Alberca Olímpica Francisco Márquez
Palacio de los Deportes Juan Escutia
Velódromo Olímpico Agustín Melgar
Sala de Armas Fernando Montes de Oca
MÉXICO 68
ARCHITECTURE AND OLYMPICS
With the aim of presenting a modern Mexico, with a rich history and culture that attracted national and foreign tourists, in 1966 the architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez was appointed as president of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games Mexico 68, who had to comply with the promise to develop an infrastructure of urban and architectural quality, with a limited budget. Thus, a program was drawn up for the construction of new Olympic venues that would complement the existing ones, with architectural blueprints granted to the Secretariat of Public Works and independent architects. A recognized group of architects, engineers and foreign and Mexican designers participated in the construction and remodeling of the Olympic venues. Professionals such as Manuel González Rul, Carlos Ortega Viramontes, Agustín Hernández Navarro, Ramón Torres Martínez, Manuel Rossen Morrison, Antonio Recamier Montes, Edmundo Bringas, Eduardo Gutiérrez Bringas and Juan Valverde. In addition to Ignacio Escamilla, Raúl González, Alfonso Múgica, Felix Candela, Enrique Castañeda, Antonio Peyri, Herbert Shuman, Antonio Charlez or Ramírez Vázquez himself, among others, they built and adapted buildings, stadiums, swimming pools and gyms for what they used, in addition of the great technological advances of the time, an enormous ingenuity to solve problems of economic resources. To remember them, we present a minimal selection of these emblematic buildings of Mexico 68.
PUBLICATION: DOMINICAL / EL SOL DE MÉXICO
RESEARCH, 3D MODELS AND FULL INFOGRAPHICS: LUIS CALDERÓN GUERRA
OCTOBER 2019
