1 A detail of a tile based on the geometric small tesserae in Bin Yūsuf’s Madrassa, Marrakech 46
2 Mausoleum of Abū Zamāʿ al-Balawī, Kairouan 53
3 Tiles at the Bardo Museum, Tunisia 53
4 Tiles of the Alhambra, Granada 54
5 Tiles at Real Alcazar, Seville 54
6 Tiles at Testour, Tunisia 55
7 Tile plinth at the Convent of San Francisco, Lima 57
8 Tile plinth at the Convent of Santo Domingo, Lima 58
9 Tiles plinths at the Convent of San Francisco, Quito 59
10 Tiles plinths at the Convent of San Francisco, Quito 60
11 Tiles in the Education and Health Ministry, Rio do Janeiro 65
12 Lima in 1872 by H. Meyer 69
13 Lima balcony, Torre Palace, Lima 70
14 Mashrabiya at Al-Sadat house, Cairo 71
15 Tapada by Jacobus Boelen 79
16 Tapadas limeñas 80
17 Corner balcony, del Oidor House, Lima 84
18 Gayer Anderson Museum, Cairo 85
19 Torre Tagle Palace, Lima 86
20 Bayt Al-Suhaymi, Cairo 87
21 Latticed balcony, Torre Tagle Palace, Lima 87
22 From corridor balcony to Lima balcony through mashrabiyya 89
23 Arch. Joao Filgueiras Lima (Lele) Colina Velha at UNB Campus, Brasília, Brazil 92
24 Cloister-garden of Santo Domingo Convent, Lima 97
25 Neo Arab fountain in the Larreta Museum garden, Buenos Aires 100
26 Lovers’ fountain in “Los clubes”, Atizapán, México 103
27 Swimming pool in Gilardi house, Mexico City, Luis Barragán 103
28 Salk Institute, San Diego, California, designed by Louis Kahn 104
29 Environmental Axis Jimenez Avenue, Bogotá by Rogelio Salmona 105
30 San Francisco church, Quito, Ecuador 113
31 Santo Domingo church, Quito, Ecuador 114
32 El Arca House, Maldonado, Uruguay, by the architect Giancarlo Puppo 116
33 Plan of a convent 120
34 Outside, on Avenida Independencia Avenue, of the Santa Casa de Ejercicios Espirituales 122
35 Anasagasti house in Buenos Aires (Later the headquarters of the National Museum of Costume History), Buenos Aires, Argentina 123
36 Plan of the Colombian illustrious guest house, by Rogelio Salmona, arch 126
37 Tiles of Santo Domingo Convent, Lima 129
38 Mixed-line arches at the Torre Tagle Palace, Lima, Peru 131
39 Mixed-line arches, Aljafería, Zaragoza, Spain 132
40 Arabic inspired tiles, Buenos Aires subway 133
41 Tiles with Arabic calligraphy at Independence Station in Buenos Aires’ Subway 133
42 Tile pattern designed by Brazilian artist Athos Bulcão at the University of Brasília Institute of Arts in Brazil 136
43 Scheme of a typical Guaraní construction 139
44 A typical construction in Guaraní regions. House in Puerto Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina 140
45 Simplified scheme of a “par y nudillo” roof 144
46 Hybrid model used in tropical colonial churches 145
47 Mission church, Yaguarón, Paraguay 146
48 Church of San Atanasio, Villa de los Santos, Panama 146
49 Church of San Atanasio, Villa de los Santos, Panama 147
50 Church of San Xavier, region of Chiquitos, Bolivia 147
51 La Coupole, Olympic Complex, Algier, Algeria, Architect Oscar Niemeyer 153
52 Rashid Karami International Fair, Tripoli, Lebanon, Architect Oscar 154
53 St. Francis Convent dome, Lima, Peru 155
54 Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar, Architect Ricardo Legorreta 157