Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. What is culture? In today’s globalized world, we are ...

Show the average Westerner a page of abstract Arabic calligraphy and he’ll see nothing but squiggly lines. Show the same page to a devout Muslim and – literate or not – he may see the Word of God.

Islamic geometric patterns and architecture represent a profound synthesis of mathematical precision and artistic expression inherent in centuries of cultural heritage. These patterns are not merely ...

Shahzia Sikander is one of the contemporary art world's most celebrated stars. She's projecting her hypnotic video installations onto Times Square billboards; she's led exhibitions at major art ...

In 1961, a year before designing the World Trade Center towers, American architect Minoru Yamasaki completed a much smaller project that would influence the look of his new creation in New York City.

In stretches of intricate tiling on several 500-year-old Islamic buildings, Peter Lu and Paul Steinhardt wrote, they'd spotted a large fragment of a mathematical pattern that was unknown to Western ...

Patterning and periodic structures are very important in physics. This led to a tremendous amount of work on learning what shapes can tile an area or fill a volume. It was found that these shapes must ...

A spandrel of the Darb-i Imam shrine in Isfahan, Iran (Courtesy Photo) February 28, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Two U.S. scientists who have studied the intricate and colorful designs adorning the walls of ...