Brutalism in Mexico

Mexican architecture came to concrete monumentality through its own route, fusing modernism with pre-Hispanic massing. From the 1960s onward Teodoro González de León and Abraham Zabludovsky developed a recognizable national style of massive walls in hammered concrete mixed with marble aggregate, seen in public buildings across Mexico City including their remodeled Auditorio Nacional (1991). Agustín Hernández pushed sculptural geometry further, with the futuristic Heroico Colegio Militar (1976) military academy and his own studio cantilevered over a ravine.

Juan Sordo Madaleno contributed elegant corporate modernism, and the Palmas 555 (1975) tower shows the era's confidence in exposed concrete for commercial architecture.