Robert Stacy-Judd

Robert Stacy-Judd (1884–1975) was an English architect and author who designed theaters, hotels, and other commercial buildings in the Mayan Revival architecture Style in Great Britain and the United States.

Stacy-Judd's most celebrated Mayan Revival designed building is the Aztec Hotel, focusing on the facades, interiors, and furniture.

When the hotel project was first announced, the word Maya was unknown to the layman.

As a word Aztec was fairly well known, I baptized the hotel with that name, although all the decorative motifs are Maya [2]Works include (with attribution as appears in National Register listing):[3] Stacy-Judd was a friend of the writer T. A. Willard, who published a fanciful account of his travels to Chichen Itza, was extremely influenced by John Lloyd Stephens writings, and perhaps even more so by the illustrations by Frederick Catherwood as presented in their book 'Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán'.

Willard, Stacy-Judd published several popular books on Maya culture that blend fact and fiction.