Description
Combines huge-ranging analysis with the creator’s creative talents to expose the tactics used to create the styles decorating homes within the Islamic world
Islamic geometric designs are well-liked around the world for his or her attractiveness and super intricacy, but they’re seldom understood. On this handsomely illustrated extent, Eric Broug analyzes and explains those advanced designs of their ancient and bodily context.
Broug displays how, over the centuries, craftsmen have been ready to beautify homes with glorious geometric styles the usage of the most simple of gear and with out recourse to mathematical calculations. Layout components produced from instantly strains and circles have been positioned in grids after which repeated and sundry to generate apparently endless arrays of breathtaking styles.
Chapters are dedicated to each and every of the primary households of geometric Layout―fourfold, fivefold, and sixfold―and to the advanced blended styles. Readers can practice the Layout strategies through which those styles have been created or even discover ways to reproduce and invent geometric styles for themselves. Broug’s unique drawings accompany pictures of mosques, madrasas, palaces, and tombs from the Islamic global, starting from North Africa to Iran and Uzbekistan, and from the 8th to the 19th centuries. 800 illustrations in colour and black and white
