000BC-500AD

Sumerian
10000-6000BC
Ancient Egyptian
Egypt, 3100 BC-300 AD
Mesoamerican
Maya, Aztec, Inca 2000BC-1519AD
Classical Greek
900BC-250AD
Roman
Roman Empire (Italy) (800BC-500AD)
Byzantine
Roman Empire, Byzantium Empire (Modern Day Turkey) 4000BC-1453
Moorish
Iberian Peninsula 8000-Present
Cycladic
Cyclades Islands 30000BC Present

The Middle Ages

500-1400AD

Medieval Architecture
Hoysala
Karnataka, India 1000-1400
Romanesque
Europe 1000-1150
Norman
Mudejar
Gothic
Muscovite
Vijayanagar
Sondergotik

The Modern Age

1400-2000

Renaissance

Renaissance
Tudor
Manueline
Mannerism
Spanish Renaissance
Mughal
Herrarian
Baroque
Palladism

Industrialization Era

Russian Baroque
Georgian
Neoclassical
Gothic Revival
Pombaline Style
Federal Architecture
Russian Revival
Victorian
Romanesque Revival
Queen Ann Style
Beaux-Arts
Second Empire

Modern Era

Prairie Style
Edwardian Baroque
National Romantic Style
CC
Heliopolis Style
Futurism
Nordic Classicism
Expressionism
Amsterdam School
Modernism
Spanish Colonial Revival
Constructivism
Bauhaus
Mediterranean Revival
Egyptian Revival
Fascist Architecture
Art Deco
International Style
Streamline Moderne
Stalinist
Nazi Architecture
Usonian

Postmodern Era

Mid-Century Modern
Googie
Brutalism
Critical Regionalism
Deconstructivism
Parametricism
Metabolist Movement
Postmodernism
Shed Style
Structural Expressionism
Memphis Group
Neo-futurism
Arcology
Contemporary
Blobitecture

The Digital Age

2000-Present

Neomodern
Sustainable
New Classical