Frame the doorway of a temple, palace or royal precinct with a second, larger recessed trapezoid, so that the opening steps back in two planes; keep the single jamb for ordinary buildings.
The city as a map of the empire
Settle the lords of every province in a ward of the capital lying on the side of the city toward their own province, so that the city holds the order of the whole empire.
Garcilaso explains that the provincial lords (curacas) had to keep houses in Cuzco and spend part of each year there, and that each built in the ward facing his homeland (east, west, north or south), so that anyone looking at the wards saw the empire laid out in little, with each nation keeping its own dress. It was also a way of holding the lords close to the Inca.
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Divide the city into two halves, Hanan (upper) and Hurin (lower), each with its own lineages, its own shrines and its own place in the rites.
Let the four royal roads to the four quarters of the empire begin in the great square of the capital, so that the city is the centre from which the whole realm is divided.
Surround the great square with the houses of the kings, each opening onto it by a great hall large enough to hold a festival under cover when it rains.
Build every household, palace and temple as a kancha: a rectangular walled enclosure with a single doorway to the street, its single-room houses set against the walls and facing a central court; pair the kanchas back to back to make the blocks of the town.
Cite this page Chris Paton, “The city as a map of the empire”, The Textbook of Architecture, https://textbookofarchitecture.com/rule/garcilaso-city-as-empire. Text, drawings and models licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.