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Cette recherche de doctorat est le fruit d'une analyse innovante de l'architecture meso-americaine, et plus precisement de la planification urbaine et du temple mayas. Elle touche aux domaines de l'archeologie, de l'anthropologie, de la symbolique et de la semiologie. L'auteur montre, grace a une documentation extensive, que l'architecture maya repond a un modele d'ordre semantique, ou chaque construction anthropique est realisee selon une codification particuliere respectant la forme du glyphe, creant ainsi un espace urbain
scriptural , et par consequent, hautement symbolique. Cette etude mene non seulement a une nouvelle interpretation de la fonction du temple et a la creation d'un modele de caracterisation des edifices non pyramidaux comme temples, mais egalement, par l'acquisition d'une perspective anthropologique interne, a une relecture des concepts-cles de la cosmologie meso-americaine.
This book, based on the author’s PhD research, is the result of an innovative analysis of Mesoamerican architecture, and especially of the temple and the urban planning concept of Maya ceremonial centres. The study draws on the fields of archaeology, anthropology, symbolic and semiology. The author shows, thanks to an extensive corpus, that Maya architecture responds to a semantic code. In fact, each human construction is built according to a particular glyph-shaped arrangement, creating in this way a ‘writing urban space’, and is, therefore, highly symbolic. This analysis leads not only to a new model for characterising as temples buildings which are not pyramidal, but also, through the acquisition of an internal perspective, to a reinterpretation of some of the key concepts of Mesoamerican cosmology.
