A common theme among Mayan architecture is their use of astronomy for their placement of buildings. Uxmal is unique in that the entire site sits fourteen degrees off of north. This site could have been chosen as a method to help the studio better understand the "calculated wangle" and how it can be used to create relationship between two seemingly unrelated things (i.e. architecture and astronomy)
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