Planning the Taj Mahal Mausoleum

How was it designed? Did they use octagons? Yes, they did.

There’s a lot we don’t know about how buildings in Islamic societies were built over the centuries. There are essentially no plan drawings used by builders at the time. What we do have are a some drawings that document what has already been built; not quite the same thing. So, the only thing that can be done is to analyse and deconstruct buildings to s…