Prehispanic Mesoamerican Architecture
Olmos defends the golden ratio presence in a series of olmec heads, the Aztec calendar stone, and in several of Aztec home designs.
Between 1950 and 1960, Manuel Amabilis applied some of the analysis methods of Frederik Macody Lund and Jay Hambidge in several designs of prehispanic buildings, such as El Toloc and La Iglesia de Las Monjas (the Nuns Church), a notable complex of Terminal Classic buildings constructed in the Puuc architectural style at Chichen Itza. According to his studies, their proportions are concretized from a series of polygons, circles and pentagrams inscribed, as Lund found in his studies of Gothic churches. Manuel Amabilis published his studies along with several self-explanatory images of other pre-columbian buildings made with golden ratio proportions in La Arquitectura Precolombina de Mexico. The work was awarded the gold medal and the title of Academico by the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Spain) in the Fiesta de la Raza (Columbus day) of 1929.
The The Castle of Chichen Itza was built by the Maya civilization between the 11th and 13th centuries AD to serve as temple to the god Kukulcan. John Pile defends that its interior layout has golden ratio proportions. He says that the interior walls are placed so that the outer spaces are related to the central chamber by 0.618:1,the golden ratio.
Read more about this topic: List Of Works Designed With The Golden Ratio
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