ancient architecture in the mesoamerica teotihuacan 150 b.c. – a.d. 750 teotihuacan, mexico 150...
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Ancient Architecture in the MesoamericaTeotihuacan 150 B.C. – A.D. 750
Teotihuacan, Mexico 150 B.C. – A.D. 750
I. Circumstances surrounding the emergence of the unique city of Teotihuacan
Cuicuilco destroyed by volcano Xitle in 50 BC
Poverty Point, Louisiana 1000 BC
1.
Moon pyramid
Sun pyramid
Avenue
Citadel dwellings
Teotihuacan
I. A. What are the architectural significant features of the city of Teotihuacan?
TeotihuacanI. B. What is the city’s urbanistic plan and orientation?
I. B.
Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan
Khorsabad, Iraq
Ur, IraqPoverty Point
El-Kahun, Egypt
Neolithic England
I. C. How are some features of Teotihuacan unique in Mesoamerica or in comparison to other complex civilizations that experienced an “urban revolution”? 1. Features in A. and B. above2.
Teotihuacan dwelling: Quetzalpapalotl “Palace”
I. C. 1.
Teotihuacan
I. C. 2. Its organizing axis?
Teotihuacan – plaza in front of the Moon Pyramid
I. C. 3. Its open-volume plan?
Teotihuacan
I. C. 2.
Washington DC Mall
open-volume compositions
II. Interpretation: Metropolis w/ Communal Ideology Bound to the Order of Nature
3.
II. A. Political context: What is the evidence that Teotihuacan might have adopted an “integrationist” strategy of governing?
1. urbanistic evidence
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II. A. 2. architectural evidence
Courtyard of an apartment compound typical apartment compound
Principal patio
Principal shrine
II. A. 3. evidence from art works
Storm God elite class (priest-ruler?)
Murals from Teotihuacan
elite class (priest-ruler?)
elite class (priest-ruler?)
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II. B. Number of ways in which Teotihuacan’s design was “bound to the order of nature” or to the cosmosas an expression of its unique communual ideology
Teotihuacan
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II. B. 1. Sun Pyramid
Sun Pyramid Teotihuacan mural
II. B. 2. Moon Pyramid
Moon Pyramid
Moon Pyramid
II. B. 2. the pyramid clarifies and compacts the mountain’s shape
II. A. 2.
Mt. Tetzcotzingo in the Valley of Mexico
Teotihuacan mural
Moon Pyramid
II. B. 3. City plan Teotihuacan
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