The question of how to draw convincingly from unfamiliar cultural visual traditions is one that comes up in concept art and world-building work regularly.

The wrong approach: picking isolated visual elements from a culture and assembling them without understanding their context or meaning. This produces work that looks like a costume shop version of the culture — recognizable markers assembled without coherent grammar.

The right approach: research the visual logic, not just the visual elements. What are the governing principles of the architecture? What does the decorative vocabulary signify? What are the proportion and symmetry rules? Understanding the grammar lets you design new things in that visual tradition rather than copying existing examples.

The practical research: find primary sources. Museums, academic monographs, photographs from people in the culture. The more direct the source, the better the understanding. Art book compilations often simplify and misrepresent the source material.