On the centenary of his birth, and 10 years after his death, Al habla… dedicates an episode to the architect Teodoro González de León. Through concrete, one of his favorite materials, González de León’s legacy stands tall in the form of majestic buildings on the streets throughout Mexico. “His architecture gave a lot of dignity to many of the spaces of the Mexican State,” explain his professional colleagues Felipe Leal and Mauricio Rocha in the conversation, who also praise his “clarity and a reading of the history of pre-Hispanic culture.”
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The Guanajuato congress, the Tomás Garrido Canabal park in Villahermosa, the Colegio de México and, above all, the National Auditorium, are some of the works the architect sculpted. In this episode broadcast in May, Gabriela Warkentin explores how González de León’s buildings allowed Mexico to reclaim public space.
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