ALHAMBRA
the two centuries when the tuareg conquer and rule spain (XI-XII centuries).
References:
1.les touareg au pays du cid - les invasions almoravides en espagne au pays du cid by beraud-villars.
2.alhambra by michael jacobs 3. sahara by rene gardi 4. Moorish Culture in Spain by Titus Burckhardt
 
the africanized spain :: two centuries of architecture
in alhambra
Chess: the most popular game at the court
the mysterious light that filters the day through the windows. treatise on chess translated from arabic the court of the myrtles dominated by a large poolwhich is reflecting the Tower of Comares.
the route and the courtyard'scorner the display of the landscape architecture
the Alcazaba as seen in the late afternoon the keep of Torre de la Guardia INSIDE THE LABYRINTH:
the western end of the Alcazaba
  THE PALACE CITY OF ALHAMBRA
the Mexuar or Council Chamber
The Palace City of Alhambra - a great ship moored between the mountains and the plains. The ALHAMBRA is the most perfectly beautiful place in the world: a monument that was designed to be seen under different lights, and to leave the viewer with the impression that a wealth of tiny details and secret corners remains always to be discovered. (the victorian travel writer Augustus Hare).
WHAT MAKES THE ALHAMBRA SO IMPORTANT IN BOTH AFRICAN AND WESTERN HISTORY?
Coxeter Book Edouard Dins's MathThesis Maurits Escher Computer Visualization
1.THE IMPORTANCE OF ALHAMBRA IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ALGEBRAS OF PLANAR PATTERNS - CALLED THE SEVENTEEN CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC GROUPS.
2. THE MATCH-UP OF THE MOORISH PATTERNS WITH THAT OF THE MOTHERLAND.
3. THE APPLICATION OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC GROUPS IN SCIENCE &ART TODAY.

ALHAMBRA CONTINUES...

Many of the brigthly colored tile-covered walls and floors of the Alhambra in Spain show us thathte Moors were masters in the art of filling a plane with similar interlocking figures, bordering each other without gaps. What a pity that their religion forbade them to make images! (M.C. Escher)
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