Mitla, Mexico. The most important site of the Zapotec people, and later the Mixtecs. Each unit of the mosaic is a separate stone, and they are held together only by the weight of the surrounding stones.
Mitla was inhabited apx 2000 years ago. The European invaders fucked it up, of course.
Federation Square (2002), a building complex in Melbourne, Australia by Charles Radin and John Conway. It features pinwheel aperiodic tiling – the first known non-periodic tilings to each have the property that their tiles appear in infinitely many orientations. Via.
Tessellations from the Alhambra, a palace and fortress complex located in Granada (Spain). It was constructed during the mid 10th century by the Berber ruler Badis ben Habus of the Kingdom of Granada in al-Andalus.
