Architectural styles classify architecture in terms of form, techniques, materials, time period, region, etc. It overlaps with, and emerges from the study of the evolution and history of architecture. In architectural history, the study of Gothic architecture, for instance, would include all aspects of the cultural context that went into the design and construction of these structures. Architectural style is a way of classifying architecture that gives emphasis to characteristic features of design, leading to a terminology such as Gothic "style".

The Victoria and Albert Museum maintains an interactive online microsite with an introductory overview of ten architectural styles grouped in four clusters:

• Modern, High-Tech and Postmodern
• East Asian, South Asian and Spanish Islamic
• Gothic and Gothic Revival
• Classical and Classical Revival.

Pre-history to the present

• Neolithic architecture 10,000 BC-3000 BC
• Sumerian architecture 5300 BC-2000 BC
• Phoenician architecture 3,000 BC-500 AD
• Ancient Egyptian architecture 3000 BC-373 AD
• Classical architecture 600 BC-323 AD
• Ancient Greek architecture 776 BC-265 BC
• Roman architecture 753 BC–663 AD
• Herodian architecture 37 BC-4 BC Judea
• Architecture of Armenia (IVe s - XVIe s)
• Merovingian architecture 400s-700s France and Germany
• Anglo-Saxon architecture 450s-1066 England and Wales
• Byzantine architecture 527 (Sofia)-1520
• Islamic Architecture 691-present
• Carolingian architecture 780s-800s France and Germany
• Repoblación architecture 880s-1000s Spain
• Ottonian architecture 950s-1050s Germany
• Russian architecture 989-1700s
• Romanesque architecture 1000-1300
• Norman architecture 1074-1250
• Gothic architecture
• Early English Period c.1190—c.1250
• Decorated Period c.1290–c.1350
• Perpendicular Period c.1350–c.1550
• Brick Gothic c.1350–c.1400
• Isabelline Gothic 1474-1505 (reign) Spain
• Tudor style architecture 1485–1603
• Manueline 1495-1521 (reign) Portugal & colonies
• Spanish Colonial style 1520s–c.1550
• Elizabethan architecture (b.1533–d.1603)
• Dutch Colonial 1615-1674 (Treaty of Westminster) New England
• Palladian architecture 1616–1680 (Jones)
• Churrigueresque, 1660s-1750s. Spain and the New World
• English Baroque 1666 (Great Fire)–1713 (Treaty of Utrecht)
• Sicilian Baroque 1693 earthquake–c.1745
• Chilota architecture 1600-present Chiloé and southern Chile
• Ukrainian Baroque late 1600-1800s
• Georgian architecture 1720-1840s UK & USA
• American colonial architecture 1720-1780s USA
• Pombaline style 1755 earthquake-c.1860 Portugal
• Gothic Revival architecture 1760s–1840s
• List of Gothic Revival architecture
• Neoclassical architecture
• Adam style 1770 UK
• Federal architecture 1780-1830 USA
• Empire (style) 1804-1814, 1870 revival
• Jeffersonian architecture 1790s-1830s Virginia, USA
• Florida cracker architecture c.1800-present Florida, USA
• Italianate 1802
• Egyptian Revival architecture 1809–1820s, 1840s, 1920s
• American Empire (style) 1810
• Biedermeier 1815–1848
• Russian Revival 1826-1917, 1990s-present
• Tudorbethan architecture 1835–1885
• Victorian architecture 1837 and 1901 UK
• See also San Francisco architecture
• Jacobethan 1838
• Carpenter Gothic USA and Canada 1840s on
• Queenslander (architecture) 1840s–1960s
• Australian architectural styles
• Romanesque Revival architecture 1840–1900 USA
• Neo-Manueline 1840s-1910s Portugal & Brazil