page_title: Mayan Revival architecture
section_title: Mayan Revivalism in the Art Deco period
hierarchical_section_title: Mayan Revival architecture / Mayan Revivalism in the Art Deco period
caption_attribution_description: English: The famous Fisher Building in Detroit, home to one of the first radio stations in United States, WJR, and to the headquarters of Detroit Public Schools. Español: El Fisher Building, la sede de las Escuelas Públicas de Detroit
context_page_description: The Mayan Revival is a modern architectural style, primarily of the 1920s and 1930s in the Americas, that drew inspiration from the architecture and iconography of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures.
context_section_description: Several prominent architects worked in this style, including Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright's Hollyhock House on Olive Hill in Los Angeles copied the shape of temples from Palenque and the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was in the shape of a Mesoamerican pyramid. 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.
  Wright's son, landscape architect and architect Lloyd Wright, served as construction manager for three of his father's four textile block houses.  He independently designed the iconic Mayan-modernist John Sowden House in 1926 in the Los Feliz District of Hollywood.
  Wright's disciple Arata Endo constructed the Kōshien Hotel in the 1930s, heavily influenced by the architecture of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.
  Commissioned much later in 1953, the massive pyramid of Beth Sholom Synagogue with its geometric roof detailing is perhaps the most direct Wright evocation of Maya form.
caption: The Fisher Building in Detroit
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