Reconstructing Early Islamic Geometries Applied To Surface Designs

Year: 2019 Authors: Roger Burrows

Core claim

Early Islamic surface ornament can be reconstructed through six ordering methodologies—grids, polygon subdivisions, rays, close-packed circles, nesting polygons, and modular tiles—that may encode meaning as well as pattern.

Topics

Islamic geometric design, surface ornament, pattern reconstruction, symbolic geometry, tessellation

Domains

Euclidean geometry, symmetry, tessellation, polygon subdivision, tilings, ornament, architectural surface design, muqarnas

Methods

geometric reconstruction, comparative visual analysis, pattern taxonomy, historical source study

Media

windows, doors, walls, domes, minbars

Source status

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