Revival architecture
Revival architecture
The use of older styles in new architectural movements, most often referring to the Gothic, Roman, Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, Colonial, or revival styles of the 18th and 19th century.
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Revival architecture
Architecture that makes use of elements of an earlier style that it seeks to emulate, borrowing many of the features of its prototype, as described under the term architectural mode. For example, see Adam Revival, American Colonial Revival, American Renaissance Revival, Byzantine Revival, California Mission Revival, Carpenter Gothic Revival, Chateauesque Revival, Classical Revival style, Classic Revival, Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival, Early Classical Revival, Early Gothic Revival, Early Romanesque Revival, Egyptian Revival, Exotic Revival, Federal Revival, French Revival, Georgian Revival, Gothic Revival, Greek Revival style, International Revival, Italian Renaissance Revival, Jacobethan Revival, Late Gothic Revival, Mediterranean Revival, Mission Revival, Monterey Revival, Moorish Revival, Neoclassical Revival, Neoclassical style, Neoclassicism, Neo-Colonial, Neo-Eclectic, Neo-French, Neo-Georgian, Neo-Gothic, Neo-Grec, Neo-Greek Revival, Neo-Romanesque, Neo-Tudor, Neo-Victorian, Oriental Revival, Period Revival, Pueblo Revival, Regency Revival, Renaissance Revival, Romanesque Revival, Second Renaissance Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, Spanish Pueblo Revival, Territorial Revival, Tudor Revival, Tuscan Revival.
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