Gothic Revival
Pointed arches reborn
Gothic Revival refers to the architectural movement that emerged in Britain in the mid-18th century and flourished through the 19th, reviving medieval Gothic elements like pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses.
The style spread across Europe and America, producing churches, universities, and public buildings: The Houses of Parliament are a masterpiece of Gothic Revival. (Lowercase gothic revival describes any resurgence of gothic styles.)
- Houses of ParliamentUK's legislative seat
- pointed archesSpans peaking at apex
- pointed archArch with angled apex
- Arts and Crafts movementDesign reform favoring traditional making
- Pre-Raphaelite BrotherhoodMid-century English artistic revolt
tracery · Victorian era · rose windows · flying buttresses · pinnacles · stained glass · high ceilings · spires · medievalism · gargoyles · buttresses · Romanticism · castle ruins · cloisters · vaulted ceilings · antiquarianism · cathedral · ecclesiastical
- American Architecturecolonial, Craftsman, bungalow, ranch house, Cape Cod
- architectureEiffel Tower, buildings, architects, design, thatching
- architecture stylesart deco, Art Nouveau, minimalism, modernism, Modernism
- British Architecturemanor house, terraced house, terraced houses, semi-detached, detached house
- historic architectureVersailles, Blenheim Palace, Hampton Court, Monticello, Mount Vernon
- historic homesmansion, manor house, manor houses, plantation house, colonial house
Gothic RevivalNeoclassicism
Revival of ancient aesthetics
Palladian · Beaux-Arts · Georgian architecture · Federal style · Italianate
Gothic RevivalInternational Style
Functionalist architecture movement, 1920s
Modernism · Bauhaus · Functionalism · Brutalism · minimalist architecture