Maya Architecture
Title | Maya Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Treister |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780813042466 |
A discussion of Maya buildings through the eyes of an architect.
Maya Art and Architecture
Title | Maya Art and Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Ellen Miller |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-06-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0500204225 |
“In addition to serving as an introduction to Maya art, the book communicates enthusiasm for the art’s aesthetic power and grace.” —Choice Rewritten and updated to include the discoveries and new theories from the past decade and a half, this classic guide to the art of the ancient Maya is now illustrated in color throughout. World expert Mary Miller and her co-author Megan O’Neil take the reader through the visual world of the Maya, explaining how and why they created the paintings, sculpture, and monuments that intrigue and compel people the world over. With an array of new material, including the newly found La Corona panels, Waka’ figurines, and the Dz’ibanche’ staircase; studies of the monuments at Palenque, Zotz, and elsewhere; and paintings discovered in recent years; this new edition will be essential reading for students and scholars—and for travelers to the cities of this mysterious civilization.
Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture
Title | Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen D. Houston |
Publisher | Dumbarton Oaks |
Pages | 588 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780884022541 |
These articles mark a significant stage in the study of Maya architecture and the society that built it. They represent advances in our understandings of the past, point toward avenues for further studies, and note the distance yet to travel in fully appreciating and understanding this ancient American culture and its material remains.
How the Maya Built Their World
Title | How the Maya Built Their World PDF eBook |
Author | Elliot M. Abrams |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2010-06-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0292792387 |
Maya architecture is often described as "massive" and "monumental," but experiments at Copan, Honduras, convinced Elliot Abrams that 300 people could have built one of the large palaces there in only 100 days. In this groundbreaking work, Abrams explicates his theory of architectural energetics, which involves translating structures into volumes of raw and manufactured materials that are then multiplied by the time required for their production and assembly to determine the labor costs of past construction efforts. Applying this method to residential structures of the Late Classic period (A.D. 700-900) at Copan leads Abrams to posit a six-tiered hierarchic social structure of political decision making, ranging from a stratified elite to low-ranking commoners. By comparing the labor costs of construction and other economic activities, he also prompts a reconsideration of the effects of royal construction demands on commoners. How the Maya Built Their World will interest a wide audience in New and Old World anthropology, archaeology, architecture, and engineering.
Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics
Title | Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics PDF eBook |
Author | James Doyle |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 185 |
Release | 2017-03-24 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1107145376 |
This book examines the emergence of political institutions in Maya civilization through studies of landscape, architecture and material culture.
Maya Lin
Title | Maya Lin PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanne Walker Harvey |
Publisher | Henry Holt Books For Young Readers |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2017-05-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1250112494 |
"The bold story of Maya Lin, the artist-architect who designed the Vietnam War Memorial"--
An Album of Maya Architecture
Title | An Album of Maya Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Tatiana Proskouriakoff |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 467 |
Release | 2013-07-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0486317056 |
36 sites from Central America and southern Mexico as they appeared more than a thousand years ago: Temple of the Cross, Palenque; Acropolis and Maya sweat bath, Piedras Negras; more. 95 illustrations.