Publications related to Moorish architecture

Dynamics of CLIMP-63 S-acylation control ER morphology

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Graham Knott, Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Laurence Gouzi Abrami, Béatrice Kunz, Luciano Andres Abriata, Sylvia Ho, Catherine Maclachlan, Patrick Alain Sandoz, Gard Spreemann, Robin Alexander Denhardt-Eriksson

A key player in the formation of endoplasmic reticulum sheets is CLIMP-63, but mechanistic details remained elusive. Here authors combined cellular experiments and mathematical modelling to show that S-acylation of CLIMP-63 regulates its function by mediat ...

Nature Portfolio2023

The Pavilions at the Alhambra’s Court of the Lions: Graphic Analysis of Muqarnas

Ignacio Ferrer Perez-Blanco

This research documents and graphically analyzes the pavilions muqarnas at the Court of the Lions in the Alhambra in Granada, a World Heritage Site. In order to cast some light on the understanding and preservation of these 14th century architectural eleme ...

2020

A Grammar of Muqarnas: Drawings of the Alhambra by Jones and Goury (1834-1845)

Ignacio Ferrer Perez-Blanco

The muqarnas of the Nasrid Alhambra stand out as one of the most singular architectural episodes o f Medieval Islamic art due to their sophisticated three-dimensional construction, whose layout remains little known. In 1834 and 1837, the architects Owen Jo ...

2019

New Drawings of the Alhambra: Deformations of Muqarnas in the Pendentives of the Sala de la Barca

Ignacio Ferrer Perez-Blanco

Architectural heritage preservation and sustainability need advanced graphic techniques in order to document and understand the disposition/composition of plaster muqarnas, a fragile construction element. The muqarnas are key elements in the Nasrid archite ...

2019

The Rotterdam Kunsthal, OMA and the Process of European Integration in the Late 1980s

Tibor Bonaventura Pataky

The paper focuses on the Rotterdam Kunsthal by OMA and its relation to a double shift during the second half of the 1980s: the process of European Integration gaining momentum, and, with not much delay, a new approach both within the thinking and the work ...

2018

Integration of energy issues into the design process of sustainable neighborhoods

Emmanuel Rey

The increasing importance of sustainability in urban and architectural design progressively influences the conception of urban neighborhoods. Among the multiple aspects of this evolution, the reduction of global energy consumption plays a crucial role. Its ...

2006