Difference from Neo-Mudéjar: Stone, Not Brick

Close-up comparison of two walls. Neo-Mudéjar features thin, narrow red bricks stacked to form diamond grids and corbelling, relying on varied bricklaying techniques with a single material. Damascus features neatly cut stone blocks, with two alternating shades forming horizontal bands, relying on the inherent color difference of the stone. Both employ Islamic geometry, but with entirely different means. Avoid: depicting the Damascene wall as brickwork, simulating stone color differences with paint, making the band heights inconsistent, and mixing brick and stone systems on the same wall.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

兩面牆的近景比較。新穆德哈爾是薄窄的紅磚疊出菱形網格與疊澀,材料單一靠砌法變化;大馬士革是切割整齊的石塊,深淺兩色交替成水平條帶,靠石材本身的色差。兩者都做伊斯蘭幾何,手段完全不同。避免:把大馬士革的牆畫成磚砌、用塗料模擬石材的色差、讓條帶的高度忽大忽小、在同一面牆上混用磚與石兩種系統。