Mario Pani

He was one of the most active urbanists under the Mexican Miracle, and gave form to a good part of the urban appearance of Mexico City, with emblematic buildings (nowadays characteristic of Mexico City), such as the main campus of the UNAM, the Unidad Habitacional Nonoalco-Tlatelolco (following Le Corbusier's urban principles), the Normal School of Teachers (Mexico), the National Conservatory of Music and other big housing projects called multifamiliares.

Mario Pani Darqui was born on March 29, 1911, in Mexico City,[1] and moved to Europe in early childhood.

[1] Pani attended the Marist College, a Marist Brothers Catholic school in Genoa, Italy for three years (now Istituto Champagnat, Genoa); followed study at San Carlo College (Collegio San Carlo) in Milan, Italy; and the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly secondary school in Paris for four years.

[1] Pani continued his education at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris for six years.

[2] He introduced the International Style in Mexico, and was the first promoter of big housing Tower block projects.