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Architectural styles can be thought of as a collection of patterns that work well together and build off of one another. This category lists various architectural styles and identifies the patterns that are that the core of those styles.
Problem / Situation
At its best, an architectural style represents a set of patterns that work well together.
At its worse, people end up copying the most visible aspects of a style at the surface level only, without following any of the true patterns that would make the style meaningful.
Solution
When encorporating an established architectural style / school into your grammar, ensure that you fully understand the reasons behind why things are done a particular way by that style / school. Do not copy elements of that style if they do not apply to your situation.
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Supporting Patterns  | These styles each originate from a specific region of the world, having grown out of local cultures and conditions. Many of them continue to be used today, sometimes in modified forms. |
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 | These are styles from the century leading up to the modern era |
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 | These are styles that started in and grew out of the modern movement in the first half of the 20th century. While the moderm movement started in Europe, it quickly spread to North Amercia and much of the rest of the world. |
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 | Unlike Modernism, in particular The International Style, which avoids ornamentation, Postmodernism represents a return to ornamentation for ornamentation's sake. Postmodernism often intentionally juxtoposes other styles. At the same time Postmodernism draws on much of the vocabular of Modernism. |
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 | These are buildings that combine two or more architectural styles in a way that compliment one another and create an exciting new result. Often such buildings are the product of an older building designed in a traditional style being renovated or transformed with elements from modern style(s). |
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