UNAM: Architecture, Murals and the Modern Campus
Ciudad Universitaria was planned as one integrated statement — architecture, murals and open space designed together rather than added on afterward. This walk covers the most legible built expressions of that idea still standing on the original campus, from the stadium’s Rivera relief to the medical school’s Eppens mural.
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Set into the volcanic terrain of Ciudad Universitaria rather than raised above it, the stadium reads from outside as an artificial crater.
The tower acts as an urban marker within Ciudad Universitaria rather than as an isolated office building.
The building brings architecture and muralism together as a single public image.
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Built as a system of connected blocks, workshops and courtyards rather than a single monumental volume, the school's architecture argues for its own teaching model — one where studio space continues directly into the campus's shared open ground instead of stopping at a building line.
The pavilion turns a scientific structure into a construction experiment.
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The building's west facade carries La vida, la muerte, el mestizaje y los cuatro elementos, a monumental glazed-ceramic mural by Francisco Eppens Helguera completed in the early 1950s.