Alcazar
An interlocking pinwheel tile drawn from the geometry of Moorish-Spanish palace floors — dense, locking forms where the arms of one figure fit the notches of the next.
Star-and-polygon patterns, girih strapwork, zellij mosaic, and the wider Islamic and Mediterranean geometric tradition.
An interlocking pinwheel tile drawn from the geometry of Moorish-Spanish palace floors — dense, locking forms where the arms of one figure fit the notches of the next.
A four-fold star-and-cross figure repeated across the plane. Drawn from the carved ceilings and tile floors of mosque architecture.
Overlapping eight-pointed stars that meet in a field of crosses — the open geometry of a celosía, the pierced screen of Moorish and Spanish architecture.
Stars and straps interlocking across the plane — the geometric strapwork that runs through Islamic architecture from Morocco to Central Asia.
A six-fold lattice of pierced grilles — the dense geometric weave that runs through Islamic latticework and Japanese kumiko.
The ogee — the doubled-S arch of an Islamic gateway — pulled into a trellis that fills the plane.
A dense lattice of interlocking stars — the star-and-polygon geometry that runs through Islamic latticework and Renaissance pavement design.