Azulejo
アズレージョ / 15th century– / Style / Architectural Ornament
Portugal's blue-and-white tile as architecture's skin — opening story, map and ornament to the street, making the city itself a readable plate.
Blue-and-white tile / Narrative panels wall-high / Repeating pattern / One body with the building
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- The Mudéjar lineage / the story panels of São Bento station / tiles and the post-earthquake city