THE MAYAN ARCHITECTURE
Participants
The workshop
The Workshop "Taller de Arquitectura Maya" invites architecture students and the general public to participate in a week dedicated to the renewal of a Mayan architecture. The event will take place from August 1 to 8 and from August 9 to 16, 2024 in Bécal. The workshop will include a series of talks given by prominent personalities both internationally and nationally. The goal of the workshop is to develop construction skills and renovate a Mayan house over the course of a week. At the end of the workshop, a cultural event will be organized that will include jarana dancing, Mayan poetry recitals and a collective dinner with local inhabitants, thus promoting the reactivation and attractiveness of rural networks in the region.
Doctor in Urban Planning and Development (Paris 8 University), Director of the UMR AUSer mixed research unit brings together the CNRS and four multidisciplinary research teams from the National Schools of Architecture of the Ile-de-France region, within the framework of supervision of the Ministry of Culture.
At Ensa Paris-Belleville since September 2018, she teaches and directs the new chair “Métropoles and Architecture of Major Events” (MAGE-Paris 2024). She taught, as a visiting professor, at the University of Genoa and at the HafenCity Universität in Hamburg, and gave lectures at European and Chinese universities, in Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Dalian.
In 2000 he completed studies at UNAM specializing in Mayan Culture, forming part of the expert group of Traditional ecological knowledge integrated into the State Commission for Environmental Cooperation in which countries such as Canada, the United States of America and Mexico participated.
Nationally and Internationally Recognized Speaker.
She is part of the Constructive Council of the State Human Rights Commission as well as the Advisory Council of the Petenes Biosphere Reserve.
Representative since 2013 of Chilivitos de Becal AC, through said organization, she is developing the project "Native Fruit Nursery for Family Consumption" supported by the United Nations program.
The site
The workshop “Taller de Arquitectura Mayan” was born from revitalization strategies of an indigenous rural area like Becal. The Mayan people are famous for their mastery in making “Jipi” hats, a local plant that requires rigorous production in caves due to humidity levels. However, like most rural areas in the world, the town is emptying, but the inhabitants do everything they can to preserve their traditions and customs. Even today, many of them live in Mayan houses with guano roofs, wooden walls, earth and stone foundations. Neither windows nor air conditioning are necessary, since this bioclimatic architecture, which only has two openings, provides a feeling of comfort throughout the year. In addition to the Mayan houses, the town has a church built in 1570 by the Spanish, remains of Mayan temples and underground freshwater cenotes.
Bécal
Partner
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