North Wall: It is dedicated to the pre -Hispanic stage of Mexico. Elements such as the sun and the moon, life and death summarize the duality of some cultures of this period. In addition, or 'Gorman made sure to investigate in the link that some deities such as Quetzalcoatl, Tlaloc and Huitzilopochtli maintained with life.
South wall: Again the duality, the confrontation of ideas and the conquest and the implications it had for Mexico are addressed on this side. Two circles summarize the opposite ideas of Tolleo and Copernicus as a reflection of the duality and the revolution of ideas. At the same time two visions of the conquest are confronted. On the one hand the positive aspects that the arrival of the Spaniards had and on the other, the negative effects that it supposed for national culture.
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EAST WALL: The evolution of thought is the thematic axis of this facet where the duality of contemporary world-world life is faced. Elements of the socialist movement such as the Red Star coexist with figures such as Emiliano Zapata. The progressive movement culminates with the atom, a representative symbol of this evolution.
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West: O'Gorman dedicated the latter to the exaltation of the UNAM and what represented the development of the architectural complex. In this face of the Mura the national cultural, scientific knowledge, sports and student life is summarized
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