and here is an updated screenshot of a page from the website. finally happy with its layout, i am at last beginning to bring over the content i have been working on to the site itself. thank heavens for mamp and kernest!!!!
an image from el aljaferia, zaragoza.
still plugging away in the coal mines, i promise! pictured: a sketch from a model of toledo’s mezquita cristo de la luz.
(as well as the pamphlet i am putting together for taubman college! the report and the website will display the same drawings and photographs, but have very different expository requirements.)
(which is a design project in itself with which i have been busying myself)
another from Gormaz for the book — and for the website-to-be.
Fortaleza Califal de Gormaz, with topography added (thanks to GIS from the Junta de Castilla y Leon.)
home again.
I am writing from my apartment back in Pittsburgh, where I am looking over the photos I posted from the Booth trip this past month and strategizing about the next steps I will be taking with the Fellowship.
It was an amazing month — even though from the outset, I knew that I wouldn’t be able to post about all of the things that I saw, in rereading I realize that there is much that I missed.
The second act of the Booth will consist of editing images and making drawings of some of the sites featured here and then designing a website for students and educators to have images of the details of the augmented Al-Andalus. In the interest of making this little blog a touch more robust, I will keep adding images here as I work on them — having an audience, even an imagined (or imaginary) audience, always keeps one more honest.
So on we go!
Here is an image of that same threshold viewed from the patio. The edge where the wall of the mosque was torn down is still visible, especially raggedy where the arch would have been.
