ISBN10: 0863564666, ISBN13: 9780863564666, [publisher: SAQI Books, London] Hardcover Foreword by Godfrey Goodwin, 473 pages, glossary, bibliography, indexes, black and white and color plates. Small stain on the lower front board, a few other minor soil spots and faint scratches, foxing on the edges.
[Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]

ISBN10: 0863564666, ISBN13: 9780863564666, [publisher: London : Saqi Books] Hardcover First Edition xxi, 473 pages ; 34 cm. owner's plate. This first of two volumes, based on the 19th-century publication of Owen Jones plates and text of the "Alhambra", contains 22 chapters with 36 Owen Jones plates and over 200 new figures giving chronological ground plans, elevations and analyses of the architecture, decoration and epigraphy. It provides a general introduction to Nasrid art and architecture, explains the Nasrid proportional system of design, and discusses the early Nasrid palaces and the great city gates. During his research for the book, Professor Fernandez-Puertas has made some discoveries. He has, for example, resolved one of the great enigmas of Nasrid art by discovering the geometric proportional system on which the entire Alhambra architecture and decoration are based. The designs are at times so intricate that they baffle even professional mathematicians. Professor Fernandez-Puertas has cracked the geometric code and discovered that the marvels of the Alhambra are built on a proportional system that is essentially incommensurable and not based on fixed units like metres or inches. This has involved making hundreds of analytical figures, many of which are included in this book. Professor Fernandez-Puertas is also the first to discover the chronological order in which the Alhambra palaces were built. He has collated much fragmentary information ...
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Saqi Books 1997 Hardcover Good; Hardcover; Withdrawn library copy with the standard library markings; Clean covers with minor edgewear; Library stamp to the top textblock edge and a few spots of foxing to the top and right textblock edges; Library stamps to the endpapers; Text pages are clean & unmarked; Good binding; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Extra-Large Format (Folio, 12.75"-14" tall); Heavy (6.2 lbs); Red cloth covers with title in gold lettering; 1997, Saqi Books; 460 pages; "The Alhambra, Volume One, " by Antonio Fernandez-Puertas.

ISBN10: 0863564666, ISBN13: 9780863564666, [publisher: Saqi Books] Hardcover New
[Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]