Mayan Revival is a modern architectural style that was popular in the Americas during the 1920s and 1930s. It drew its inspiration from the architecture and iconography of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, adapting Maya and other Mesoamerican forms and motifs for contemporary buildings. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Mayan Revival architecture
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Most works date to the 1920s and 1930s
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His Ennis House, Millard House (La Miniatura), Storer House, and Freeman House in Los Angeles are built in his concrete textile block system, with bas reliefs and modular unit construction evoking the geometric patterning on the façades of Uxmal buildings.
In Group: Nineteenth-Century Revival Styles of North America, Lead paragraph
Mayan Revival is a modern architectural style popular in the Americas during the 1920s and 1930s
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Wikidata Q3933952, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source Hollyhock House - Wikipedia
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Several styles including Mayan Revival architecture
Ennis House - Wikipedia
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Mayan Revival, Textile Block
Storer House (Los Angeles, California) - Wikipedia
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Mayan Revival, Textile Block
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