The Topkapi Scroll - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Topkapi Scroll write by Gülru Necipoğlu. This book was released on 1996-03-01. The Topkapi Scroll available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is an exceedingly rich and valuable source of information. In the course of her in-depth analysis of this scroll dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, Gülru Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her text has particularly far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. She also compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art, making this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, is reproduced entirely in color in this elegant, large-format volume. An extensive catalogue includes illustrations showing the underlying geometries (in the form of incised “dead” drawings) from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohammad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the muqarnas and demonstrates by means of CAD drawings how one of the scroll’s patterns could be used co design a three-dimensional vault.
The Topkapi Scroll$ggeometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture
The Topkapi Scroll$ggeometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Topkapi Scroll$ggeometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture write by Gülru Necipoğlu. This book was released on 1996. The Topkapi Scroll$ggeometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Topkapi Scroll : Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture
The Topkapi Scroll : Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Topkapi Scroll : Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture write by Gülru Necipoğlu. This book was released on 1995. The Topkapi Scroll : Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture
A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture write by Finbarr Barry Flood. This book was released on 2017-06-16. A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The two-volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art. The more than 50 newly commissioned essays revisit canonical topics, and include original approaches and scholarship on neglected aspects of the field. This two-volume Companion showcases more than 50 specially commissioned essays and an introduction that survey Islamic art and architecture in all its traditional grandeur Essays are organized according to a new chronological-geographical paradigm that remaps the unprecedented expansion of the field and reflects the nuances of major artistic and political developments during the 1400-year span The Companion represents recent developments in the field, and encourages future horizons by commissioning innovative essays that provide fresh perspectives on canonical subjects, such as early Islamic art, sacred spaces, palaces, urbanism, ornament, arts of the book, and the portable arts while introducing others that have been previously neglected, including unexplored geographies and periods, transregional connectivities, talismans and magic, consumption and networks of portability, museums and collecting, and contemporary art worlds; the essays entail strong comparative and historiographic dimensions The volumes are accompanied by a map, and each subsection is preceded by a brief outline of the main cultural and historical developments during the period in question The volumes include periods and regions typically excluded from survey books including modern and contemporary art-architecture; China, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sicily, the New World (Americas)
Practical Geometric Pattern Design
Practical Geometric Pattern Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Practical Geometric Pattern Design write by Mirosław Majewski. This book was released on 2020-02-10. Practical Geometric Pattern Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is third in a series of textbooks on geometric pattern design used at the Istanbul Design Center. It is intended as a tutorial book for 30 hours basic course on geometric patterns in Islamic arts. The content of this book covers some major areas of geometric pattern design. In chapter 2 we discuss how one can approach a complex geometric pattern. It is the most important part in understanding the general structure of any pattern. In chapter 3 we discuss and experiment with patterns built on triangular grids and square grids. This is the simplest group of geometric patterns and usually neglected. In chapters 4 and 5 we deal with 6 and 12 fold patterns. These are the patterns with local symmetries D6 and D12. Usually, we refer to them as hexagonal and dodecagonal patterns. In chapters 6 and 7 we discuss octagonal patterns. Here we also briefly discuss differences between eastern (Central Asia and India) and western octagonal patterns (Morocco and Spain). Finally, in chapter 8 we discuss briefly decagonal patterns, i.e. patterns with D10 local symmetries. More about decagonal patterns readers can find in two other books published by Istanbul Design Publishing in 2019.
