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Christopher Wren designed this late-17th century building that features a dome within a dome.

St. Pauls Cathedral, London

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Frank Lloyd Wright designed this spiral-shaped building that resembles a parking garage design.

The Guggenheim Museum, New York

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Architect Frank Gehry designed this building that was completed in 2003 that is an example of his sculptural approach to modern architecture.

The Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles

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This Roman masterpiece was built in the 2nd century A.D., featuring a concrete dome with an oculus.

The Pantheon
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This Chicago skyscraper that was built in the 1970s is the tallest building in the United States.

The Sears Tower (Willis Tower)

This Neoclassical American landmark built in the first part of the 19th century features a massive dome.

The U.S. Capitol Building

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This Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece was a private residence built atop a waterfall in western Pennsylvania in the 1930s.

Fallingwater
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This provocative 1950s architectural design by R. Buckminster Fuller featured an exterior framework of metal rods and six-sided plates.

The Geodesic Dome

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This ancient Greek temple built in the 5th century B.C. is a refined example of post-and-lintel construction.

The Parthenon
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This ancient and mysterious configuration of giant stones in England reflects the ancients awareness of celestial bodies.

Stonehenge
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Thomas Jefferson designed his Neoclassical style home in Virginia in the late 18th century.

Monticello
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Completed in 2010, this Middle Eastern skyscraper is the tallest building in the world.

Burj Khalifa
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This Parisian modern art museum built in the 1970s features a controversial inside out design.

The Pompidou Center

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King Louis XIV started the building of the extraordinarily magnificent French summer palace in the 1660s.

The Palace at Versailles

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This extraordinary architectural work was completed about 4500 years ago as a burial chamber for the Egyptian pharoah and his family.

The Great Pyramid of Cheops

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This architectural style period of the early Middle Ages (1000-1150 A.D.) featured rounded arches, thick walls and pillars, and small windows.

Romanesque
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This style of architecture dominates the skylines of most of the worlds cities today. It is seen in the glass-and-steel box forms of modern skyscrapers.

The International Style

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This style period of architecture (1750-1825 A.D.) featured an ongoing influence from archaeological discoveries of the ancient Greeks and incorporated elements of those ancient styles, displayed an eclectic approach by combining elements from various styles, and expressed an attitude of modernism (that artistic design could uniquely express itself anew in the modern era).

Neoclassical
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This architectural style period (11501400 A.D.) featured the pointed arch and is best illustrated by its cathedrals.

Gothic
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This style period of architecture (1825-1900 A.D.) borrowed greatly from other historic styles, including the Gothic and Oriental styles. Exterior walls tended to function as a screen, disguising the structure, interior design and usage of a building. There were frequently strong contrasts of forms and asymmetrical balance. Experimentation and the use of new materials also characterized the period.

Romantic
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This style period of architecture (1400-1600 A.D.) featured a revival of Classic Roman style that included copying the size and proportions of Roman ruins, the addition of decorative detail to the faades of buildings, and a development of external designs that concealed the underlying structures.

Renaissance
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This style period of architecture (1600-1750 A.D.) was characterized by grandeur, decorative detail, and ostentatious display of wealth. A prime example is the Palace at Versailles.

Baroque
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Frank Lloyd Wrights approach to architectural design which emphasized designs that were in complete aesthetic harmony with their surroundings became known as this.

Organic Architecture

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This late-19th century Chicago architect created an approach to design that emphasized careful consideration of the use of spaces within his designs and then the design of structure to provide those spaces, summarized as Form follows function.

Louis Sullivan
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The combining together of aesthetic elements taken from more than one style.

Eclecticism

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An exterior face of a building that hides its underlying structure.

Faade

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Horizontal beams are supported by vertical posts or columns. These structures were made of stone.

Post-and-Lintel Structures

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A structure such as an overhanging roof or beam that is supported only on one end.

Cantilever
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These structures use the walls to support the roof, floors, and themselves. Examples are concrete block structures, common in South Florida, and log cabins.

Bearing Wall Structures

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This stone structural technique was developed by the ancient Romans. It can define large spaces, transferring stresses outward from its center, the keystone, to its legs, and not depending upon the tensile strength of the material.

The Arch
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