Esoteric Survey

Luis Barragan built some great walls in Mexico.  Luis Barragan  Barragan paid for his own walls at Casa Luis Barragan. Juan O'Gorman Mathais Goeritz Mathais Goeritz and Ricardo Legorreta The Mexican government, through a program led by Diego Rivera, paid American-born artist Isamu Noguchi to build this wall in Mexico City. The mural deals with greedy capitalists and fascism. It was done in the early 1930's and is unfortunately relevant again.   

The Central Library (1952) at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) by Juan O’ Gorman, with Gustavo Saavedra amd Juan Martínez de Velasco. Mario Pani and Enrique del Moral created the UNAM campus  master plan . Over 60 architects were involved in designing the campus.    UNAM was built  on the site of the Xitle volcano, which erupted around 100 AD. Lava rocks from the volcano were used in in the construction. The sprawling campus is monumental in scale--in that cold modernist sort of way. The Rectorate Tower (1952) by Mario Pani, with  Enrique del Moral and Salvador Ortega Mural by   David Alfaro Siqueiros El Pabellón de Rayos Cósmicos (1951) by Félix Candela, with  Jorge González Reyna It was built as a Neutron measurement laboratory. Now it seems more like a hangout. Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) (2008) by Teodoro González de León ...