The image and meanings of Mexican Olympic architecture were to a great extent designed for the media, long before the actual buildings were finished and could be experienced in October 1968. Half a century later, most Mexicans still perceive Olympic buildings—and the transformed city around them—through the veil of the image designed in 1968 by architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and his team. This image—and the ideas about the city, architecture, and society which supported them—was most clearly expressed and explained in the numerous books and magazines printed for the Olympics. This exhibition seeks to contribute to the understanding of the development of the mediated culture in which we live today, and the changes in the ways we experience, use and are subject to architecture

Salvador Lizárraga Sánchez and Cristina López Uribe, curators
Maria Luisa Dehesa Gomez Farias Gallery (previously named Jose Luis Benlliure), Ciudad Universitaria UNAM, Mexico City
Opening: February 19, 2020, closed to the public on March 20, 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic
Reopened to the public briefly in December 2021.

Created in 2017, the Laboratory of Architectural Publications (Laboratorio Editorial de Arquitectura, LEA) aims to become a leading research center for the study of the cultural history of information technologies and print media related to the history of architecture and urbanism. Its mission is to promote critical dialogue between journals, books, electronic media and the built environment.​

This exhibition was made posible by the generous support of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

  • UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
  • Enrique Graue Wiechers
  • Rector
  • FACULTAD DE ARQUITECTURA
  • Marcos Mazari Hiriart
  • Director
  • Juan Carlos Hernández White
  • Secretrario General
  • Luis de la Torre Zatarain
  • Secretario Académico
  • Leda Duarte Lagunes
  • Secretaria Administrativa
  • Alejandra González Olvera
  • Coordinadora de Difusión Cultural
  • Fernando Escobedo Pliego
  • Responsable de Exposiciones
  1. 1968 Mexico’s Olympic Architecture and City through Print Media
  1. A project by Laboratorio Editorial de Arquitectura:
    Cristina López Uribe | Salvador Lizárraga Sánchez
  1. Researched, curated, designed and installed by:
  2. Karen Álamo Ávila
  3. Natalia Rello Rosa
  4. Anna García Molina
  5. Shary Ramírez Montero
  6. Bruno Langle Tamayo
  7. Sandra Casillas Gómez
  8. Mariana Bobadilla García
  9. Fernanda Barrera Rubio
  10. Nilda Roldán Bustos
  11. Alice Paola Barrientos Flores
  1. In collaboration with:
  2. Erandi Casanueva Gachuz
  3. William Brinkman Clark
  1. Installation assistance:
  2. Verónica Hernández Rojas
  3. Abril Castrejón Jiménez
  4. Itzel Vera Ortega
  5. Berenice Acosta Rodríguez
  1. Acknowledgements:
  2. Mauricio Tapia Maltos
  3. Hemeroteca Nacional de México
  4. Fonoteca Nacional de México
  5. Filmoteca de la UNAM
  6. Archivo Memoria Cineteca Nacional
  7. Biblioteca Lino Picaseño de la Facultad de Arquitectura
  8. Archivo de Arquitectos Mexicanos de la Facultad de Arquitectura

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