ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE. Honour and Fleming have sought to distinguish Islamic architecture from Western classicism by suggesting that the Moslem architects¡¦ ¡§interest in structural problems would seem to have been primarily intellectual; their appreciation of architecture to be focused on the decorative and the ornamental.¡¨ Do you agree with the separation between structure and ornament in Islamic architecture that is suggested here? Examine two Islamic buildings ¡V one early, one late ¡V in the formulation of …showed first 75 words of 1384 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1384 total…those that are ornamental.¡¨ The role of structure and ornamentation in Islamic architecture is very much interrelated. With the Taj Mahal and the Great Mosque at Cordoba it is evident that the surface embellishment has an impact on the observers perception. This embellishment would not give the desired effect if Moslem architects did not incorporate the ornamentation with the structure of the building to give an overall effect that we now know as Islamic architecture.