Measuring Form, Ornament and Materiality in Sinan’s Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque: an Analysis Using Fractal Dimensions

• Published in: Nexus network journal Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 5 - 22
• Main Authors: Ostwald, Michael J., Ediz, Özgür
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel Springer Basel 01.04.2015; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Analysis; Architects; Architecture; Careers; Construction; Construction materials; Design; Design engineering; Facades; Fractal analysis; Fractals; History; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics; Mathematics; Mathematics and Statistics; Mosques; Mosques & temples; Networks; Popular Science; Studies; Visual; Fractal Dimension; Central Dome; Visual Property; Visual Presence; Visual Complexity

The Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque in Istanbul was completed in the late sixteenth century and it is today regarded as one of architect Sinan’s most important works. Like many of Sinan’s designs it has been the subject of detailed analysis in the past, with historians offering theories to explain its visual...