Juan O’Gorman

artist / architect Juan O’Gorman the National Autonomous University of Mexico library inspired by pre-Colombian animist iconography. Latin American brutalismo made ideologies visible and physical as opposed to their extinct counterparts in the north of England.

It’s enlightening to consider how objects and places occupied the central social roles in practices that expressed and sanctified political authority in the Andes, Amazon, and Mesoamerica. It’s the kind of system that could put ecological practices at the heart of society.