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The styles that resulted fall within the broad categories of PalladianI Quattro Libri dell'Architettura in a modestly-priced English translation published in London, 1736. Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture originally designed by the Italian architect Andrea Palladio ( 1508 1580). Today, any building— and its whimsical alternatives, GothicBesides its original meaning, "of or relating to the Goths, a Germanic tribe" and thus the Gothic language and the Gothic alphabet, and aside from its Early Modern connotations of "rough, barbarous," the word Gothic has been used since the 18th century to and ChinoiserieChinoiserie refers to an artistic style which reflects Chinese influence and is characterized through the use of elaborate decoration and intricate patterns. Its popularity peaked around the middle of the 18th century. The term is also used in garden desi that were the English-speaking world's equivalent of European RococoRococo Furniture Style. The Rococo style developed as a relief from formalities of Late Baroque interiors. It probably received its name among young assistants in the atelier of the neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David, who used the word whimsically t styles— and, from the mid-1760s, the range of NeoclassicalNeoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism is the name given to quite distinct movements in the visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture. These movements were in effect at various times between the 18th and the modes associated with the British architects Robert AdamRobert Adam ( 3 July 1728 3 March 1792) was a Scottish architect, interior designer and furniture designer, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. He was the second son of William Adam (1689-1748) of Maryburgh, Fife, a stonemason and architect of some note, a, Sir William ChambersSir William Chambers ( 1723- 1796) was a Scottish architect, (though born in Stockholm where his father was a merchant). Between 1740 and 1749 he was employed by the Swedish East India Company making several voyages to China where he studied Chinese archi, James WyattJames Wyatt ( 1746- 1813), was a British architect, the sixth son of Benjamin Wyatt of Weeford. Very little is known of his early life, except that he spent six years in Italy, whither he appears to have gone in 1762 in company with Richard Bagot, a Staff, Henry Holland and Sir John Soane. Greek Revival was added to the design repertory, after about 1800. See also: Georgian Dublin.

In the American colonies, the neo-Palladian style is associated with ' colonial Georgian ' and the neo-classical styles broadly with 'Federal' building styles.

Georgian architecture was disseminated as much through the medium of engravings as it was through the direct experiences of the apprenticeship system. The Georgian styles were also assimilated into an architectural vernacular.

After about 1840, a wider repertory of design alternatives, including Gothic Revival, enlarged the repertory, and the Georgian conventions were slowly abandoned, in a welter of Revival styles .