Islamic geometry: the construction of beauty

In our post about Islamic geometry, wonder | wander | women attended Samira Mian's class on drawing patterns from the palaces of Agra and the Alhambra. It's been a while but we haven't lost our love for those beautiful combinations of art, spiritualism and science.

sacred geometry

Ever since we visited the Alhambra in Spain, we've been obsessed with the patterns of Islamic tradition. The calculation and creation of these mathematically precise patterns was a mystery to us. 

Tile pattern from the Alhambra,
from AlhambradeGranada.org