Revivalism (architecture)
Revivalism in architecture is the use of visual styles that consciously echo the style of a previous architectural era.
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Typical historicist house: Gründerzeit building by Arwed Roßbach in Leipzig, Germany (built in 1892)
Modern-day revival styles can be summarized within new Classical architecture.
Movements
- Mixed
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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
- Indo-Saracenic architecture (revival of Indian architecture and Islamic architecture)
- Georgian Revival architecture (revival of Georgian architecture)
- Mediterranean Revival architecture (revival of Italian Renaissance architecture and Spanish Baroque architecture)
- Preclassical Revival
- Mycenaean Revival architecture (revival of Mycenaean Greek architecture)
- Ancient era Revival
- Egyptian Revival architecture (revival of Ancient Egyptian architecture)
- Indo-Saracenic architecture (revival of Indian architecture and Islamic architecture)
- Neoclassical architecture (revival of Classical architecture)
- Postclassical Revival
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St. Michael the Archangel Church in Kaunas was built in Neo-Byzantine style
- Byzantine Revival architecture (revival of Byzantine architecture)
- Mayan Revival architecture (revival of Maya architecture)
- Medieval Revival
- Romanesque Revival architecture (revival of Romanesque architecture)
- Romanesque Revival Architecture in the United Kingdom
- Richardsonian Romanesque
- Gothic Revival architecture (revival of Gothic architecture)
- Carpenter Gothic
- Scots Baronial Style architecture
- Neo-Manueline (revival of Manueline)
- Moorish Revival architecture (revival of Moorish architecture)
- Tudor Revival architecture (revival of Tudor Style architecture)
- Black-and-white Revival architecture
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Schwerin Palace, historical ducal seat of Mecklenburg, Germany – an example of pompous renaissance revival for representation purposes (built in 1857)
- 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)
- Jacobethan (revival of Jacobean architecture and Elizabethan architecture)
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Opera, Paris (Palais Garnier) by Charles Garnier, 1861-1875
- 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 Revival architecture
- Modern Revival
- Colonial Revival architecture (revival of American Colonial architecture)
- Pueblo Revival Style architecture (revival of Puebloan traditional architecture)
- Cape Cod Revival (revival of Cape Cod)
- Dutch Colonial Revival architecture (revival of Dutch Colonial architecture)
- Spanish Colonial Revival architecture (revival of Spanish Colonial architecture)
- California Churrigueresque (revival of Churrigueresque and Mexican Baroque)
- Mission Revival Style architecture (revival of Architecture of the California Missions)
- Territorial Revival architecture (revival of Territorial architecture)
- Other Revival
- Resort architecture (Bäderarchitektur, includes revival elements and adds new stylistic measures)
- Swiss chalet style
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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
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