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| 1. The highly social and comprehensive art of architecture, in its styles and construction methods, embodies the deepest values of the culture and society that produced it. |
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| 2. Emphasizing rational order, simple geometric forms, harmonization of parts, and emotional restraint, the classical style arose in ancient Greece and Rome and continues in many variations to the present. |
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| 3. Emphasizing verticality, upward-striving forms, variety and compexity, the Gothic arose during the Middle Ages and continues in many variations to the present. |
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| 4. Emphasizing streamlined geometric forms, an abstract "machine aesthetic," and the utilitarian principle of "form follows function," the modern style is a product of the Industrial Revolution and dominated twentieth-century architecture. |
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| 5. Emphasizing historical decoration, symbolism, and sensitivity to the surrounding built and natural environment, the post-modern style arose in the last decades of the twentieth century as a reaction to and rival of the modern. |