The Mayan civilization is one of oldest civilizations the world has ever witnessed, the Mesoamerican civilization is one classic that holds histories that amaze and leave people without a clue about their intelligence and knowledge on many things like astrology, art, and architecture.
Mesoamerican Architecture is one thing to look at their unusual form of architecture, probably they are one of the earliest people who invented the pyramid structure, and still, we don’t have any clue why they preferred the pyramid style rather than any other style.
Even before 2500, they had a wide knowledge of geometry and how to use it in architecture to make the perfect architectural style, still some of their architecture stood as a witness in a collapsed state but were still there to tell their story.
Sculptures are one of the core elements seen in the architectural buildings and temples, even before America became America itself, they created their own society and culture which is what we are reading as histories of the great American continent, in the Mexico region we can witness most of the proof of the civilization.
When it comes to the architecture of the Mayan people like any other civilization that ever lived on earth they had their own style which is also or may be connected with the Egyptians later, one thing which is common in all of the Mayan architecture regardless of their religion and construction they followed the pyramid pattern in all of their buildings which is what the Egyptians too followed.
Architecture Philosophy
Mayans were great believers in a God that they built temples even more than houses, they had a specific pattern of cities like the palace where the leader or the king lived always placed in the center of the city or town in every Mayan city, placing tombs are always placed in the north side.
As there was no technology back then they used materials available in the surroundings of their living, stones were some of the most common materials used in architecture, limestone and sandstone are other such core elements used while constructing, even before thousands of years ago they cut stones and used it to make the perfect shape possible.
Burnt lime is used as a cement to form the base concrete of the building, high curved sculptures are used for exterior purposes, and even today we can see some of the faded and destroyed sculptures in the remaining whatever is left.
Stucco was used as the exterior material and they used bright colors as paints, larger buildings were used as the administrative or official buildings of the civilization even back then they planned an entire city and followed their pattern in each one of them, flat stones were used as a roof for the buildings by placing one after another.
Works to be looked at
If we separate the types of buildings constructed by people we can list out pyramid which is used as temples mostly, ball courts for legal things and all, palaces for the kings, pigeon houses that were built and used for ceremonial purposes limestones that were used to construct pigeon houses.
We can witness most of the Mayan architecture buildings in the Mexican American regions like Uxmal and Itza, Sayil palace is one of the most important architecture to be looked at the three-story building is one fine proof of their art and architecture efficiency, most of the amazing architectures of Mayan civilization can be seen in Itza of Mexican region.
The purpose of every architecture is to display their beliefs and to showcase the culture to the entire world, the Mayan architecture shows us the rich culture and the tradition of the people.
