American architecture
The old American civilizations were the Teotihuacáns. The structures are raised on stone terraces, and huge pyramids dedicated to the sun and moon.
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South America
Inca cities were not the dry places we trek through today; rather, they were alive with the sounds of water pouring
from stone spouts into basins and chuckling down the sides of stairways. Incas left us such unfinished gems as the red porphyry temple at Ollantaytambo near Machu Picchu whose massive walls were assembled like vertical jigsaw puzzles without mortar to hold them together. They also left us the foundations on which the modern city of Cuzco stands today, and the hillside terraces that Peruvian farmers still depend on for their living.
Pre-Incan precision
Symmetry and detailed decoration
were very important to this civilization,
exemplified here at Chan Chan.
