LEA ́s exhibition supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts | 2020-2022

The image and meanings of Mexican Olympic architecture were to a great extent designed for media, long before the actual buildings were finished and could be experienced in October 1968. Half a century later, most Mexicans still perceive Olympic buildings—and the transformed city around them—through the veil of the image designed in 1968 by architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and his team. This image—and the ideas about the city, architecture, and society which supported them—was most clearly expressed and explained in the numerous books and magazines printed for the Olympics. This exhibition we seeks to contribute to the understanding of the development of the mediated culture in which we live today, and the changes in the ways we experience, use and are subject to architecture.