The experience of the Mayan architectural heritage and its influence on Architecture

Abstract

This article seeks to raise awareness about the value of preserving the pre-Hispanic Mayan heritage for the
development of art, for which it accounts for the influence that pre-Hispanic art had in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries at a national and international level, and reflects on how the experience and the language of
pre-Hispanic Mayan architecture influenced international architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Jorn Utzon.