The Architect · Alejandra · Mexico City
Biblioteca Central UNAM
This proved a university could be its own manifesto. O'Gorman used only colored stones, no paint — the mural will outlast us all. Read it as a wall, not a picture.
Juan O'Gorman sheathed a ten-story book stack in a natural-stone mosaic that tells four eras of Mexican history — the campus's single most photographed structure.
— Alejandra, The Architect
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