Colour and tradition

At the outset of the twentieth century, as Mexico emerged from a civil war, ¹ the definition of the essence of Mexican identity was a topic central to intellectual discourse. A revision of the discussions among architects during the decades following the war – the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s – reveals a perspective in which architecture was to play a double role, solving social demands while at the same time participating in the definition of Mexican identity.