Mudéjar Done Wrong

A building demonstrating common mistakes. The poorly executed version is: flat modern red brick walls with a few horseshoe arch decorative frames; the bricks are uniformly sized, evenly colored machine-made bricks, laid flat without any undulations; geometric patterns are created by different colored bricks rather than protruding shadows; the roof is adorned with onion domes and colored glazed tiles, turning it into a theme park. The correct approach is to create patterns through undulations, not colors, and to cover the entire surface. Avoid: creating patterns with different colored bricks, using uniformly sized modern bricks, laying walls flat without undulations, adding elements like onion domes that do not belong to this system.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟示範常見錯誤的建築。做壞的版本是:平整的現代紅磚牆貼上幾個馬蹄拱的裝飾框;磚是規格統一、顏色均勻的機製磚,砌得平整沒有任何凹凸;幾何圖案用不同顏色的磚拼出來而不是用凸出的陰影;屋頂加了洋蔥頂與彩色琉璃變成主題樂園。正確的做法是圖案靠凹凸不靠顏色,而且要滿。避免:用不同顏色的磚拼圖案、使用規格均勻的現代磚、把牆面砌得平整沒有凹凸、加入洋蔥頂等不屬於這個系統的元素。