künstler/in: Francisco Eppens Helgueratitel: La vida. La muerte. El mestizaje. Los cuatro elementosjahr: 1953–54adresse: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM, Facultad de medicina, fachada poniente, ciudad universitaria, Coyoacán, México D.F.

kommentar:

• The debates of plastic integration, modern architecture, and the development of new city forms come to the forefront in two major universities: the UNAM in Mexico City and the Universidad central in Caracas, Venezuela. The first exemplifies figurative, legible, and socially conscious art; the second, abstraction.», in: Carranza / Lara, 2014, p. 166 (dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch)

  «[…] The School of Medicine (Roberto Alvarez Espinoza, Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, and Ramón Torres) reflects influences of Dutch functionalists like Jan Duiker with its expression of the structure and how the programmatic volumes hang from it, its circulation ramps linking the classroom block with the administrative and library volume, and its thin brise-soleil fins on its façade. Covering the auditorium-shaped classroom mass and serving as a visual connector to the humanities section of the campus is Francisco Eppens's Fire, Earth, Air and Water: Life and Death, a glass mosaic mural of pre-Hispanic motifs and symbolism.»