neo-Libertyn.
/ˌniːəʊˈlɪbəti/, U.S. /ˌnioʊˈlɪbərdi/ A movement or style in architecture and design originating in Italy in the 1950s as a revival of art nouveau and in reaction to the functional International style.
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transition1730
pasticcio1750
symmetrophobia1809
rococo1835
flamboyantism1846
collegiate Gothic1851
vernacular architecture1857
Neo-Grec1867
modernism1879
wedding-cake1879
Queen Anne1883
Colonial Revival1889
Chicago school1893
Dutch colonial1894
English colonial1894
monumentalism1897
vernacular1910
international style1911
Churrigueresque1913
postmodernism1914
prairie style1914
rationalism1918
lavatory style1919
functionalism1924
Mudéjar1927
façadism1933
open plan1938
Wrenaissance1942
pseudo1945
brutalism1953
open planning1958
neo-Liberty1959
Queen Annery1966
Jugendstil1967
moderne1968
strip architecture1976
high-tech1978
1959 tr. A. Pica Recent Ital. Archit. p. xxxiv To ‘neo-Liberty’ [It. neoliberty] and neo-Gothic there is now the risk of being added..plain imitation..of antique styles.
1959 Archit. Rev. 125 232/2 Paolo Portoghesi seems to have been the first to call the style of the Retreat by the apt term ‘Neoliberty’ as late as the end of 1958.
1961 Listener 16 Feb. 300/1 There is Neo-Liberty in Italy, there is quite a lot of Neo-Gaudí, and there is Neo-Expressionism.
1989 Lighting Design Nov. 24/1 Italy was emerging from a decade of the ‘neo-liberty’ style in furniture, harking back to the turn of the century.
2001 Guardian 28 Feb. i. 22/4 This was an emotive, anti-rational approach that became known as ‘neoliberty’; and was characterised by Charles Jencks..as a revolt against the machine aesthetic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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