Ultimately, studying the chemical composition of ancient architecture can help improve its modern counterpart. Although Maya, Indian, and Roman materials could never be applied to the construction of ...

And recently, researchers uncovered the remains of an ancient Mayan city in the Central American nation of Guatemala that ...

He began spending more time on the West Coast, and during the early 1920s, built five Los Angeles homes in a new and unique style called Mayan Revival, inspired by pre-Columbian architecture.

The ancient Maya also mastered astronomy, mathematics, art and architecture, and a glyph system of writing on stone, ceramics, and bark paper. Using an interactive map, visit 15 of the better ...

Archaeologists in Guatemala have discovered the ruins of a 3,000-year-old Maya city featuring “remarkable” architecture, including pyramids and monuments, that shed more light on the ancient ...

arts entertainment Architecture. New books tell the history of modern architecture Mark Lamster on recent monographs on Mies van der Rohe, Paulo Mendes da Rocha and Architecture Research Office.

Maya architecture and art reflected deep-seated religious beliefs. ... Among them were both human sacrifice and bloodletting—customs that capture modern imaginations. The Maya sport of pitz, ...

“Untimely Moderns: How 20th Century Architecture Reimagined the Past” (Yale University Press), the latest book by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, professor and assistant dean at Yale School of Architecture, ...

Postmodern architecture is a style of building design that emerged in the ’70s and ’80s as a reaction against the dogmas and ideals of modernism and the international style.