ABSTRACT
Construction History may serve as a tool in order to enable architecture and civil engineering students to learn from past experiences. Considering this premise, through the Research Based Learning method and analysis of six iconic high rise buildings designed and constructed in Mexico City along the first half of the 20th century, architecture and civil engineering students will understand how the interrelationships among new materials, structural systems, seismic and soil mechanics (applied in Mexico City’s Building Code) allowed Mexican architects and engineers to construct taller buildings in the city.
“...universities should treat learning as not yet wholly solved problems and hence always in research mode.”— Wilhelm von Humboldt on the future University of Berlin (1810)
