TY  - BOOK
AU  - Broug,Eric
TI  - Islamic geometric design
SN  - 0500516952
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York, London
PB  - Thames & Hudson
KW  - Decoration and ornament, Architectural
KW  - Islamic countries
KW  - Geometry in art
KW  - Islamic art
KW  - Islamic decoration and ornament
KW  - Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Basic design principles -- Grids and polygons -- Fourfold geometric design -- Sixfold geometric design -- Fivefold geometric design -- Combined geometric design -- Appendix: How to create designs
N2  - Looking at mosques, madrasas, palaces and tombs from the 8th-19th centuries, Eric Broug analyzes and explains Islamic geometric designs in their historical and physical context. Chapters cover the main families of geometric design--fourfold, fivefold, and sixfold--as well as basic design principles, grids, polygons, and complex combined patterns. Includes an appendix on how to create designs and a glossary; Islamic geometric designs are admired worldwide for their beauty and marvelous intricacy, yet they are seldom understood. In this illustrated volume, Eric Broug analyzes and explains these complex designs in their historical and physical context. Broug shows how, over the centuries, craftsmen were able to adorn buildings with wonderful geometric patterns using the simplest of tools and without recourse to mathematical calculations. Design elements created from straight lines and circles were placed in grids and then repeated and varied to generate seemingly limitless arrays of breathtaking patterns. Chapters are devoted to each of the main families of geometric design - fourfold, fivefold, and sixfold - and to the complex combined patterns. Readers can follow the design processes by which these patterns were created and even learn to reproduce and invent geometric patterns for themselves
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