Definition of "architectural style" []

• Architecture as a kind of art form (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "In the third dream, I would be strolling through a house, a large and beautifully designed building whose architectural style changed every time — Mediaeval stone one night and modern steel-and-glass the next, Elizabethan half-timbered or nineteenth-century brick terrace."
• "In this part of Boston-even on my own street, Beacon Street-the architectural style is most often plain; the buildings, whether designed as places of business or family dwellings, are flat-fronted and without ornament, save for the occasional pediment or pilaster."
• "The Bilbao Guggenheim is barely a decade old, so it is much too early to know how its idiosyncratic architectural style will age, aesthetically and functionally, although its current popularity is incontestable."