The Islamic Design Module in Latin America
Subtitle: Proportionality and the Techniques of Neo-Mudejar Architecture
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780786418060
Subjects: Architecture; Islamic studies; Islamic Architecture; Architecture Of Specific Structures; Latin America; International Architecture - General; Architecture, Colonial; Design & Drafting; Composition, proportion, etc; Mudejar influences; Mudâejar influences
Description: "This study analyzes the distinctive look of Hispanic architecture. Its triangulate format, originated in Islamic Spain, was based on techniques once used by journeyman designers and simple artisans. Spain was the only European transatlantic colonial power to have once been occupied by Islamic overlords. Spain's Conquistadors took their traditional building methods to Latin America." "Grounded in historical and physical data, the research is partially drawn from four practical builders' manuals: two seventeenth-century Spanish ones and two Mexican ones from ca. 1640 and 1800. In an appendix, Viollet-le-Duc (a major nineteenth-century architect) explains architectural proportionality and the design function of the Pythagorean Triangle."--BOOK JACKET.