Art and Architecture Connections
All connections part of Art and Architecture.
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| Architectural design competitions | Notable constructions (that are part of WHS) where the architectural design was chosen after a competition. | 14 |
| Art Deco | Art Deco buildings which are included in WHS inscriptions. Limited to: a. Significant buildings b. Buildings whose Art Deco credentials are referred to in the Inscription document or Advisory Body review |
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| Art Nouveau | WHS that contain significant buildings in the Art Nouveau style Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture and applied art, especially the decorative arts, known in different languages by different names: Jugendstil in German, Stile Liberty in Italian, Modernisme in Catalan, etc (wiki) |
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| Artists' houses | WHS that include residential houses that were homes of well-known artists. The houses must be open to visitors. | 7 |
| Baroque | 118 | |
| Bentheim Sandstone | Bad Bentheim is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany in the district of Grafschaft Bentheim on the borders of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Netherlands roughly 15 km south of Nordhorn and 20 km northeast of Enschede. Bentheim’s sandstone, known as Bentheimer Gold, which was quarried in the main town and Gildehaus, was shipped abroad beyond the old county’s borders between the 15th and 18th centuries and used for important buildings. (wiki) See also Bentheim Sandstone Museum |
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| Brick architecture | 118 | |
| Buildings designed by Czech architects outside the borders of Czechia | Includes works by Czech architects or those born in what now is Czechia. | 4 |
| Built in Laterite | Laterites are soil types rich in iron and aluminium, formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are rusty-red because of iron oxides. They develop by intensive and long-lasting weathering of the underlying parent rock. (wiki) | 9 |
| Carrara marble | Carrara marble is a type of white or blue-grey marble of high quality, popular for use in sculpture and building decor. It is quarried in the city of Carrara located in the northernmost tip of modern-day Tuscany, Italy. (wiki) | 22 |
| Cave dwellings | 16 | |
| Cave Temples or Churches | Built into natural caves with possible outside features and carving. | 22 |
| Chahar Bagh Gardens | " a Persian-style garden layout. The quadrilateral garden is divided by walkways or flowing water into four smaller parts In Persian, "Chār" means 'four' and "bāgh" means 'garden'." See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charbagh. | 10 |
| Chinese Garden | Chinese Gardens or Chinese Scholar's Gardens. "The design of Chinese gardens was to provide a spiritual utopia for one to connect with nature, to come back to one's inner heart, to come back to ancient idealism." (wiki) Chinese gardens have seventeen essential elements: 1) proximity to the home; 2) small; 3) walled; 4) small individual sections; 5) asymmetrical; 6) various types of spatial connections; 7) architecture; 8) rocks; 9) water; 10) trees; 11) plants; 12) sculpture; 13) jie jing (borrowed scenery); 14) chimes; 15) incense burners; 16) inscriptions; 17) use of feng shui for choosing site. |
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| Chinoiserie | Chinoiserie refers to a recurring theme in European artistic styles since the 17th century, which reflects Chinese art and is characterized by the use of fanciful imagery of an imaginary China. | 12 |
| Churrigueresque | Churrigueresque refers to a Spanish Baroque style of elaborate sculptural architectural ornament which emerged as a manner of stucco decoration in Spain in the late 17th century and was used up to about 1750, marked by extreme, expressive and florid decorative detailing, normally found above the entrance on the main facade of a building. (wiki) The style was named after José Benito de Churriguera, who appears to have been influenced by the highly decorated styles of Moorish architecture. |
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| Conical roofs | 21 | |
| Coral Masonry | 12 | |
| Cosmatesque | Cosmatesque, or Cosmati, is a style of geometric decorative inlay stonework typical of the architecture of Medieval Italy, and especially of Rome and its surroundings. It was used most extensively for the decoration of church floors, but was also used to decorate church walls, pulpits, and bishop's thrones. (wiki) | 7 |
| Created by Michelangelo | WHS that hold works by Michelangelo, excluding those in museums. | 5 |
| Curtain wall | WHS showing early (pre-1950) examples of a curtain wall, "an exterior covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, instead serving to protect the interior of the building from the elements". | 7 |
| Designed by André Le Nôtre | André Le Nôtre (12 March 1613 - 15 September 1700) was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. | 4 |
| Designed by Balthasar Neumann | Johann Balthasar Neumann (27 January 1687 (?) - 19 August 1753), usually known as Balthasar Neumann, was a German architect and military artillery engineer who developed a refined brand of Baroque architecture, fusing Austrian, Bohemian, Italian, and French elements to design some of the most impressive buildings of the period. (wiki) | 4 |
| Designed by Diogo de Boitaca | Diogo de Boitaca (c. 1460 - 1528?) was an influential architect and engineer of some of the most important Portuguese buildings, working in Portugal in the first half of the 16th century. (wiki) | 4 |
| Designed by Donato Bramante | Donato Bramante (1444 - 11 March 1514) was an Italian architect. He introduced Renaissance architecture to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his plan for St. Peter's Basilica formed the basis of design executed by Michelangelo. (wiki) | 3 |
| Designed by Galeazzo Alessi | Galeazzo Alessi (1512 – December 30, 1572) was an Italian architect from Perugia, known throughout Europe for his distinctive style based on his enthusiasm for ancient architecture. (wiki) | 3 |
| Designed by Gustave Eiffel | Works by the French structural engineer Alexandre Gustavo Eiffel | 6 |
| Designed by Hans Hendrik van Paesschen | Hans Hendrik van Paesschen (c. 1510-1582) was a Flemish architect, based in Antwerp, who designed high-style classical buildings in many countries of northern Europe. (wiki) | 4 |
| Designed by Jan Blazej Santini Aichel | Jan Blazej Santini Aichel (3 February 1677 – 7 December 1723) was a Czech architect of Italian descent, whose major works represent the unique Baroque Gothic style. (wiki) | 3 |
| Designed by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach | Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (20 July 1656 – 5 April 1723) was an Austrian architect, sculptor, and architectural historian whose Baroque architecture profoundly influenced and shaped the tastes of the Habsburg Empire. (wiki) | 4 |
| Designed by Jože Plečnik | Jože Plečnik (1872 – 1957) was a Slovene architect who had a major impact on the modern architecture of Vienna, Prague and of Ljubljana. (Wikipedia) | 3 |
| Designed by Juan Guas | Juan Guas (c. 1430-33 – c. 1496) was a Spanish artist and architect of French origin. He worked in a group of architects to create the Isabelline style. (wiki) | 4 |
| Designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart | Jules Hardouin-Mansart (16 April 1646 – 11 May 1708) was a French architect whose work is generally considered to be the apex of French Baroque architecture, representing the power and grandeur of Louis XIV. (wiki) | 6 |
| Designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel | Karl Friedrich Schinkel (13 March 1781 - 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, city planner, and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed both neoclassical and neogothic buildings. (wiki) | 4 |
| Designed by Lei family | WHS built or designed by members of the Lei family, a legendary architectural family who have been responsible for construction and restoration of imperial buildings during the Qing Dynasty. See this article for more about the Lei family's architects. |
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| Designed by Leon Battista Alberti | Leon Battista Alberti )February 14, 1404 – April 25, 1472) was an Italian humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomised the Renaissance Man. (wiki) | 4 |
| Designed by Luigi Vanvitelli | Luigi Vanvitelli (12 May 1700 – 1 March 1773) was an Italian engineer and architect. The most prominent 18th-century architect of Italy, he practised a sober classicizing academic Late Baroque style that made an easy transition to Neoclassicism. (wiki) | 5 |
| Designed by Michele Sanmicheli | Michele Sanmicheli 1484–1559), was a Venetian architect and urban planner of Mannerist-style, among the greatest of his era. (wiki) | 5 |
| Designed by Mimar Sinan | Koca Mi'mâr Sinân Âğâ ("Sinan the Architect") (c. 1489/1490 – July 17, 1588) was the chief Ottoman architect (Turkish: mimar) and civil engineer for sultans Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II, and Murad III. He was responsible for the construction of more than 300 major structures and other more modest projects. (wiki) | 6 |
| Designed by or influenced Le Corbusier | WHS connected with Le Corbusier a. Containing a building designed by him b. Visited by him and for which he did designs or which are regarded as having influenced him (with reference to his writings/drawings). |
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| Designed by Oscar Niemeyer | Oscar Niemeyer (born December 15, 1907) is a Brazilian architect who is considered one of the most important names in international modern architecture. | 6 |
| Designed by Peter Joseph Lenné | Gardens designed by Peter Joseph Lenné (1789 – 1866), a Prussian gardener and landscape architect. | 4 |
| Designed by Pirro Ligorio | Pirro Ligorio (c. 1512/1513 - 30 October 1583) was an Italian architect, painter, antiquarian, and garden designer during the Renaissance period. (wiki) | 4 |
| Designed by Vauban | Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban and later Marquis de Vauban (15 May 1633 - 30 March 1707), commonly referred to as Vauban, was a Marshal of France and the foremost military engineer of his age, famed for his skill in both designing fortifications and in breaking through them. He also advised Louis XIV on how to consolidate France's borders, to make them more defensible. | 6 |
| Designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi | Vincenzo Scamozzi (2 September 1548 – 7 August 1616) was an Italian architect and a writer on architecture. (wiki) | 4 |
| Designed by Walter Gropius | Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. (Wiki) | 3 |
| Domes | Significant domed buildings | 73 |
| Double chapel | The double chapel, sometimes double church, is a chapel or church building with two storeys that either have a central aperture enabling their simultaneous use for services or are completely separate, just connected by a staircase, and used for different liturgical functions. (wiki) | 6 |
| Double Helix | A double helix is a pair of congruent geometrical helices with the same axis, differing by a translation along the axis. Like the dominant structure of DNA. This connection is about WHS that display the double helix in architecture and engineering. |
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| Dravidian Architecture | Dravidian architecture was a style of architecture that emerged thousands of years ago in the Southern part of the Indian subcontinent or South India, built by the Dravidian peoples. It consists primarily of pyramid shaped temples called Kovils in Tamil which are dependent on intricate carved stone in order to create a step design consisting of many statues of deities, warriors, kings, and dancers. (wiki) | 10 |
| Dry Stone Construction | Buildings constructed of stone held together without mortar or similar. The stones may be "worked" or "rough". "Walls" not currently or originally part of a building are excluded. | 35 |
| Early Modernism | WHS that are described as examples of early Modernism or foreshadowing Modernism in the Official description or the AB Evaluation. | 10 |
| Early Under-floor Heating | Ondol heating - The ondol floor was made from packed earth covered in paper. Hot smoke was then passed along channels beneath the floor to heat the room. Ondol floors were used in rooms of the main living quarters. Every private residence of traditional Korea, no matter how humble, was equipped with a heated ondol floor and a kitchen for cooking, which was essential during Korea's cold winters. Kang bed-stove heating - The Kang is a traditional long (2 meters or more) sleeping platform made of bricks or other forms of fired clay and more recently of concrete in some locations. Its interior cavity, leading to a flue, channels the exhaust from a wood or coal stove. Typically, a kang occupies one-third to one half the area the room, and is used for sleeping at night and for other activities during the day. A kang which covers the entire floor is called a dikang, di meaning "floor". Hypocaust heating - A hypocaust was an ancient Roman system of underfloor heating, used to heat houses with hot air. Many examples of such hypocausts exist in villa and house foundations in Roman centres in Germany and England. The usual custom was to lead the hot air from a hypocaust into a single vertical flue in the wall of the room to be heated, through which the hot air and smoke escaped into the open air. Where greater warmth was desired, several flues would lead up from the hypocaust in the side walls of the room; at times these wall flues consisted of hollow, oblong tiles, set close together, entirely around the room. Requirements: - Not solely associated with baths - Constructed before 750 AD |
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| Earth Architecture | An earth structure is a building or other structure made largely from soil. Includes adobe or mud-brick buildings. | 42 |
| English garden | The term "English garden" or "English park" is used in Continental Europe for a large-scale landscape garden with its origins in the English landscape gardens of the 18th century. | 34 |
| Exhibition gardens | WHS that include gardens or grounds that were designed for an international exhibition or to house exhibitions. | 4 |
| Expressionist architecture | Expressionist architecture was an architectural movement that developed in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts that especially developed and dominated in Germany. (wiki) | 11 |
| Faux marble | WHS where Faux marble techniques include marbleizing, scagliola and marmorino were used (on a larger scale). |
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| French (formal) garden | Features of a formal garden: - terrace - topiary - statuary - hedge - bosquet - parterre - sylvan theater - pergola - pavilion - landscaping |
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| Garden City Movement | The garden city movement is a method of urban planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom. Garden cities were intended to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by "greenbelts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and agriculture. (wiki) Further reading: - The German Garden City Movement (1902-1931) |
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| Geomancy | WHS which contain an example of "Geomancy" in their physical design, layout or in situ artwork. The generic term "Geomancy" encompasses the adoption of such practices across all cultures and is not limited to e.g Feng Shui. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomancy | 20 |
| Georgian Architecture | Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It was widely disseminated in the English colonies of the time. | 12 |
| Gesamtkunstwerk | WHS considered to be a "Gesamtkunstwerk" ( a work of art that uses all or many art forms or tries to do so). The term must appear in the official site documentation (description, AB ev or nom file). | 11 |
| Glazed tiles | 56 | |
| Gold Surfaces | Buildings which have a significant amount of Gold leaf on their external surfaces. | 52 |
| Gothic | 89 | |
| Gothic Revival | The Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or Neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England. Its popularity grew rapidly in the early nineteenth century, when increasingly serious and learned admirers of neo-Gothic styles sought to revive medieval forms, in contrast to the neoclassical styles prevalent at the time. In parallel to the ascendancy of neo-Gothic styles in nineteenth-century England, interest spread rapidly to the continent of Europe, in Australia, South Africa and to the Americas. |
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| Greco-Buddhist Art | WHS that hold examples considered (and sometimes debated) to be Greco-Buddhist Art. "Greco-Buddhism denotes a supposed cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism developed between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD in Gandhara, in present-day Pakistan and parts of north-east Afghanistan.... While the Greco-Buddhist art shows clear Hellenistic influences, the majority of scholars do not assume a noticeable Greek influence on Gandharan Buddhism beyond the artistic realm." (wiki) |
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| Grotesques | In art, grotesques are a decorative form of arabesques with interlaced garlands and strange animal figures. | 14 |
| Hyperboloid Structure | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperboloid_structure | 6 |
| Hypostyle | WHS containing "Hypostyle" structures. "The word hypostyle comes from the Ancient Greek ὑπόστυλος hypóstȳlos meaning "under columns".... The roof may be constructed with bridging lintels of stone, wood or other rigid material such as cast iron, steel or reinforced concrete" Wiki). The term is used most strictly for buildings in which the roof is supported solely by Columns/Pillars without use of arches, vaults, buttresses or domes. It is, however, also used more widely where the main structure is still primarily supported by a "forest" of pillars holding up the roof, albeit with some "secondary" arching (e,g to allow a higher ceiling by preventing bending of the columns in the middle). Thus "In many mosques, especially the early congregational mosques the prayer hall has the hypostyle form" (Wiki). These, less strict uses of the term, are allowed where the structure is widely described as a "Hypostyle" but a reputable quote using the word should be provided. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostyle |
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| Ideal City | The utopian concept of an Ideal City originates in Antiquity, and was often used in the Renaissance and later on providing better living conditions for factory workers e.a. | 29 |
| Indo-Islamic architecture | Indo-Islamic architecture encompasses a wide range of styles from various backgrounds that helped shape the architecture of the Indian subcontinent from the advent of Islam in the Indian subcontinent around the 7th century. It has left influences on modern Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi architecture. Both secular and religious buildings are influenced by Indo-Islamic architecture which exhibit Indian, Persian, Arab, and Turkish themes. (wiki) Characteristics include traditional Indian decoration and tomb architecture. | 13 |
| Indo-Saracenic architecture | WHS that include example of Indo-Saracenic architecture. Indo-Saracenic architecture (also known as Indo-Gothic, Mughal-Gothic, Neo-Mughal) is characterized by the use of onion domes, minarets etc. They were mostly public edifices, built by the British Raj in the 19th century. | 4 |
| International style | Major architectural style originating in the 1920s and 1930s | 14 |
| Iron Structures | WHS made significantly of "Cast" or "Wrought" Iron. | 10 |
| Isabelline style | Architectural style created during the joint reign of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile (ca. 1480-1510) | 5 |
| Italian Architects outside Italy | 33 | |
| Italian fascist architecture | 5 | |
| Italian Renaissance garden | The Italian Renaissance garden was a new style of garden which emerged in the late 15th century at villas in Rome and Florence, inspired by classical ideals of order and beauty, and intended for the pleasure of the view of the garden and the landscape beyond, for contemplation, and for the enjoyment of the sights, sounds and smells of the garden itself. In the late Renaissance, the gardens became larger, grander and more symmetrical, and were filled with fountains, statues, grottoes, water organs and other features designed to delight their owners and amuse and impress visitors. The style was imitated throughout Europe, influencing the gardens of the French Renaissance and the English garden. (wiki_ |
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| Japanese garden | 11 | |
| Made out of basaltic material | Cultural WHS that were made using cut basalt rocks, including the basaltic dolerite and tezontle. | 12 |
| Mannerism | Mannerism is a period of European painting, sculpture, architecture and decorative arts lasting from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520 until the arrival of the Baroque around 1600. | 21 |
| Manueline style | Manueline, or Portuguese late Gothic is a Portuguese style of architectural ornamentation of the first decades of the 16th century, incorporating maritime elements and representations of the voyages of discovery. | 15 |
| Medina | A medina quarter is a distinct city section found in many North African cities. The medina is typically walled, contains many narrow and maze-like streets. The word "medina" itself simply means "city" or "town" in modern day Arabic. (wiki) | 16 |
| Modern Urban Planning | WHS dating from the late 19th, 20th or 21st century, where "Town Planning" or "Urban Planning" are cited (using those phrases) in the Statement of OUV, Criteria or description. | 22 |
| Moorish architecture | WHS that contain significant examples of architecture of the Islamic West (also known as 'Moorish'). Moorish architecture is a style within Islamic architecture that developed in the western Islamic world, including al-Andalus (on the Iberian peninsula) and what is now Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia (part of the Maghreb). It became a unique style over centuries with recognizable features such as the horseshoe arch, riad gardens (courtyard gardens with a symmetrical four-part division), square (cuboid) minarets, and elaborate geometric and arabesque motifs in wood, stucco, and tilework (notably zellij). Over time, this western style made increasing use of surface decoration while also retaining a tradition of focusing attention on the interior of buildings rather than their exterior. Unlike Islamic architecture further east, this style did not make prominent use of large vaults and domes. |
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| Moorish revival | 19th century style inspired by Turkish Ottoman and Andalusian buildings | 12 |
| Mosaic art | 82 | |
| Mudejar style | Vernacular style of Iberian architecture and decoration, strongly influenced by Moorish taste and workmanship. Used in the Iberian Christian kingdoms, primarily between the 13th and 16th centuries. | 23 |
| Multiple Works of a single architect | WHS consisting solely of "oeuvres" designed by a single architect. Excluding town/city plans where an architect created the over-arching concept but not all the structures within. | 7 |
| Muqarnas | Muqarnas are a form of architectural ornamented vaulting, the "geometric subdivision of a squinch, or cupola, or corbel, into a large number of miniature squinches, producing a sort of cellular structure", sometimes also called "honeycomb" vaults from their resemblance to these. They are used for domes, and especially half-domes in entrances and apses, mostly in traditional Islamic and Persian architecture. When some elements project downwards, the style may be called mocárabe; these are reminiscent of stalactites, and may be called "stalactite vaults". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqarnas |
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| Neo-Baroque | WHS containing Neo-Baroque architecture.- Defined as architecture which displays important aspects of Baroque style, but is not from the Baroque period proper: i.e., the 17th and 18th centuries. With date of construction and Architect. | 5 |
| Neoclassical architecture | 77 | |
| No Nails | Buildings constructed without the use of nails. | 5 |
| Norman architecture | 6 | |
| Octagons | Sites that have an octagonal shape (eight sides) | 83 |
| Palaeologan Renaissance | WHS containing significant examples of Palaeologan Renaissance art, specifically mosaics and frescoes. The Palaeologan Renaissance was the final period in the development of Byzantine art. Coinciding with the reign of the Palaiologoi, the last dynasty to rule the Byzantine Empire (1261–1453). The fall of Constantinople in 1453 was a significant event in the history of the Byzantine Empire, and it had a profound impact on the art world. Many Byzantine artists and intellectuals migrated to Italy, where they played a vital role in shaping the Italian Renaissance." - wiki | 6 |
| Palladio and Palladian style | Andrea Palladio was a 16th century Italian architect. The Palladian style, named after him, is based on symmetry, perspective and classical Greek and Roman temple architecture. | 18 |
| Parkitecture | WHS connected with the Architectural style known as "National Park Service Rustic" "also colloquially known as Parkitecture, is a style of architecture that arose in the United States National Park System to create buildings that harmonized with their natural environment. Since its founding, the National Park Service consistently has sought to provide visitor facilities without visually interrupting the natural or historic scene. The structures are characterized by intensive use of hand labor and rejection of the regularity and symmetry of the industrial world, reflecting its connections with the Arts and Crafts Movement. Architects, landscape architects and engineers combined native wood and stone with convincingly native styles to create visually appealing structures that seemed to fit naturally within the majestic landscapes. Examples of the style can be found in numerous types of National Park structures, including entrance gateways, park roads and bridges, visitor centers, trail shelters, hotels and lodges, and even maintenance and support facilities. Many of these buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places" (Wiki) | 5 |
| Plateresque | Plateresque, meaning "in the manner of a silversmith", was an artistic movement, especially architectural, traditionally held to be exclusive to Spain and its territories, which appeared between the late Gothic and early Renaissance in the late 15th century, and spread over the next two centuries. The style is characterized by ornate decorative facades covered with floral designs, chandeliers, festoons, fantastic creatures and all sorts of configurations. (wiki) | 12 |
| Pre-Romanesque | "Pre-Romanesque" is an architectural style from Western Europe, which preceded the beginning of the Romanesque period in the 11th century (ca. 5th-10th centuries). It is characterized by the introduction and absorption of classical Mediterranean and Christian forms with Germanic ones, creating innovative new forms. | 17 |
| Reinforced Concrete | Masterworks made of reinforced concrete. | 36 |
| Renaissance | 70 | |
| Replicas within the WHS | WHS where a significant element (statue or artwork etc) has been replaced (in situ exactly) by a replica to replace the original. Indicate where the original is to be found. | 5 |
| Restored by anastylosis | The intent of anastylosis is to reconstruct historical architectural monuments which have collapsed from the original material. This is done by placing components back in their original place. | 24 |
| Restored by Viollet-le-Duc | Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was a French architect and theorist, famous for his "restorations" of medieval buildings. | 8 |
| Rock Cut Architecture | Structures carved in situ into 'living rock' which are not primarily based on natural caves even though in India and China these are often referred to as being 'caves'. | 29 |
| Rococo | Rococo is a style of 18th century French art and interior design. | 39 |
| Romanesque | 67 | |
| Sgraffito | Sgraffito is a decoration technique produced by applying layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colors to a moistened surface. | 6 |
| Significant frescoes removed and displayed at a museum | WHS where Significant frescoes have been removed and are now displayed at a museum | 3 |
| Sites from antiquity with identified architects | WHS (or significant parts thereof) dating from Antiquity (before 476 AD), where a named architect is known as responsible for the design. | 11 |
| Spolia | Spolia is the re-use of earlier building material or decorative sculpture on new monuments. Only re-use after Antiquity is included. | 29 |
| Square Kufic | Square Kufic is a form of Arabic Calligraphy. See more at this link |
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| Star fort | A star fort, bastion fort or trace italienne, is a fortification in a style that evolved during the age of gunpowder when the cannon came to dominate the battlefield. It was first seen in the mid-15th century in Italy. ... the star fortress was a very flat structure composed of many triangular bastions, specifically designed to cover each other, and a ditch. (wiki) | 21 |
| Steel-Framed construction | Individually inscribed or a significant element of a wider site. | 8 |
| Sudano-Sahelian architecture | Sudano-Sahelian architecture refers to a range of similar indigenous architectural styles common to the African peoples of the Sahel and Sudanian grassland (geographical) regions of West Africa, south of the Sahara, but north of the fertile forest regions of the coast. This style is characterized by the use of mudbricks and adobe plaster, with large wooden-log support beams that jut out from the wall face for large buildings such as mosques or palaces. (wiki) | 6 |
| Temenos | A temenos enclosed a sacred space called a hieron. It was usually surrounded by a wall, ditch, or line of stones. All things inside of the demarkated area belonged to the designated god. (wiki) | 4 |
| Tetraconch | A tetraconch, from the Greek for "four shells", is a building, usually a church or other religious building, with four apses, one in each direction, usually of equal size. The basic ground plan of the building is therefore a Greek cross. (wiki) | 6 |
| Timber framing | Timber framing (German: Fachwerk) is the method of creating structures using heavy timbers jointed together with various joints. It is an architectural style common in Germany, France, the UK and Holland. | 22 |
| Timurid Architecture | WHS that include examples of Timurid Architecture. Timurid architecture was an important stage in the architectural history of Iran and Central Asia during the late 14th and 15th centuries. Their architecture is distinguished by its grand scale, luxurious decoration in tilework, and sophisticated geometric vaulting. (wiki) |
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| Urban fabric | Historic center WHS which mention "urban fabric" (or "tissu urbain" in French) in their OUV statement. | 22 |
| Vernacular architecture | Vernacular architecture is a term used to categorize methods of construction which use locally available resources and traditions to address local needs and circumstances. Vernacular architecture tends to evolve over time to reflect the environmental, cultural and historical context in which it exists. (wiki) | 98 |
| Vienna Secession | The Vienna Secession (German: Wiener Secession) is an art movement, closely related to Art Nouveau, that was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian painters, graphic artists, sculptors and architects. (Wikipedia). | 3 |
| Wooden architecture | Buildings constructed totally or mainly out of wood. | 92 |