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Hispanic Design from Spain to the Americas: Online Resources

The Grammar of Ornament: Related resources

  Digital version of The Grammar of Ornament--page 129 begins the "Moresque Ornament" chapter

Wikipedia: Owen Jones                                                                                           

NYPL Digital Collections (images)

National Museums Scotland:  The Grammar of Ornament online resource 

Metropolitan Museum of Art blog post  

Architecture

Overview: Islamic Architecture (Credo Reference)

Overview: Mission Revival (Dictionary of Architecture and Construction)

Overview: Spanish Architecture (The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia)

Overview: Spanish Colonial Architecture (Dictionary of Architecture and Construction)

Overview: Architecture of Southern California (Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures)

Photographs: Architecture of Spain and Portugal (Credo Reference)

Topic Pages:

Alhambra (Credo Reference)

Alhambra (EBSCO)

Interior Decoration in Spain (EBSCO)

Modernism (Credo Reference)

New Mexico Art History (website)

The Ranch of the Swallows Museum of the Southwest (website)

Adamson House and Malibu Lagoon Museum (website)

The California Missions Trail (website)

Panama-California Exposition Digital Archive (website)

Official Guide Book of the Panama-California Exposition San Diego 1915 (digital book)

Architects:

Luis Barragan (EBSCO)

Santiago Calatrava (Credo Reference)

Santiago Calatrava (Official website)

Alonso Cano (Credo Reference)

Antonio Gaudi (Credo Reference)

Ricardo Legorreta (EBSCO) 

Oscar Niemeyer (EBSCO)

Richard Requa (PCAD)

Carleton Winslow, Sr. (PCAD)

 

Moorish Revival Architecture:

CasaBlanca Luxury Beach Estate

Olana, Frederick Church's historic Hudson Valley home

5 examples of Manhattan's Moorish Revival Architecture

Artists