Architecture and Design Atlas
Claims this atlas currently marks as unsettled or as tested and found false. A debated fact is one scholars hold competing positions on; a debunked one has been checked against the record and found not to hold. Both are kept in view rather than quietly smoothed over, with the reasoning that put each one where it stands.
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Ancient Chinese Architecture, Period Start Year500
Ancient Chinese Architecture, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period Start Year
Currently States 500
Marks the earliest surviving physical evidence of the timber-frame, bracket-set tradition this entity describes, seen in cave-temple construction of the 5th and 6th centuries AD. The wider building tradition traces further back through earlier dynasties in the BC era, which is not forced into this integer column, matching this entity's own period-end-year StatusNote convention.
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Apollodorus of Damascus, NationalityBorn in Damascus, Roman Syria
Apollodorus of Damascus, Architects and Designers
Standing
Concerns Nationality
Currently States Born in Damascus, Roman Syria
Ancient and modern sources differ on his ethnicity: he has been described as Syrian, Arab, Nabataean Arab, or a Hellenized provincial. Birth in Damascus, in Roman Syria, is the one point of agreement.
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Brutalism, Period End Year1980
Brutalism, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period End Year
Currently States 1980
Sources give a range rather than a single year: popularity declined through the late 1970s, with the movement generally considered over by the early 1980s.
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Classical Greek Architecture, Period End Year100
Classical Greek Architecture, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period End Year
Currently States 100
Century-level approximation only, no exact year is given: sources place the close of the Greek temple-building tradition around the 1st century AD, as it folds into Roman practice. The tradition's own beginning falls in the BC era and is carried in the entity's prose description rather than forced into a start-year column.
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Gothic Architecture, Period End Year1500
Gothic Architecture, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period End Year
Currently States 1500
The Renaissance supplanted Gothic in Italy by the mid fifteenth century, while Gothic forms continued in England and Belgium into the sixteenth century and later; 1500 is an approximate midpoint, not a single agreed end date.
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Gothic Revival, Period End Year1890
Gothic Revival, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period End Year
Currently States 1890
No sharp end: influence had already peaked by the 1870s and the style fell out of fashion gradually across the 1880s and into the early 1890s.
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Islamic Architecture, Period Start Year610
Islamic Architecture, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period Start Year
Currently States 610
Century-level approximation only, no exact year is given: the source places the start in early 7th-century Arabia with the formation of Islam under Muhammad's leadership. No period-end-year is written since the tradition continues to the present day per the same source.
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Modernist Architecture, Period End Year1980
Modernist Architecture, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period End Year
Currently States 1980
The replacement by postmodern architecture as the leading style for institutional and corporate buildings was gradual rather than a single sharp date; modernist design continued in narrower forms afterward.
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Postmodern Architecture, Period End Year1999
Postmodern Architecture, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period End Year
Currently States 1999
No clean end: rather than concluding, the movement fragmented in the late 1990s into successor tendencies (high-tech, neo-futurism, new classicism, deconstructivism), and some buildings designed after this period are still called postmodern.
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Renaissance Architecture, Period End Year1600
Renaissance Architecture, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period End Year
Currently States 1600
Renaissance principles evolved through Mannerism, roughly 1520 to 1600, into the Baroque; scholars differ on whether to count Mannerism as late Renaissance or as its own transitional phase.
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Roman Architecture, Period End Year400
Roman Architecture, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period End Year
Currently States 400
Century-level approximation only, no exact year is given: sources place the close around the 4th century AD, after which building in the former Roman world is reclassified as Late Antique or Byzantine architecture. The tradition's own beginning, 509 BC, the founding of the Roman Republic, is carried in the entity's prose description rather than forced into a start-year column.
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Romanesque Architecture, Period Start Year1000
Romanesque Architecture, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period Start Year
Currently States 1000
The same source gives both an 11th-to-13th-century range and an 11th-and-12th-century range for Romanesque; 1000 to 1200 is used here as the more commonly cited window.
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Romanesque Architecture, Period End Year1200
Romanesque Architecture, Styles and Movements
Standing
Concerns Period End Year
Currently States 1200
The same source gives both an 11th-to-13th-century range and an 11th-and-12th-century range for Romanesque; 1000 to 1200 is used here as the more commonly cited window.
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The Golden Ratio in Architecture, DescriptionThe proportion of roughly 1 to 1.618, in which the whole relates to its larger part as the larger part does to the smaller, long claimed as a secret of beautiful building. Le Corbusier built it into his Modulor system of measures deliberately; readings of it into the Parthenon, the pyramids and the cathedrals are popular and contested, since the evidence is measurement after the fact rather than any ancient document.
The Golden Ratio in Architecture, Concepts
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Concerns Description
Currently States The proportion of roughly 1 to 1.618, in which the whole relates to its larger part as the larger part does to the smaller, long claimed as a secret of beautiful building. Le Corbusier built it into his Modulor system of measures deliberately; readings of it into the Parthenon, the pyramids and the cathedrals are popular and contested, since the evidence is measurement after the fact rather than any ancient document.
That designers across history deliberately built to the golden ratio is a widespread claim and a genuinely disputed one: the ratio demonstrably underlies deliberate modern systems such as Le Corbusier's Modulor, but claims of its intentional use in the Parthenon and other ancient works rest on after-the-fact measurement rather than documents, and scholars have repeatedly shown how easily selective measuring finds the ratio anywhere.
Source Encyclopedia Britannica