Surf these sites: Period and Style for Designers -- An extensive collection of images organized by period, providing designers with examples of architectural, decorative and furniture styles. By Professor Hugh Lester of Tulane University, US. Plateresque -- Article from Encyclopędia Britannica on the main architectural style in Spain during the late 15th and the 16th centuries, also used in Spain''s American colonies. The Transformation of Nostalgia: European Architectural Theory of the 1880s -- Proposal for a book by Dr James Duncan Berry, on ''one of the most fertile, prolific and engaging episodes in the history of architectural theory''. Synopsis with illustrations, footnotes and bibliography.
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