The islamic design module in Latin America : proportionality and the techniques of neo-Mudejar architecture / John F. Moffitt.
Tipo de material: TextoDetalles de publicación: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, 2004.Descripción: viii, 207 p. : il., fotos byn. planos ; 26 cmISBN:- 0786418060 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 9780786418060
- Architecture -- Latin America
- Arquitectura -- América Latina
- Architecture, Colonial -- Latin America -- Mudejar influences
- Arquitectura colonial - -- América Latina -- Influencias mudéjares
- Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc
- Arquitectura -- Composición, proporción, etc
- Building -- Technique
- Construcción - -- Técnica
- NA 702.2 M64.2004
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Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 199-204) and índice.
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 Tepotzotlan -- 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 -- Ocotlan : 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 Lopez de Arenas : the written evidence for a standard application of Pythagorean design-modules by Hispanic builders and craftsmen -- Fray Miguel de San Andreas : more written evidence for a standard application of Pythagorean design-modules by Hispanic builders and craftsmen -- A sixteenth-century "Mexican mosque" -- Some triangular conclusions.