Major Western Architectural Movements Before and After Gothic

(All dates below are approximate and overlapping)

2000-1450 B.C.E. Minoan Architecture

• Knossos

1600-1250 B.C.E. Mycenaean Architecture

• Mycenae

(Note: these two styles greatly influenced classical Greek architecture)

600-100 B.C.E. Classical Greek Architecture

• Parthenon

100 B.C.E-300 C.E. Roman Architecture

• Philippi
• Rotunda (Thessaloniki)

(Note: Roman architecture was widely imitative of Greek; the composite style that resulted from the fusion of the two has in turn been imitated and adapted to the present day.  For more photos oclassical and neoclassical architecture, see Classical.)

300-1400 C.E. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture

• Churches of Thessaloniki
• Kariye Church, Istanbul

800-1200 Romanesque

1066-1200 Norman

• Canterbury Cathedral (Norman-Gothic Trans.)
• St. Aban's Cathedral (Norman-Gothic Trans.)

1100-1500 Gothic

1400-1600 Renaissance

• Queen's House (Greenwich, Inigo Jones)

1600-1800 Baroque (Palladian Revival, Neoclassical, Rococo)

• Royal Naval College (Greenwich, Sir Christpoher Wren)
• St. Paul's Cathedral (London, Sir Christopher Wren)
• Chiswick House (London, Burlington)

1780-1850 (and beyond) Greek Revival

1750-1850 (and beyond) Gothic Revival

1880-1920 Early Modern