Revivalism (architecture)

Typical historicist house: Gründerzeit building by Arwed Roßbach in Leipzig, Germany (built in 1892)

Revivalism in architecture is the use of visual styles that consciously echo the style of a previous architectural era.

Modern-day revival styles can be summarized within New Classical Architecture, and sometimes under the umbrella term traditional architecture.

Western Architecture

Mixed Movements

Neogothic Clock Tower at Palace of Westminster in London, by Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

• Gründerzeit – German historicist architecture of the 2nd half of the 19th century, distinctive style mélange; later variations included, e.g., "Heimatstil"
• Historicism or Historism – mixed revivals that can include several older styles, combined with new elements
  • Neo-Historism – revival of historicist architecture including several revival styles; emerged from Postmodern architecture in the late 1990s
• New Classical Architecture – an umbrella term for modern-day architecture following pre-modernist principles
• Traditionalist School – revival of different regional traditional styles
• Vernacular architecture – umbrella term for regional architecture traditions continuing through the eras, also used and cited in revival architecture

Preclassical Revival

• Mycenaean Revival architecture (revival of Mycenaean Greek architecture)

Classical Revival

• Neoclassical architecture (revival of Classical architecture)
  • Federal architecture
  • Greek Revival architecture (revival of Ancient Greek architecture)
  • Jeffersonian architecture
  • Regency architecture
  • Russian neoclassical revival

Postclassical Revival

• Byzantine Revival architecture (revival of Byzantine architecture)
  • Bristol Byzantine
  • Russo-Byzantine architecture

Medieval Revival

• Romanesque Revival architecture (revival of Romanesque architecture)
  • Richardsonian Romanesque
• Gothic Revival architecture (revival of Gothic architecture)
  • Carpenter Gothic
  • Neo-Manueline (revival of Manueline)
  • Scots Baronial Style architecture
• Russian Revival architecture (revival of Kievan Rus architecture)

Schwerin Palace, historical ducal seat of Mecklenburg, Germany – an example of pompous renaissance revival for representation purposes (built in 1857)

Renaissance Revival

• Renaissance Revival architecture (revival of Renaissance architecture)
  • Italianate architecture
  • Palazzo style architecture – revival based on Italian Palazzo
  • Mediterranean Revival architecture (revival of Italian Renaissance architecture)
  • Palladian Revival architecture (revival