A History of the Arab Component in Ibero-American Architecture /

A History of the Arab Component in Ibero-American Architecture /

This book examines five centuries of Ibero-American architectural history through the lens of its Arabic architectural component. It seeks to illuminate an integral part of Ibero-American culture-one that is frequently ignored and undervalued as merely an exotic influence. Fernando Martínez Nespral&...

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Main Author: Nespral, Fernando Luis Martínez (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Series: Islamicate and Ibero-American World Connections ; 3.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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American Studies.
Art History.
Architecture.

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Call Number: BL245

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Foreword: Tracing the Architectural Tapestry of Ibero-America
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction and Theoretical Framework: a Component instead of an Influence
  •  1 Colonial and Racist Problems, Decolonial Solutions
  •  2 Against a False Notion of Distance: a Linguistic Approach
  •  3 If It's Not Foreign, It's Not an Influence
  •  4 Beyond Styles, Continuities Are Based on Architectural Design Ideas
  •  5 Structure and Goals of This Book
  • 1 Critical Presentation of the Historiography on the Arab Component in Ibero-American Architecture
  •  1 Mudejar Components During the Viceregal Period: a Well-Known History
  •  2 Independent Period Connections: Migration and Exotic Neo-Arabisms
  •  3 Modern and Contemporary Continuities: a Field in Development
  • 2 Design Criteria Versus Architecture Stylistic Periodizations, a History Based on Continuities
  •  1 Traditional Historical Periodizations Cannot Answer Several Questions
  •  2 Design Criteria: a Decolonized Category to Understand Architecture beyond Periodizations
  • 3 Tiles, from the Viceregal Period to Pampulha, Glazed Ceramics of Arab Origin, and Their Role in Ibero-American Architecture
  •  1 The Islamic Component in Iberian Ceramics (and Culture)
  •  2 Mudejar and Moorish Hybridization of Iberian-Islamic Ceramics
  •  3 Expulsion of Moorish People and the Development of Iberian Ceramics in the Seventeenth Century
  •  4 A Second Intercontinental Loop: the Ibero-American Conquest and the Trans-Atlantic Encounter
  •  5 Tiles after the Independence Process: Several Continuities in Design Criteria and Some Formal Disruptions
  • 4 Lattices, from the Lima Balconies to the CoBoGo, the Screens for Thermal and Privacy Control, Arab Roots, and Local Fruits
  •  1  Mashrabiyya in Ibero-America, a "Longue Durée" History
  •  2 One Question / Several Answers: How Did Arab mashrabiyya Arrive in Ibero-America?
  •  3 A Second Question: Why Are They So Frequent in Lima? Answers Based on the Epoch, the Weather, and the Religion
  •  4 Social and Gender Connections: Balconies as Architectural Veils
  •  5 Geographical and Historical Connections between Two Big Cities: Lima and Seville
  •  6 Not a Simple Copy: Ibero-American Viceregal mashrabiyya as a New Local Solution
  •  7 A New Layer about Screen Devices: Lattices Created after the Viceregal Period
  • 5 Ponds, from the Alhambra to Luis Barragán, Water as the Origin of Creation in Islam, and Its Presence in Ibero-American Buildings
  •  1 Islamic Ideas about Water and Their Reflections on Ibero-American Viceregal Architecture
  •  2 Water in the Beginning of the 2th-Century Architecture: Revivals, Exoticism, and Migrant Identities
  •  3 Islamic Links about Water in Modern Ibero-American Architecture: a New Life for Old Ideas
  • 6 Wood and Clay: Iberian-Arabic Construction Techniques and Their Role in Ibero-America from the Viceregal Period to the Present
  •  1 "Tabiques" and "Crujías" Basis of a Composition Design System
  •  2 "Carpintería de lo blanco" Geometry as the Base of a Ceiling System
  • 7 Zaguanes and Patios: the Sacred Value of Privacy in Arab Culture and Its Continuity as a Design Criterion in Ibero-America
  •  1 Houses as Convents: an Unsuspected Arabic Component in Ibero-American Architecture
  •  2 Western Modernity and Open Facades: an Increasing Influence
  •  3 Modernity as a Way Back to the Origin: Contemporary Experimentations
  • 8 More Is More, Not "Horror Vacui": Complexity as a Goal of Islamic Design and Its Geometric Explorations from the Middle East to Ibero-America
  •  1 Ancient Architecture Was Postmodern Too: Islamic Complexity from a Contemporary Re-reading
  •  2 Modern Complexities Are Not Contradictions: Islamic Sources in 2th-Century Architecture
  • 9 A Case Study: Native and Mudejar Bases of Tropical Colonial Churches in the Americas
  • 1 A Twist in the Architectural Relationship between Ibero-America and the Arab Culture: Ibero-American Architects Work in Islamic Countries
  • Afterwords: Not Everything Is Explained by the Arabic Component, but Little Can Be Explained without It
  • Architectural Works
  • Bibliography
  • Index.