Architectural Styles

Today I want to show you a little reminder for the most common architectural styles. With this brief and unpretentious article, you can impress a girl while dating and nice raise their self-esteem. Pantheon in Paris

If all is strict, straight, symmetrical and blissfully with large round columns - this classicism.





Triumphal arch in Moscow

If classicism became more solemn, pretentious and above, it is an empire.



The hotel "Ukraine" in Moscow

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



The castle of Versailles in Paris

If you are tired of classicism rigor, straight lines and following the ancient canons, and now the building resembles a dessert with whipped cream, sprinkled with gold, decorated with stone Atlanta and other people - it is baroque.



Chinese house in Potsdam, Germany

If you think that the building is flirting with you, whimsical purses lips and corrects abundant but thin, light, elegant gold ornaments and swirls, you will not uporolis. Just this rococo.



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

If the splendor of densely naleplennyh details and frills feel uncomfortable even baroque, it ultrabarokko.



Peter and Paul Cathedral in Kazan

If the building in Russia looks like a painted high gingerbread house, and he wants to eat immediately, this Russian Baroque.



GUM in Moscow

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. Disappointing that name.



Palace of Westminster in London

If you think about the building can be scratched - so everything in it is high, thin and sharp - it is neo-gothic.



Reims Cathedral in France

Scratched threat is not so great, but still all fine and high. Tower square window in the middle of the round, all sitting horror and anguish depicted. This Gothic.



Chrysler Building in New York

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



Museum of Contemporary Art in Niteroi, Brazil

If there is a suspicion that somewhere in this house lives or works Iron Man, but a little out of date, it's modernism.



Casa Batllo in Barcelona

A modern (aka art nouveau, he's Jugendstil) - is quite another. Nouveau - is when lots of carefully made items about the living world and antiquity, in the lines of natural, in the forms of unusual, but it looks more or less normally. Well, if Gaudi exclude, of course.



White Tower in Yekaterinburg

If the concrete parallelepiped or cylinder cut down small windows, painted in gray, white, yellow or green, and made an interesting entrance group of concrete, this is constructivism.



Dancing House in Prague

If the house is broken, bent, twisted, collapsed and generally behaves strangely, this deconstruction.



Fuji TV building in Japan

Not to be confused with high-tech bio-Tecom: it's all glass, metal and concrete, but the hi-tech with angles and bio-tech without corners.



The Gherkin in London



Library in San Antonio, United States

If anything is not clear, all mixed, and it seems that the architect is not squeamish substances is postmodernism.



Source: www.adme.ru