The aztec, inca, and maya civilizations all achieved great progress in developing

the arts of architecture

Explanation

art may legitimize itself as an object or an event, architecture dissolves into a blur of buildings. Like houses, skyscrapers, pyramids etc ... you name it. Architecture, under all of its constraints of engineering safety, function, climate responsibility and economy, sometimes transcends to inspire us with ideas in space and light-qualities achieved in the abstract.