Advisor: Prof. Omar Amireh

Abstract:
The desert palaces in eastern Jordan present a reasonable part of the architectural monuments that was built by the Umayyad density. These palaces still exist and form part of the history of a period that we don't have enough literature that dates to that time.

So this study is an attempt to investigate the architectural methodology and the geometrical system which applies to the design and construction of palaces morphology and the spatial arrangements of the architectural elements.

To achieve that goal the thesis follows a historic method to study the Umayyad period and its achievement, the study focused on the palaces of the Jordan desert and chose a range of examples that cover most of the Umayyad period. The material was analyzed historically and architecturally to recognize the major characteristic of the monuments, therefore to establish a link with the preceding civilizations in what we called the historical reference. Another type of analysis was conducted through the study of geometrical analysis in order to reveal the unseen relation that follows the ˆ2.

The finding and conclusion of the study of the historical reference can be linked to the Byzantine and Persian architecture especially the use of the square from which can be found in their military architecture and the type of houses of the domestic architecture. On the design level the study concluded that the selected examples follow the ˆ2 which occurred repeatedly at a defined order.