Definition of eclectic

Eclectic refers to works of architecture and the decorative arts that derive from a wide range of historic styles, the style in each instance being chosen for its deemed appropriateness to local tradition, geography, or culture.

eclectic style // Madrid

Historybite // Mayan architecture

Mayan architecture

The tradition of Maya architecture spans several thousands of years thorough the Mesoamerican. A region that extends approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Mesoamerica map

Simply put,

Mayan architecture is the architecture of the Mesoamerican civilization of the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, and part of Honduras, from the 1st century A.D. to its peak In the 9th century, characterized by magnificent ceremonial centres with temple-pyramids, ritual ball courts, spacious plazas, and palaces with sculptured facades

Definition of Amorphous

Amorphous is an irregularly shaped building that has no easily definable form.

MAD // Ordos Art & City Museum, Gobi desert.

Vernacular // the language of everyday building

The term vernacular refers to the language or dialect of one’s native country, while its use in architecture is concerned with everyday, ordinary buildings rather than their monumental counterparts. Vernacular describes a traditional language of building, usually of unknown authorship, constructed from local materials to suit their native setting, indigenous climate, and specific local needs.

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