TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moffitt,John F.
TI  - The islamic design module in Latin America: proportionality and the techniques of neo-Mudejar architecture 
SN  - 0786418060 (softcover : alk. paper)
AV  - NA 702.2 M64.2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Jefferson, N.C.
PB  - McFarland & Company
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Arquitectura
KW  - América Latina
KW  - Architecture, Colonial
KW  - Mudejar influences
KW  - Arquitectura colonial -
KW  - Influencias mudéjares
KW  - Composition, proportion, etc
KW  - Composición, proporción, etc
KW  - Building
KW  - Technique
KW  - Construcción -
KW  - Técnica
N1  - 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
ER  -