Architecture for Dummies

Best Day gift arhitektury.Barokko, Rococo, constructivism, deconstructivism, Art Nouveau and Modernism - throughout this magnificent heritage, which is all over the world left restless architects, not so easy to understand.

And a way out. By analogy with the instructions for painting Website was a brief reminder of architectural styles. With it, you always come across the company on a walk, and raise their self-esteem.

Architects, artists and snobs, please do not treat our investigations too harshly. This is a simplified and incomplete classification is designed to help each of the distinguished Baroque Gothic Revival, and thus make the world a little more enlightened and cultured.

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If all is strict, direct, blissfully symmetrical and large round columns - it Classicism

Pantheon in Paris.



If classicism became more solemn, bombastic and higher, it is empire

Triumphal Arch in Moscow.



If this main building of Moscow State University, or one of six other such buildings twins, or ring metro stations, it is Stalin's empire

The hotel "Ukraine" in Moscow.



If you are tired of classicism rigor, straight lines and adherence to the ancient canons and now the building resembles a dessert with whipped cream, sprinkled with gold, decorated with stone atlantes and other people - it Baroque

The castle of Versailles in Paris.



If you think that the building flirts with you, whimsical purses lips and corrects abundant but thin, light, elegant gold ornaments and swirls, you're not uporolis. It's just Rococo

Chinese house in Potsdam, Germany.



If the splendor of the densely naleplennyh details and frills becomes uncomfortable, even baroque, it is ultrabarokko

Cathedral of St. James in Santiago de Compostela in Spain.



If the building in Russia looks like a painted tall gingerbread house, and immediately want to eat, it is Russian baroque

Peter and Paul cathedral in Kazan.



If the building is like something very old Russian, but all the "rich" and decorated the antiquity does not pull, it is pseudo-Russian style

GUM in Moscow.



If you think that a building can be scratched - it is all tall, slim and sharp - it Gothic Revival

Palace of Westminster in London.



The threat is not scratched so great, but still all thin and high. Tower square, the window in the middle of a round, all sit and horror depicted torment. This Gothic

Reims Cathedral in France.



If you look at the building you can hear jazz or recall Charleston, resemble the contours of his hefty stone or a faceted crystal with the addition of aluminum and it all looks very big, it is Deco

Chrysler Building in New York.



If there is a suspicion that somewhere in this house lives or works Iron Man, but a little out of date - it Modernism

Museum of Contemporary Art in Niteroi, Brazil.



A modern (also known as Art Nouveau, also known as Art Nouveau) - is quite another. Modern - is when lots of carefully made details about the living and the world of antiquity, in the lines of natural, in the forms of singularity, but it looks more or less normally. Well, if Gaudi exclude, of course.

Casa Batllo in Barcelona.



If the concrete parallelepiped or cylinder cut down small windows, painted in gray, white, yellow or green, and made an interesting entrance group from the concrete - it Constructivism

White Tower in Ekaterinburg.



If the house is broken, bent, twisted, collapsed and generally behaving strangely - it Deconstruction

Dancing House in Prague.



Not to be confused with high-tech Biotech: it's all glass, metal and concrete, but High-Tech with angles, and Biotech without corners.

Building Fuji TV in Japan.





Skyscraper to 30 St. Mary Axe in London.



If anything is not clear, and all are mixed, it seems, the architect does not shrink substances - it postmodernism

Library in San Antonio, United States.



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