Join Katya for this series of seminars where we will study two remarkable documents dealing with geometric modes of construction. They are believed to have been produced for and by medieval Islamic guilds of craftsmen and architects, and offer an insight into how the principles of practical geometry were used in developing interlocking star and polygon compositions.
Both the textual and the graphic elements of our documents point to exchange between the realms of theory and practice. Taking this theoretical and practical approach, we will begin with a historical and contextual introduction and then reenact some of the diagrams from these manuals ourselves.