Do you think most of today's styles come from past styles?

The historic center of town is filled with gardens public buildings and churches based on past architectural styles.

They were repeating past styles or just focusing on appearance.

But there were also new twists on past styles.

The modern period is seen here as finite, a past style.

Rather than lock them in a vault, he allowed his students to use them to learn past styles and methods.

At first, it all looks derivative of past styles.

A 20th-century architect who is free to pick and choose among past styles has literally stepped out of line.

They incorporate past and distant forms of knowledge the way other art uses past styles.

In Postmodernist literature this can be an homage to or a parody of past styles.