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Exotic-Architecture

Although exotic arts have long been appreciated in the Western world-mot, however, without being cautiously dubbed “primitive” – exotic architecture (the word exotic is here used in its original meaning, alien) has evoked no response, and is still relegated to the pages of geographic and anthropological magazines. Indeed, apart from a few regional studies and scattered noted, no literature exists on the subject. Lately though, ever since the art of traveling has suffered conversion into an industry, the charms of “picture-postcard towns” and the “popular” architecture of “fairy-tale countries” have proved of considerable attraction. Still, our attitude is plainly condescending. Tatiana Proskouriakoff’s Album of Maya architecture aroused the public and scholars alike to imagine ancient America and to investigate its past. Then, however, the investigations, though the lure of the exotic was perhaps just as enticing to Proskouriakoff’s generation.    

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