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Identifier: architectenginee11534sanf (find matches)
Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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Impressions UnsatisfyingThe first impressions of Maya architec-tural form and decoration may show littleof value as motifs for the creation of a newstyle; more especially when considering theadaptation of these motifs to modernAmerican conditions. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ^ 35 ► NOVEMBER, NINETEEN THIRTY-THREE However, after carefully dissecting thecomposite whole, classifying and tracingback each motif to its original form, avastly different aspect unfolds. New andinspiring motifs are revealed at each step. For example, from the lines of the so-called typical Maya arch I took the motiffor the mass outline of the cupolo sur-mounting the tower in the Paramount indicated on Plate 1 ) the following ex-amples are given: Development of the ColumnOn Plate 2, Fig. A is seen a rough sketchof a primitive Maya hut design. It will benoted that the walls consist of saplingsplaced in close juxtaposition supportingthe roof. Fig. B indicates a binding methodcmploNcd Inter. The sapling walls were
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EL CASA BLANCA, CHICH1-:N Il/.A. YUCATAN. AN ANCIENT MAYA RESIDENCERestored by the Carnegie Institute Group. Again, the horizontal lines of thewide and high, continuous Maya staircasesprovided the motif for the vertical lines forthe Ventura church and the chapel atIxtapalapi. (Seepages 16, 17, 1st article.)In designing their stone structures theGreeks and Romans frankly used motifsfrom the construction details of the woodenprototype. To a certain extent the Mayasfollowed similar lines in architectural orna-ment. In other words the stage of ordinaryconventionalism remained. To explain howthe Mayas conventionalised art motifs (asdistinguished from pure abstract design. bound together, top, middle and bottom,probably with a vine or henequen rope. Fig.C shows a detail of the binding with theaddition of a wrapping around each sap-ling under the binding. This wrapping waspossibly of bark and intended to protectthe saplings at the binding line. Fig. Eshows how the last motif was conventional

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  • bookid:architectenginee11534sanf
  • bookyear:1905
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Architecture
  • booksubject:Building
  • bookpublisher:San_Francisco___Architect_and_Engineer__Inc
  • bookcontributor:San_Francisco_Public_Library
  • booksponsor:San_Francisco_Public_Library
  • bookleafnumber:109
  • bookcollection:sanfranciscopubliclibrary
  • bookcollection:americana
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