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Period
When was it made, or when does it evoke?
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Period is a date. Style is a set of moves. Periods here are named by date range or dynastic label, never by the style that flourished in them, so an Art Deco bar built in 2024 is style art-deco in period contemporary.
11 terms
| Term | Identifier | Span | Definition | Broader | Usage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medieval | period.medieval | c. 1150-1485, defensibly 1066-1550 | Roughly 1100 to 1500 for anything with surviving fabric: load-bearing masonry, timber frames, and openings sized by what the structure would allow rather than by the room. | None | - |
| Renaissance | period.renaissance | c. 1420-1600, defensibly 1400-1650 | Roughly 1400 to 1600 in Italy and 1500 to 1620 north of the Alps; the bracket is dated from when classical proportion arrived locally, so it moves by a century across Europe. | None | - |
| Baroque | period.baroque | c. 1600-1750, defensibly 1580-1780 | Roughly 1600 to 1750, between the Renaissance and the neoclassical turn. | None | - |
| Georgian | period.georgian | 1714-1830, defensibly 1714-1837 | 1714 to 1830, the four Georges: classical proportion applied to ordinary building, sash windows, and the terrace and square as the unit of urban development. | None | - |
| Regency | period.regency | 1811-1820, defensibly 1795-1837 | The last Georgian phase, roughly 1795 to 1837: stucco over brick, cast iron balconies, and classical detail thinned and stretched. | Georgian | - |
| Victorian | period.victorian | 1837-1901 | 1837 to 1901: industrial production of building components, the bay window, pattern everywhere it could be printed or woven, and the first mass suburbs. | None | - |
| Edwardian | period.edwardian | 1901-1910, defensibly 1901-1914 | 1901 to 1914 in trade usage: lighter, plainer and better-lit than late Victorian, with wider plots and less pattern. | None | - |
| Interwar | period.interwar | 1918-1939 | 1918 to 1939: the semi-detached suburb, the cinema and the lido, and the point at which modernism and revivalism were being built side by side on the same street. | None | - |
| Mid-Century | period.mid_century | c. 1945-1965, defensibly 1933-1975 | 1945 to 1970: postwar reconstruction, system building, and the first interiors designed around mass-produced furniture rather than inherited pieces. | None | - |
| Late Twentieth Century | period.late_century | c. 1970-1999, defensibly 1965-2000 | 1970 to 1999: the bracket after mid-century and before the millennium, covering the postmodern turn, the high-tech buildings and the first wave of warehouse conversion. | None | - |
| Contemporary | period.contemporary | c. 2000 to now, defensibly from 1990 | 2000 onwards: built or made in the present century, whatever it looks like. | None | - |
Machine-readable
Every term on this axis is in the full dump: JSON-LD · Turtle