Los jardines nahuas prehispánicos
An edition of Los jardines nahuas prehispánicos (2021)
una introducción desde la perspectiva de la arquitectura del paisaje
By Andrea Berenice Rodríguez Figueroa
Publish Date
2021
Publisher
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Arquitectura
Language
spa
Pages
177
Description:
The work rewrites Mexico's pre-Hispanic past through the garden: from its direct sources, based on the interaction between society and landscape, on the meanings of this interaction and its adaptation to the physical-geographical determinants from a new multidisciplinary approach that takes into account its components, social relations and pre-Hispanic cosmogony with an approach that starts from landscape architecture. Thus, this publication introduces us to the pre-Hispanic garden in the landscape of the Valley of Mexico and states that its location and hydraulic infrastructure are the computers of the landscape that function as a "nuclear attribute" which, under the reading in Nahuatl, are related to Tlaloc in a sense that goes beyond his association as god of rain. The book "aims to expose both the attributes of the pre-Hispanic Nahua garden and its function in the basin of Mexico in the late postclassic, as well as its maintenance and location.".
subjects: Indians of Mexico, Antiquities, Gardens, History, Nahuas, Agriculture, Nahua (Indiens), Antiquités
Places: Mexico, Mexican Plateau, Mexico City, Mexique