Thread 17971648

What's the best pre-columbian Americas architectural style?

>>17971648 (OP)
That would be The Alamo

Pretty unoriginal choice but Tenochtitlan really was spectacular and beautiful

>>17971871
Looks like something you would see on the Las Vegas Strip

>>17972152
are you an ai or something

>>17972166
Ever been to Las Vegas? Something is always being torn down and some multi billion dollar casino is in its place in less than a year

>>17971648 (OP)
Although it has its merit we have to agree that building pyramids is the easiest design in architecture: stone over stone and the base is wider.

Nothing to do with the complexity of European cathedrals and monuments.

>>17972423
What does that have to do with Tenochtitlan's architecture? Dead internet theory is seeming more and more possible every day this shit is ridiculous
>>17972426
Thats crazy nigga but this thread isn't about europe its about the pre columbian americas.

Its important to remember that mesoamerican buildings were almost always painted/stucco'd so they were far more colourful in the past. They were very colourful societies in general.

Whatever style you would consider Cahokia to be.

>>17972543
Cahokia style is fairly basic and dull

>>17972543
If you like waddle & daub + mounds you might find the Olmec interesting

>>17971648 (OP)
>What's the best pre-columbian Americas architectural style?

I know you're looking for stone structures or masonry, but I've always been really fond of the uniquely rounded, kind of milk-carton-esque, bark & hide longhouses made by the natives on the east coast.

>>17973189
comfy

>>17972152
in what way

Teotihuacan style is pretty rad

>>17974928
But that's not the Teotihuacan it's the late classic-early postclassic Maya Puuc style from the hills of the same name in the western yucatan peninsula

>>17971648 (OP)
Inca were the best, but Puebloans were kinoest

>>17974928
>>17974984
That being said, it was a pretty cool one indeed

>>17971648 (OP)
Sovl
>>17972451
SOULLESS

>>17975446
>literal deas gray husk
>soul

>>17975446
>literal dead gray husk
>soul

>>17975454
Looks good

Inca architecture was kinda boring-looking compared to the big tall pyramids of Mesoamerica, but seeing a whole city of almost uniform big stone houses must have been an interesting sight in its own unique way.

>>17975464
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>>17975464
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>>17975464
The giant stones are pretty cool. I get the impression that actually walking around in Andean cities probably would have been really nice and their architectural style probably just doesn't translate to pictures well. I prefer Mesoamerica too though. They also had tons of shiny trinkets everywhere decorating things but there was a literal crusade against them that resulted in most being melted down and shipped away.

The chronicles say that the Coricancha was entirely plated with a gold-like mineral. It's a shame we'll never be able to see it as it was before the Spanish replaced the structure with a church.
Nor will the golden Sun that was inside. I read that a viceroy lost it while gambling and now its whereabouts are unknown, but it doesn't sound entirely true.

>>17972426
Very insecure post

>>17975985
>a viceroy lost it while gambling and now its whereabouts are unknown

>>17972451
Every society was colourful until 21st century globohomo, see: millenial beige, millenial grey

>>17975985
Fun fact: when the spanish arrived in Cusco they tried to do their usual practice of deconstructing all of the old buildings and replacing them with new spanish ones. This didnt work because the old Inca buildings were too well built to disassemble, so instead they just build new spanish buildings over them. Then after a few years there was a massive earthquake, and all of the inca architecture was designed with earthquakes in mind but the spanish stuff wasn't, so it all just crumbled and became an inca style city again

>>17971648 (OP)
God that must've been so comfy when it was originally built. The entire region just full of footpaths and local open air markets selling fruit and small game. Probably low crime because you'd get the shit beat out of you and enslaved if you acted up. Mucho sexo with whores because prostitution was legal. Simple life where all government matters are settled by speaking directly to your elders instead of vooooting away the corruption with more vooootes from the voooters.
>uh ackshoaly the sacrificed 6 gorilion people a day o algo chud
who gives a fuck. modern westerners sacrifice children to jewish pedophile elites

>>17975464
Yeah, from seeing the buildings I feel the mesoamericans were doing religionmaxxing while the incans where more practical, the incans where placing the ground to have a cultural renaissance in some decades after

>>17977928
Most of the parts of mesoamerica that the spaniards checked out had pretty low crime and often public government funded police forces. Also if you were a noble you could take multiple wives AND sex slaves.

Sacrifices weren't crazy numerous outside of the Aztec empire and almost exclusively made up of criminals, war captives, or willing participants.

>>17977928
I don't think you understand the sheer level of comfiness we're talking about here. Tenochtitlan was almost certainly the nicest city to live in on the planet at the time. Almost every house had running water but they were still wealthy enough that people would often go and buy BOTTLED SPRING WATER. There were government funded police so crime was extremely low, one of the largest and most diverse markets on the planet, public schools, government funded public sports with travelling teams like a pre modern nfl, advanced sewers and government funded street cleaners (plus just a general cultural tendency towards cleanliness) so it was all extremely clean, spectacularly good irrigation techniques so everyone had tons of food variety available and didn't go hungry, regular giant festivals where the government would give you free liquor, extremely well planned and governed neighborhoods so you can submit complaints and actually be listened to, parks and gardens everywhere, a ZOO AND AQUARIUM with animals from all over the known world, and many more wonderful amenities.

Most of the the time when I tell people this they don't believe me and I don't blame them, but it's all true, you can look it up. Despite the Aztec's reputation for bloodthirstiness and brutality, in terms of treatment of their own people they were probably one of the most humanitarian states in history.