Architectural Styles
Mayan
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
2000 BCE-1697
- Terracing for agriculture
- ceremonial platforms
- integration with astonomy
- range of residential material
- dependent on hierarchy
- plaster/stucco covering
- brightly painted
- acoustic amplification for ritual music
- city planning with central plaza
- hieroglyphic writing
- symbolic motifs
- water management using cisterns & canals
- sustainable practices
- local materials incl limestone
- TBC
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Custom Hotel Examples
- Step pyramids
- temple complexes
- royal palaces
- prominent ballgame courts
- Step pyramids
- El Castillo at Chichen Itza
- Temple of the Inscriptions at Palenque
- Tikal
- Copán
- Uxmal
- Calakmul
- Zaculeu Mam Kingdom Guatemala
- Mayapan Yucatán Peninsula
- Yaxchilan
- Labna gateway
- Sayil northern Yucatán
- Zacuelu, Guatemala ballcourt
- Rio Bec palace
- Vision Serpent lintel
- Rest houses
- public buildings for traders in urban centres (Tikal, Palenque, and Copán)
- religious ceremonies & pilgrimages
- Mayan codices refer to travel & trade
- early Spanish chroniclers & explorers noted travelers rest places
- way stations along road networks
- rooms in residences
- TBC
Gallery
Adapted Visitor Accommodation