I strongly disagree with the title. There is no such thing as Islamic Architecture or Islamic Culture. Islam is a multicultural faith with strong presence in Arab world, the Persian world, the Indian Subcontinent, in Eurasia and even in Europe. You cannot label an architectural style as Islamic just because it is used in a mosque. There are elements of the host culture present in this buildings. Mosques in Egypt or Turkey are significantly different from Mosques in Europe or India. - — boredpanda
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What's with the quote from an article comment? This argument could go on forever, but when a form becomes one in the same with a movement or religion over a period of time, it becomes impossible to separate them. The pictures are great though!
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I borrowed this drawing book once to figure out how to model such domes for a restaurant project. The book was in Farsi so all I could decipher were the step by step drawings. Wish I had copied it, the drawing method was pretty cool but nearly impossible for me at the time to translate easily into 3d modeling. In short, hand drafting made those domes happen....
Student Works: StalacTile, Tessellated Manifolds... Arab mathematics.
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