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title: "Tlatelolco: Modern Utopia and Rupture"
description: "How Mario Pani tried to build a complete modern city on one site — and how the 1968 massacre and 1985 earthquake became inseparable from that architecture's own story."
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# Tlatelolco: Modern Utopia and Rupture

How Mario Pani tried to build a complete modern city on one site — and how the 1968 massacre and 1985 earthquake became inseparable from that architecture's own story.

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## Stops

- [Torre Insignia](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/torre-insignia) — Mario Pani
- [Conjunto Urbano Nonoalco-Tlatelolco](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/conjunto-urbano-nonoalco-tlatelolco) — Mario Pani
- [Edificio Chihuahua](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/edificio-chihuahua) — Mario Pani and Ricardo de Robina
- [Plaza de las Tres Culturas](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/plaza-de-las-tres-culturas) — Mario Pani
- [Iglesia de Santiago Tlatelolco](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/iglesia-de-santiago-tlatelolco) — Mathias Goeritz and Ricardo de Robina
- [Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco](https://fondomoderno.com/buildings/centro-cultural-universitario-tlatelolco) — Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and Rafael Mijares