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Se aborda el estudio de la formación y desarrollo de las mezquitas hispanomusulmanas conexionadas en lo que cabe con las principales del Norte de África y de Oriente. Se trata de un estado de la cuestión con adelanto de las novedades, enfoques o propuestas articuladas en los últimos decenios en las distintas áreas geográficas de la Península y de los países vecinos: Marruecos, Argelia y Túnez. Se incide en la dualidad iglesia-mezquita, para los orígenes del Islam andalusí, y mezquita-iglesia de la vertiente cristiana a partir del año 1085, la cuestión del paso de un edificio de...

This volume focusses on the mosaics and geometric designs from Ecija, the ancient Roman Astigi, the capital of the Conventus Astigitanus, which is one of four conventus iuridici that made the Roman Baetica. This work is part of a much larger study centered recently on the mosaics and the geometrical compositions of the Conventus Astgitanus, whose immediate objective pursued to cover the analysis of the musivaria of the whole of Baetica.In conjunction with the mosaics catalogue, this volume presents a catalogue of geometric designs, which are results of studies of different fields that make up ...

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.

Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation...