UNAM - Central University Campus

This campus was designed in 1950 to replace the old buildings downtown that were getting too small and dispersed to accomodate the National University. With a team of 160 of the best architects of the moment, in a few year a complex was built that achieved a harmonic combination of functionalist modern architecture with pre-hispanic landscaping and decoration. Because of its architectural value, the Campus was declared World Heritage site in 2007.

UNAM hosts 31,000 academic staff, and about 300,000 students, and is as such one of the biggest in the world. A lot of famous scientists and politicians have studied in this maximum house of study.

The most remarkable buildings is the Central Library, a huge cubus decorated with 4000 square meters of coloured stone mosaic, representing the history of the country and the university. the Torre de Rectoria, built along the lines proposed by Le Corbusier, is also worthwile: it boasts three murals of David Alfaro Siquieros, one of the most influential Mexican painters from 1930 to 1960.

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