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“Girih Tiles: Decagonal Geometry in Medieval Islamic Architectural Tilings and Beyond”

EVENTS | October 24, 2017
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF
The university community is invited to hear from Peter Lu, a physicist at Harvard University, about the mathematics underlying the patterns of medieval Islamic art. His lecture is titled “Girih Tiles: Decagonal Geometry in Medieval Islamic Architectural Tilings and Beyond.” Photo of medieval Islamic architectural tilings Photo by Peter Lu Co-sponsored by the departments of art history and physics and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, the event will be held Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 5 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The lecture is free and open to the public. Prior to Lu’s lecture, a reception will be held in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition of photographs by Lu. The reception will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at Kelvin Smith Library. The exhibition runs through Dec. 8. Learn more about the lecture.