Stylistic Eras: Facade Greening Then and Now

When greening a facade, questions of style arise sooner or later: which plants and climbing systems are appropriate? The answers depend a lot on the age of the building in question, that is why this article is about greening in different eras.

Beginnings

Earliest traces of facade greening

Romanesque & Gothic

Middle Ages: circa 800–1500

Renaissance & Baroque

circa 1500–1770

Classicism

circa 1770–1840

Historicism

circa 1850–1914

Garden City Movement

circa 1900–1940

New/Modern Construction

"Bauhaus" style from circa 1920

Monument Protection

Greening old and historic houses

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