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Definition of Style of architecture
1. Noun. Architecture as a kind of art form.
Generic synonyms: Art Form
Specialized synonyms: Bauhaus, Byzantine Architecture, Classical Architecture, Greco-roman Architecture, Gothic, Gothic Architecture, Romanesque, Romanesque Architecture, Moorish, Moorish Architecture, Victorian Architecture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Style Of Architecture
Literary usage of Style of architecture
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Experts have been at variance regarding the style of architecture at San Xavier,
some pronouncing it Moorish, others Byzantine, others again describing it ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... the Spanish style of architecture Churrigueresco (Baroque) takes its name.
Notwithstanding this, the influence of Herrera can be traced in the exterior. ..."
3. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste (1854)
"Imaginary composition, showing, In the background, the castellated Gothic style
of architecture ; next, the ecclesiastic Gothic ; then, the mixed Gothic ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The Italian revival was the means of extinguishing the Pointed style of architecture
in Germany, and certainly without affording it an equivalent. ..."
5. Nicaragua: Its People, Scenery, Monuments, and the Proposed Interoceanic Canal by Ephraim George Squier (1852)
"... THE GREAT CATHEDRAL—ITS style of architecture ; INTERIOR J MAGNIFICENT VIEW
FROM THE ROOF—THE " CUARTO DE LOS OBISPOS," OR GALLERY OF THE BISHOPS—THE ..."
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