Through its various historical stages, the Moorish architecture shows an integration of elements and techniques with other English-Visigoth Eastern Syrian, Byzantine and Mesopotamian to which other influences would add even more distant and surprising, the Iranian Sasanian and post both, and even Armenia, ribbed vaults reflected in Cordoba, and their derivations Hispanic. This Islamic architecture as developed in the domains Muslims of the peninsula, we must add the architecture, Moorish and Mudejar first then taking place in the Christian kingdoms.
This huge legacy, is what today is called art and culture "Andalusian", no reference to the Andalusia region, where took part, but rather to Al-Andalus, medieval name of Islamic Spain.
Art, and especially the Andalusian architecture have achieved well-deserved worldwide reputation, especially in the areas of Muslim rule, it is one of the most momentous consequences of the Islamic culture of all time and its prolongation still alive in the Maghreb (Morocco), Algeria and Ifriquiyya (Tunisia).
But besides this architecture and this retain their full validity urbanism in our time, as the modesty of their materials and resources, and the simplicity of his language strongly identify with the ideals of architecture and urbanism today. In addition, the isolated house, for his concept of complementarity between the garden and the house, its sustainability, and bioclimatic, and also because its language, elemental, evocative, and easily transmitted, has not experienced the nineteenth-century eclecticism that led to an obvious language impairment of the West Classic.
why certain peoples of the Middle East are turning to this Moorish architecture, demanding a modern, effective interpretation in certain public or private buildings that are intended, in turn, compatible with other sense Andalusian roots of local vernacular architecture, and the multiple demands of today's world.
In all projects it becomes clear Andalusian influence is played with prototypes of volume and space that comes from the Moorish architectural language or English-Moorish and classical formulas and articulate connect them around courtyards and gardens with their games Shaft, porches and galleries. Let's inventory of the primary volumes and spatial elements they contain.
Lecture by D. Rafael Manzano Martos on November 17, 2010 at the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame, USA.
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