Puuc architecture: lime-concrete core with veneer of cut stone
Arquitectura Puuc: núcleo de hormigón de cal con chapa de sillería
- Date
- c. 800 · confidence medium
- Place
- Uxmal, Yucatán, Mexico
- Credited to
- Maya builders of the Puuc style
- Field
- Tools
What it is
Puuc buildings have a rubble-and-lime-mortar core faced with a thin skin of cut stone in prefabricated units, allowing mosaic façades with masks and lattices and large vaulted roofs.
What it led to
- decorated stone-mosaic façades at Uxmal, Kabah and Sayil
- intensive use of lime in kilns and mortar production
- use of chultun cisterns in a river-less region