Neo-Mayan style

Although this term refers to the Mayan civilization in South Mexico and Central America , in practice this style is often combined ^[1] with other features of Mesoamerican cultures, in particular with Aztec architecture in central Mexico , represented in the Meshik and Nahua national groups. Despite the difference between the cultural directions, in the Neo-Mexican style their syncretism is manifested, which contradicts historical facts.

The historian Marjorie Ingle calls the source of the style the Paul American Union Building Paul Philippe Crete (1908-1910), which combines many motifs of the indigenous population of America ^[1] : Mayan and Mexican mosaics (often motifs copied from the sculpture in Copan ) , figures on lanterns at the entrance, traditional drawings.

The largest number of Neo-Mayan-style buildings are located in Detroit ( Michigan ) and Merida (Mexico ); they are also found in New York, Houston , Los Angeles , Acapulco , Mexico City , Cancun and Tokyo .

Among the architects who worked in this style, Frank Lloyd Wright is famous. His Hollyhawk house in Los Angeles follows the shape of the Palenque temples, and the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo is the Mesoamerican pyramids . You can also name Ennis House , Millard House ( La Miniatura ), Stores House And Freeman House In Los Angeles with bas-reliefs and geometric patterns on the facades, like on the buildings of Uxmal .

His son, landscape designer and architect Lloyd Wright, led the construction of three of his father's four houses. He independently designed the neo-Mayan house of John Souden in in 1926 in Hollywood .

Wright's student Arata Endo Kоshien Hotel ) built the Kиshien Hotel in the 1930s, which influenced the architecture of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. In 1953, the pyramidal synagogue Beth Sholom was built with a geometric roof.

The best-known example of neo-Mayan architecture is the California Aztec Hotel (1924–1925) by Robert Stacy-Judd . Its facade, interiors and furniture repeat the abstract patterns of Mayan writing mixed with art deco .

Other notable architectural structures:

• 1926 - Aurora Elks Lodge , Illinois ;
• 1927 - Mayan Theater (Los Angeles) Styles O. Clements ;
• 1928 - The Fisher Building In Detroit, by architect Albert Kahn, is adorned with the famous Mayan Silvanus Morley ^[2] .
• 1928-1929 - The Guardian Building By the American architect Wirth Rowland .
• 1929 - United Office Building by architect James A. Johnson in Niagara Falls, New York .
• 1929-1930 - Mayan Theater in Denver .

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  Entrance at 450 Sutter Street, San Francisco

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  Lobby at 450 Sutter Street (1929) by Timothy Pfluger

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  Fisher Building in Detroit, USA

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  Guardian Building in Detroit

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  A fragment in the form of the rain god Chuck at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City

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  Cuculcanob Pavilion in Merida , Mexico

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  Hotel Imperial in Tokyo

• Historicism (architecture)
• Puuk
• Mayan art
• Pueblo (style)
• Cultural appropriation