Pattern as structure, not decorationEvery tessellation encodes load-bearing logic across the ksar walls. Beauty follows engineering in the M'zab valley, never the reverse.
Craft measured in generationsMaster tile-cutters trained seven years before touching a commission. A single panel could take three months to set by hand.
Repetition creates a language the eye readsA single motif repeated across a facade becomes legible at walking pace — no signage needed, no legend required.
Constraint breeds infinite compositionFive tile shapes, three glaze colors — yet no two panels across the five towns of the M'zab are identical.