Styles

Architectural styles and movements, from Modernism and Brutalism to Critical Regionalism, with the buildings that define them.

  • Modernism

    The twentieth-century movement of functional form, new materials and rejection of ornament.

    29 projects

  • Brutalism

    Post-war architecture of massive, exposed concrete and honest structure.

    1 projects

  • Minimalism

    Architecture reduced to essential forms, materials and light.

    25 projects · 1 guides & articles

  • Mid-Century Modern

    The modern domestic architecture of the 1940s–60s, from Eichler homes to Case Study Houses.

    3 projects

  • Art Deco

    The geometric, decorative style of the 1920s and 1930s.

    1 projects

  • Vernacular Architecture

    Traditional building shaped by local materials, climate and know-how.

    8 projects

  • Mediterranean Architecture

    The whitewashed, courtyard-based architecture of the Mediterranean climate.

    8 projects