The historic part of the city is on the UNESCO World Heritage List as " an outstanding urban and architectural ensemble " of the 18th century.

A number of pontifs are renowned for their urban planning in the city of Rome, but Alexander VII ’ s numerous urban interventions were not only diverse in scope and scale but demonstrated a consistent planning and architectural vision that the glorification and embellishment of the city, ancient and modern, sacred and secular, should be governed by order and decorum.

The various urban and architectural projects carried out during Alexander ’ s reign were recorded in engravings by Giovanni Battista Falda and the first volume was published in 1665.

Alexander took a keen personal interest in his urban and architectural projects and made notes of these in his diaries.

A strong demand for new residential and commercial areas drove to extreme urban expansion and architectural renewal, that has produced some of the major milestones in the city's architectural history, including Gio Ponti's Pirelli Tower ( 1956 – 60 ), Velasca Tower ( 1956 – 58 ), and the creation of brand new residential satellite towns, as well as huge amounts of low quality public housings.

The newest contribution to Bucharest's architecture took place after the fall of Communism, particularly after 2000, when the city went through a period of urban renewaland architectural revitalizationon the back of Romania's rapid economic growth.

The urban renewal process, which includes the reconstruction of the area around the Neumarkt square on which the Frauenkirche is situated, will continue for many decades, but public and government interest remains high, and there are numerous large projects underway — both historic reconstructions and modern plans — that will continue the city's recent architectural renaissance.

The architectural school of Christopher Alexander takes a deeper approach to emergence attempting to rewrite the process of urban growth itself in order to affect form, establishing a new methodology of planning and design tied to traditional practices, an Emergent Urbanism.

At the end of the 19th century new urban developments grew on Cappuccini Hill and to the south of the city, architecturally dominated by Eclecticism, Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles, which created a movement towards the hybrid experimentation of new local architectural styles, known as the Sassarese Liberty.

Lourenço Marques had always been a point of interest for artistic and architectural development since the first days of its urban expansion and this strong artistic spirit was responsible for attracting some of the world's most forward architects at the turn of the 20th century.

Hopper began painting urban and architectural scenes in a dark palette.

Among the Mesopotamian architectural accomplishments are the development of urban planning, the courtyard house, and ziggurats.

His loggia of the Palazzo degli Uffizi by the Arno opens up the vista at the far end of its long narrow courtyard, a unique piece of urban planning that functions as a public piazza, and which, if considered as a short street, is the unique Renaissance street with a unified architectural treatment.

The result of this is a stylistically homogeneous urban composition with a high level of architectural and landscape values.

Bordeaux has been inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage List as " an outstanding urban and architectural ensemble ".

Bordeaux is home to one of Europe's biggest 18th century architectural urban areas, making it a sought-after destination for tourists and cinema production crews.

Its graduate program in architecture accepts about 15 students each year, and it accepts about 4 – 5 doctoral students, focusing on subjects such as architectural theory and philosophy, bio-climate and energy conscious design, morphology, computer application, person-environment relations, housing, architectural history, and urban design.

Well-known recipients of the Prix de Rome included the architect Tony Garnier, who, instead of concentrating his studies on the ancient ruins, used his time at the Academy ( between 1899 and 1904 ) principally to develop his ideas for the development of a modern industrial city ( Une Cité Industrielle, published in 1918 ), a precursor of later modernist urban and architectural ideas of twentieth century architects such as Le Corbusier.

The City of Oslo promoted an architectural competition for a new Munch Museum in the area of Bjørvika, a new urban development were the Oslo Opera House is also located.

The architectural style of the capital city of ancient Rome was emulated by other urban centers under Roman control and influence, like the Verona Arena, Verona, Italy ; Arch of Hadrian, Athens, Greece ; Temple of Hadrian, Ephesos, Turkey ; a Theatre at Orange, France ; and at several other locations, for example, Lepcis Magna, located in Libya.

The discoveries made during this period, documented in the group's journal Viscosity, expanded the terrain of the psychogeographic into that of urban design and architectural performance.

This gives the town some distinctive urban character compared with other Argentine cities, despite the fact that the growing mass of tourists in the ' 60s imposed the construction of large apartment buildings and skyscrapers as the predominant architectural style downtown.

The influence of Vesalius ' plates representing the partial dissections of the human figure posing in a landscape setting is apparent in the anatomical plates prepared by the Baroque painter Pietro da Cortona ( 1596 – 1669 ), who executed anatomical plates with figures in dramatic poses, most with architectural or landscape backdrops.

Each piece in the place setting is decorated with a different pattern, the motifs derived from outstanding architectural elements found in the State Dining Room, East Room, and Diplomatic Reception Room.

These commissions offered him the opportunity to compose on a large scale in an architectural setting, much as had those masters he admired, Paolo Veronese, Tintoretto, and Rubens.

One of the most significant painters of Northern Italy was Andrea Mantegna, who decorated the interior of a room, the Camera degli Sposi for his patron Ludovico Gonzaga, setting portraits of the family and court into an illusionistic architectural space.

Troost, who like his successor, Speer, aimed to revive an early classical or Doric architecture, could not have found a more encouraging context for his endeavours than the neo classical architectural setting of Königsplatz.

The front shows Saint Helena meeting the pope in an architectural setting of Renaissance buildings and Italianate motifs.

In 1876, Saint-Gaudens received his first major commission: a monument to Civil War Admiral David Farragut, in New York's Madison Square ; his friend Stanford White designed an architectural setting for it, and when it was unveiled in 1881, its naturalism, its lack of bombast and its siting combined to make it a tremendous success, and Saint-Gaudens ' reputation was established.

The college he inherited was little more than the architectural remains of the colleges that had united to form Trinity, and he set about using both his personal wealth and influence to create a setting unrivalled in academic England.

A major late work, The Tepidarium ( 1853, in the Musée d ' Orsay ), depicts a large group of women drying themselves after bathing, in an architectural setting inspired by the artist's trip in 1840 to Pompeii.

He worked for some time at the architectural firm of Hubbell & Benes in Cleveland, Ohio, before setting up his own practice in New York City in 1923.

He is shown sitting on a marble throne, with a cushion, in an elaborate architectural setting, probably based on the scaenae frons of a Roman theatre-a common convention for Late Antique miniatures, coins and Imperial portraiture.

Hercules and the Ceryneian Hind, 19th-century painting by Adolf Schmidt ( artist ) | Adolf Schmidt in its architectural setting

The winning entry is converted from concept to construction and becomes the architectural setting for MoMA PS1's summer Warm Up music series.

The setting is often architectural, but may be a garden or, especially later, an open landscape.

The Bright Angel became a de facto model for subsequent National Park Service and Civilian Conservation Corps structures in the following years, influencing the look and feel of an entire architectural genre some call National Park Service rustic, and setting the precedent for using site materials and bold, large-scale design elements ( the use of native fieldstone and rough-hewn wood at the bottom of the Grand Canyon was deemed the only practical thing to do ).

* The central point of the hand clasping the swords is placed in front of the vanishing point of the perspective scheme, which is emphasized by the straight lines of the edges of the wall blocks and floor slabs of the architectural setting leading to it ( see schematic ).

For example, she used the architectural method of setting and solving design problems to create spaces with a unity of function and design, which met client needs.

It depicts a seemingly minimal architectural setting with several surrealist images in its finer details.

North of De Maisonneuve Boulevard, one can find many luxury boutiques and art galleries in a Victorian architectural setting.

Public buildings of the last quarter of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century provided an architectural setting for sculpture, especially in relief.

The architectural setting is more developed.

The behavior setting concept could be very useful in the field of architectural programming, architectural design, as well as in urban planning and design.

What in fact Lanci realised and promoted was that a false perspective coupled with a deliberately created illusionary architectural area, was the perfect dramatical setting.