Throughout history, it has been observed how architecture and urbanism have been participants of relevant events in different cultures, to such a degree of being a benchmark of study. For this reason, the objective of this article aims to analyze two works at an urban and architectural scale were developed in distant cultures, under diverse processes and times. This study seeks to understand the similarities and differences between them, under the key term that relates them, which is public space. The scope of the study was limited to documentary research carried out by the authors with information from scientific publications and articles from certified organizations in the field. The article encompasses St. Peter’s Square as a religious public space and the Naqsh-e Jahan Square as multicultural public space, through its backgrounds, its immediate environments, and its surrounding architecture. While most of the details indicate a vast amount of contrast, it was possible to find specific similarities. Therefore, as a conclusion, the exhibition of correlatively positive or negative data is intended to allow us to know that the idea of time is intrinsic to architecture and communicates through it.
