Contents Foreword: Tracing the Architectural Tapestry of Ibero-America Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction and Theoretical Framework: a Component instead of an Influence 1 Colonial and Racist Problems, Decolonial Solutions 2 Against a False Notion of Distance: a Linguistic Approach 3 If It''s Not Foreign, It''s Not an Influence 4 Beyond Styles, Continuities Are Based on Architectural Design Ideas 5 Structure and Goals of This Book1 Critical Presentation of the Historiography on the Arab Component in Ibero-American Architecture 1 Mudejar Components During the Viceregal Period: a Well-Known History 2 Independent Period Connections: Migration and Exotic Neo-Arabisms 3 Modern and Contemporary Continuities: a Field in Development2 Design Criteria Versus Architecture Stylistic Periodizations, a History Based on Continuities 1 Traditional Historical Periodizations Cannot Answer Several Questions 2 Design Criteria: a Decolonized Category to Understand Architecture beyond Periodizations3 Tiles, from the Viceregal Period to Pampulha, Glazed Ceramics of Arab Origin, and Their Role in Ibero-American Architecture 1 The Islamic Component in Iberian Ceramics (and Culture) 2 Mudejar and Moorish Hybridization of Iberian-Islamic Ceramics 3 Expulsion of Moorish People and the Development of Iberian Ceramics in the Seventeenth Century 4 A Second Intercontinental Loop: the Ibero-American Conquest and the Trans-Atlantic Encounter 5 Tiles after the Independence Process: Several Continuities in Design Criteria and Some Formal Disruptions4 Lattices, from the Lima Balconies to the CoBoGo, the Screens for Thermal and Privacy Control, Arab Roots, and Local Fruits 1 Mashrabiyya in Ibero-America, a "Longue Durée" History 2 One Question / Several Answers: How Did Arab mashrabiyya Arrive in Ibero-America? 3 A Second Question: Why Are They So Frequent in Lima? Answers Based on the Epoch, the Weather, and the Religion 4 Social and Gender Connections: Balconies as Architectural Veils 5 Geographical and Historical Connections between Two Big Cities: Lima and Seville 6 Not a Simple Copy: Ibero-American Viceregal mashrabiyya as a New Local Solution 7 A New Layer about Screen Devices: Lattices Created after the Viceregal Period5 Ponds, from the Alhambra to Luis Barragán, Water as the Origin of Creation in Islam, and Its Presence in Ibero-American Buildings 1 Islamic Ideas about Water and Their Reflections on Ibero-American Viceregal Architecture 2 Water in the Beginning of the 20th-Century Architecture: Revivals, Exoticism, and Migrant Identities 3 Islamic Links about Water in Modern Ibero-American Architecture: a New Life for Old Ideas6 Wood and Clay: Iberian-Arabic Construction Techniques and Their Role in Ibero-America from the Viceregal Period to the Present 1 "Tabiques" and "Crujías" Basis of a Composition Design System 2 "Carpintería de lo blanco" Geometry as the Base of a Ceiling System7 Zaguanes and Patios: the Sacred Value of Privacy in Arab Culture and Its Continuity as a Design Criterion in Ibero-America 1 Houses as Convents: an Unsuspected Arabic Component in Ibero-American Architecture 2 Western Modernity and Open Facades: an Increasing Influence 3 Modernity as a Way Back to the Origin: Contemporary Experimentations8 More Is More, Not "Horror Vacui": Complexity as a Goal of Islamic Design and Its Geometric Explorations from the Middle East to Ibero-America 1 Ancient Architecture Was Postmodern Too: Islamic Complexity from a Contemporary Re-reading 2 Modern Complexities Are Not Contradictions: Islamic Sources in 20th-Century Architecture9 A Case Study: Native and Mudejar Bases of Tropical Colonial Churches in the Americas 10 A Twist in the Architectural Relationship between Ibero-America and the Arab Culture: Ibero-American Architects Work in Islamic Countries Afterwords: Not Everything Is Explained by the Arabic Component, but Little Can Be Explained without It Architectural Works Bibliography Index.