The Islamic design module in Latin America : proportionality and the techniques of neo-Mudéjar architecture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Moffitt, John F. (John Francis), 1940-2008
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2004]
Subjects:	Architecture > Latin America. Architecture, Colonial > Latin America > Mudéjar influences. Architecture > Composition, proportion, etc. Building > Technique.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Hispanic versus European architectural principles
The grid and its role in Islamic design-by-geometry
A graphic analysis of the geometric procedures generating the "Arabic interlace"
The installation of Islamic architectural design-by-geometry in Spain
The "secret" of the Hispanic masons : the inscribed Pythagorean-triangle motif
The evidence for "inscribed figures" in architectural design
The physical execution of the Hispanic facade : "design-by-string"
The evidence for Pythagorean triangulation in the design of Tepotzotlán
Other Christian examples of Hispanic design-by-Pythagorean-triangulation
The graphic evidence for "regulating line-patterns" with Pythagorean triangulation in Hispanic architecture
Juan de Herrera and the evidence for Pythagorean triangulation in the Escorial
Ocotlán : another Mexican example of "design-by-triangulation-and-string"
The historical evidence for "design-by-string" and with grids
The non-visual, or textual evidence for Hispanic "design-by-triangulation-and-string"
Vitruvius : theoretician-or artificer?
Diego López de Arenas : the written evidence for a standard application of Pythagorean design-modules by Hispanic builders and craftsmen
Fray Miguel de San Andréas : more written evidence for a standard application of Pythagorean design-modules by Hispanic builders and craftsmen
A sixteenth-century "Mexican mosque"
Some triangular conclusions.