The Mexican Revolution It was, as his name says, a radical change in the country in which the ideas of the Porfiriato questioned themselves. Porfirio Díaz He had managed to coordinate the extension of the city and the construction of emblematic architectural pieces thanks to the Minister of Finance José Yves Limantour, the Director General of Public Works and the President of the Higher Health Council.
For 20 years in which Limantour accompanied Porfirio Díazpublic works applied the neoclassical techniques of urban planning (straight lines, symmetry, homogeneity, location of poles), an example of this is Paseo de la Reforma. The city grew, extended, new colonies were created west and south; However, later with the Mexican Revolution, Many of the works stopped, such is the case of the Legislative Palace and the Palace of Fine Arts,
In the period after the Mexican RevolutionA sought an architectural and artistic vision that would encourage the union of citizens through education. As an example, the muralist program developed by the Secretary of Public Education, José Vasconcelosso various theorists call this stage a «Mexican Renaissance”
On the other hand, in 1925 the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts was carried out in Paris and the Art Decóso this movement had a lot of influence on the architecture of the time: vertical and geometric massifs, giving a new contemporary style to Mexico.
Thus, new buildings were born or redefined that we listed here.
As part of the celebrations to commemorate the centenary of independence, Porfirio Díaz He proposed the creation of a Legislative Palace that was the headquarters of the Chambers of Deputies and Senators. This construction was in an imaginary straight line with the National Palace.