Mario Pani and Mass Housing Across Mexico City
How Mario Pani's mass-housing model evolved from Centro Urbano Presidente Alemán to Nonoalco-Tlatelolco, across three separate districts.
These three complexes span the full arc of Pani’s mass-housing model, from its first large-scale test to its most ambitious version — but they sit in three different parts of the city, so this is a tour by metro or taxi, not a walk.
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- Centro Urbano Presidente AlemánMario Pani and Salvador Ortega Flores
The housing complex concentrates a large number of apartments in tall, folded blocks while leaving much of the ground open.
- Centro Urbano Presidente JuárezMario Pani and Salvador Ortega Flores
A more ambitious continuation of Pani's experiments with collective housing.
- Conjunto Urbano Nonoalco-TlatelolcoMario Pani
Tlatelolco attempted to build a complete modern city through housing towers, schools, services, plazas and pedestrian space.