The Vandelay collection
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38 collections with buildings · 187 unique buildings
Three of our largest style collections, each with examples to compare.
Berlin Modernist architecture explores new ways of building and living through open plans, expressive structures and materials such as concrete, steel and glass. Compare the different forms those ideas take in our collection.
New National Gallery | Neue Nationalgalerie
Warsaw Brutalist architecture takes its name from béton brut — raw concrete — and makes the material itself the building's primary expression.
Smolna 8
Berlin Contemporary architecture resists a single definition — it is the architecture of the present moment, drawing on digital tools, sustainable imperatives, and a willingness to hybridise materials and forms.
Am Lokdepot
A style describes an architectural language; an approach describes how a building is designed; a building type describes its use. Our catalogue includes all three. A building may belong to several collections.
38 collections
Art Nouveau architecture dissolves the boundary between structure and ornament — buildings become organisms where ironwork, ceramics, and carved stone flow in sinuous, plant-derived forms.
Babylon Kino
Bauhaus architecture emerged from the school founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 — a fusion of art, craft, and technology that sought to redesign everyday life.
Bauhaus Archiv-Museum
Brutalist architecture takes its name from béton brut — raw concrete — and makes the material itself the building's primary expression.
Smolna 8
Contemporary architecture resists a single definition — it is the architecture of the present moment, drawing on digital tools, sustainable imperatives, and a willingness to hybridise materials and forms.
Am Lokdepot
Deconstructivist architecture dismantles the conventions of form, geometry, and structural logic.
Argos
Expressionist architecture subordinates function to emotion — buildings become sculptural statements, their forms driven by drama, symbolism, and the architect's personal vision rather than structural logic.
Berlin Philharmonic
Flemish traditional architecture draws on the building customs of Flanders — stepped gables, brick construction, tall narrow facades, and decorative brickwork patterns that evolved over centuries of urban building in the Low Countries.
Intellect Bookshop
Functionalist architecture reduces buildings to their essential purpose — form follows function with minimal concession to aesthetics.
Smolna 8
Futurist architecture imagines the built environment as dynamic, technological, and forward-looking — buildings that appear to belong to a time that hasn't arrived yet.
Ilinden (memorial)
Gründerzeit architecture defines the urban fabric of Berlin, Vienna, Prague, and other Central European cities — the dense residential blocks built during the industrial boom of 1871–1914.
The Tile House
Heimatstil (Homeland Style) emerged in late 19th-century Germany as a regionalist reaction against industrial standardisation and urban Historicism.
Lentze settlement
High-tech architecture turns structure and services inside out, exposing the building's mechanical systems as its primary visual language.
Copenhill | Amager Bakke
Historicist architecture revives and recombines elements from past styles — Renaissance palazzi, Gothic cathedrals, Baroque churches, Moorish palaces — often within a single building.
The Tile House
The International Style codified Modernism into a set of formal principles: volume over mass, regularity over symmetry, and the elimination of applied ornament.
Cité de Refuge
Italian Rationalism emerged in the late 1920s as Italy's contribution to the European Modern Movement — a synthesis of classical proportion, Mediterranean materiality, and Modernist spatial ideas.
Residential and commercial complex at Corso Italia
Jugendstil — the German and Northern European expression of Art Nouveau — dissolved rigid architectural forms into flowing, organic lines inspired by natural growth.
The Tile House
Minimalist architecture reduces building to its absolute essence — pure geometry, restrained materials, and the elimination of everything non-essential.
Amsterdam Centre for Architecture | ARCAM
Modernist architecture explores new ways of building and living through open plans, expressive structures and materials such as concrete, steel and glass. Compare the different forms those ideas take in our collection.
New National Gallery | Neue Nationalgalerie
Nazi neoclassicism was the official architectural style of the Third Reich (1933–1945) — a deliberate instrumentalisation of stripped classical forms to project power, permanence, and racial ideology.
Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus
Neoclassicist architecture revives the formal language of Greek and Roman antiquity — symmetry, columns, pediments, and proportional systems derived from classical orders.
Haus Perls
Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) emerged in 1920s Germany as architecture stripped of Expressionist emotion — sober, functional, and socially engaged.
Babylon Kino
Neues Bauen (New Building) was the German architectural movement of the 1920s and early 1930s that applied industrial methods and social ideals to the housing crisis.
Horseshoe settlement
Organic architecture seeks harmony between human habitation and nature, creating buildings whose forms appear to grow from their sites rather than being imposed upon them.
Cabbages of Créteil | Choux de Créteil
Modernist austerity dominated architecture for decades — then Postmodernism reintroduced colour, ornament, and historical reference.
Aillaud Towers
Socialist Classicism — also called Stalinist architecture or Socialist Realism in architecture — is the monumental style imposed across the Soviet Union and its satellite states from the 1930s through the mid-1950s.
Heizkraftwerk Rüdersdorfer Straße
Stalinist architecture is the monumental building style of the Soviet Union under Stalin (1930s–1950s), characterised by imposing scale, classical ornamentation, and an ideological programme that used architecture to project the power and permanence of the socialist state.
Broadcasting Centre Berlin
Structuralist architecture organises buildings as flexible frameworks of repeating spatial units — like a city in miniature where individual rooms or zones can be adapted without disrupting the whole.
Monte Amiata Housing Complex
Traditional Bavarian architecture reflects the Alpine building culture of southern Germany — timber-framed upper storeys over masonry ground floors, deep overhanging eaves, balconies with carved railings, and painted facades (Lüftlmalerei).
Haus zum Husaren
Adaptive reuse transforms buildings from one purpose to another while preserving their original character — industrial shells become galleries, factories become residences, bunkers become cultural centres.
Antivilla
Contextual Integration (Contextualism) is an approach to architecture that prioritises harmony with the existing built environment — matching scales, materials, rhythms, and sight lines rather than imposing an autonomous form.
Berlin Metropolitan School
Green architecture integrates environmental performance into the building's core design — not as an afterthought but as a generative principle.
Berlin Metropolitan School
Parametric design uses algorithmic processes and computational tools to generate building forms that respond to measurable inputs — structural loads, solar exposure, wind patterns, programme distribution.
The Blue Planet (Den Blå Planet)
Facility architecture encompasses buildings designed for specialised technical or institutional functions — research laboratories, data centres, water treatment plants, power stations, and other infrastructure where the building's form is dictated almost entirely by its operational requirements.
Bergisel Ski Jump
Industrial architecture in the catalogue represents buildings designed for production, research, and infrastructure — factories, power plants, laboratories — where the programme dictates the form.
AEG turbine factory
Monuments in the architectural catalogue are structures whose primary purpose is commemorative or symbolic rather than functional — memorials, observation towers, triumphal structures, and sculptural landmarks that mark events, ideals, or collective memory in the built landscape.
Ilinden (memorial)
Private houses in the catalogue are architectural experiments at the domestic scale — one-off commissions where architects tested ideas that would later influence larger projects.
Antivilla
Residential architecture in the catalogue covers buildings designed primarily for housing — from experimental single-family villas to mass social housing estates.
Am Lokdepot
Sacred architecture in the catalogue spans from mid-century Modernist chapels to 21st-century monumental churches — buildings where architectural form serves spiritual experience.
Basilica Santuario Madonna delle Lacrime
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About the catalogue
Vandelay brings together selected buildings, their architects and architectural themes. Some collections contain many examples; others offer one place to start. Counts describe the catalogue and each building is counted once in the total above.
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