Architect and engineer . TEMPLE OF CHICHEN VIEJO The smaller buildings at Chichen Itza show how really simple the Maya buildings of Yucatancan be and hence how easily adaptable to the temperament prevailing at the present, which istowards PALACE AT SAYIL The type of column can be modified in proportions and used effectively in our own modern colonnades. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ^22^ SEPTEMBER, NINETEEN THIRTY-FIVE other hand, forms the foundation of almostthe entire peninsula of Yucatan, the regionwhere Maya culture still florished at thetime of the Conquest. Purest Maya Art We
Architect and engineer . TEMPLE OF CHICHEN VIEJO The smaller buildings at Chichen Itza show how really simple the Maya buildings of Yucatancan be and hence how easily adaptable to the temperament prevailing at the present, which istowards PALACE AT SAYIL The type of column can be modified in proportions and used effectively in our own modern colonnades. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ^22^ SEPTEMBER, NINETEEN THIRTY-FIVE other hand, forms the foundation of almostthe entire peninsula of Yucatan, the regionwhere Maya culture still florished at thetime of the Conquest. Purest Maya Art We use the buildings of Northern Yuca-tan as our source of information more thanthose of any other region of the Mayaarea. The architecture of this region theo-retically is not pure Maya. The purestMaya art is found in the great cities to thesouth of Yucatan, which includes Palenque,Yaxchilan, Quirigua, Naranjo, Tikal andCopan. The ornamentation in these citieswas strictly symbolic and was mostly donein stucco. Very little of this remains today,due to the destructive powers of the tropicalvegetation. During the sixth and seventhcenturies of our Christian era these citieswere abandoned and new cities foundedand colonized in Yucatan. Some time late
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