Palacios de las Mil y Una Noches. Arquitectura morisca en los Estados Unidos, 1848–1930

Lily Litvak

doi:10.22530/ayc.2016.N9.353

Authors

Lily Litvak The University of Texas at Austin https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9759-6215

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22530/ayc.2016.N9.353

Keywords:

moorish architecture, united states

Abstract

Moorish architecture was in great demand in the United States during a period of enormous economic prosperity and original architectonic experimentation. The style spread and was popularized due to the fashion of travels abroad, mainly to England, Spain and the Orient, and the desire to express luxury, sophisticated exoticism, and the desire to express certain original peculiarities. Amongst the most popular structures one can count horseshoe arches for doors and windows and diverse types of domes. This expressive style was successfully employed in a variety of constructions; mansions, business, apartment buildings, shriner temples, synagogues, international exhibitions, and with particular success and originality in the new large, opulently decorated movie palaces or picture palaces built with the advent of the movies as a pastime of the middle class.

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