We identify and explain the aesthetic characteristics of chancay architecture (900-1533 ac), in the understanding that formal elements possess a particular typological expression. This research focuses on the study of the chancay design principles manifested in their buildings or cities, and on the other, on the associated resulting typological elements, or decorative expressions, that give character to space, considering both formal, functional and symbolic levels of analysis. It is interesting to “read” the possible conceptual correspondences between crafts and architecture, as resulting from certain logic of Andean thought, which would express a particular chancay aesthetics.