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side chamber to the southern dome of the friday mosque, masjid-i-jami, morning light filtered through a brick lattice window.
what looks like the corner of a groin vault is really the complex transition from pointed arches to a simple dome. a plan of the mosque in arthur upham pope's "introducing persian architecture" counts almost 500 individual bays of domes and vaults.
the fine articulation of the individual parts of the dome are typical of what one might call the analytical side of islamic architecture. this quality, so appealing to a modernist sensibility, is related to the gothic but predates it by centuries.
the friday mosque has been called an encyclopedia of persian architecture as more than 900 years of building history is collected here. the newest part we saw was the recent reconstruction of several vaults after the mosque took a direct hit during the iran-iraq war.
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side chamber to the southern dome of the friday mosque, masjid-i-jami.
isfahan, iran.
all the parts that make up the transition from the pointed arch in the bottom part of the picture to the dome in the upper are articulated separately, giving the construction an almost modern feel - I was reminded of Uruguayan master eladio dieste.
...and of the gothic too, of course, but there is little of the gothic striving for lightness in persian architecture. indeed, many of the structural problems of vaulted masonry construction are solved with the use of mass. and the enormous walls and pillars are displayed proudly.
this is characteristic of persian architecture from long before the muslim conquest and well into the 17th century.
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into the light...the sprawl of prayer halls and madrasahs that make up the great friday mosque of isfahan is effectively held together by the discipline, clarity, and cool colours of its central courtyard.
the courtyard with its four iwans is the first of its kind in islamic architecture and was the result of a reconstruction after a fire in 1120AD. it since became a model for many central asian mosques.
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