Moroccan architecture for building standards which directly affected the architecture at that time, as follows: The building regulations maintained the country's preexisting architectural features and balanced the rapid urbanization. The Riad also known as Dar is the Moroccan traditional house, which normally has two or more storeys around a courtyard. Villas are larger stand-alone housing in the urbanized area which do not need to follow traditional architectural style. Arches, most often the horseshoe arch are used in almost every aspect of Moroccan housing whether it is doors, entrances, windows or niches. Domes are often integrated with altars or commemorative monuments as well
A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlan display at Benesse House and Art Site, a contemporary art museum and hotel at the art village of Naoshima, Japan. The courtyard inspired a set of drawings, later a series of lithographs and finally the painting. In these works, at first the perspective is conventional, and concentrates on the central well, observing points of view from walking the courtyard. The lithograph, "Hotel Acatlán Two Weeks Later" shows almost all the characteristics of the final work. In the painting the detail of the columns is gone, the painter has vanished, but the viewer is presented with a space where distance is