Architettura e urbanistica Maya

In questo volume sono raccolti i contributi più significativi e pertinenti al campo della conoscenza, conservazione e valorizzazione del patrimonio architettonico di interesse archeologico tra quelli presentati durante la giornata di studio internazionale “La ricerca nell’Architettura Centroamericana” che si è tenuta a Firenze nel giugno del 20152, in grado di rendere palese, sia per i relatori che vi hanno preso parte sia per la sede scelta per l’evento, l’interesse che mostra una parte della comunità scientifica italiana verso le tematiche legate alla cultura materiale delle civiltà precolombiane dell’America Centrale / The idea for a monographic number of the journal RA originated (monographs address from time to time themes that are well defined in terms of their specific working field, temporal framework and author or authors of reference): this first volume collects the most significant contributions relevant to the fields involving the knowledge, conservation and valorisation of the architectural heritage of archaeological significance, among those presented during the international work day on “Research on Central American Architecture”, which took place in Florence in June, 20152, capable of making evident, both due to the presence of Italian authors and to the venue chosen for the event, the interest that part of the Italian scientific community shows toward the themes related to the material culture of Pre-Columbian civilisations in Central America. The publication is also emarkable for having collected in a single corpus certain studies on architecture and the city – carried out by architects within wider research groups – which generally find little space in journals specialised in archaeology.