Recognized worldwide as the best educational institution in the country, UNAM was inaugurated on September 22, 1910

under the name of the National University of Mexico. This is his story!

It was founded in the 16th century and its first address was located in a building between the streets of Corregidora,
Erasmo Castellanos and Pino Suárez (where the Palace of the Supreme Court of Justice currently stands), in the Historic
Center of the capital.

In 1910, President Porfirio Díaz decreed the formation of the National University of Mexico. However, this happened
until 1929 when Emilio Portes Gil was president. At that time, that campus received the title of National Autonomous
University of Mexico.

Its current headquarters, Ciudad Universitaria (CU), was inaugurated in 1953. Its main buildings are the Rectory Tower,
Humanities Tower II, the Central Library, the Olympic Stadium (home of the Pumas soccer and American football clubs)
and the Science Museum (Universum), among others.

It should be noted that within CU there are the Botanical Garden, the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC)
and the fantastic Nezahualcóyotl concert hall, considered one of the most modern in the world.

University City, more than a campus

The central campus of Ciudad Universitaria is much more than the Maximum House of Studies in Mexico. It is also a
place that brings together important works of urban planning, landscaping and fine arts. Thanks to this, CU has been
worthy of being included in the list of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO since 2007.

It was not until 15 years later, in 1943, that the idea began to materialize, when Rodulfo Brito Foucher, rector of the
UNAM, chose Pedregal de San Ángel as the place where the University City would be built.

During the rectorship of Genaro Fernández McGregor, the University presented to the federal government a proposal for
the Law on the Foundation and Construction of the University City, which was approved by the Congress of the Union on
December 31, 1945, and the following year, The rector Salvador Zubirán managed the acquisition of the required land,
whose area reached 733 hectares, while the President of the Republic, who in that year was Manuel Ávila Camacho,
issued the corresponding expropriation decree, on September 11, 1946.

By the end of the same year, when Miguel Alemán Valdés was already president, the necessary financial resources were
available to continue with the construction plan. A preliminary project competition was organized, to which the National
School of Architecture, the Society of Mexican Architects and the National College of Architects of Mexico were invited.

The proposals of the National School of Architecture, together with those made by the Society of Architects, were
presented before the jury made up of the representative of the rector of the UNAM and the presidents of the National
College of Architects of Mexico and the Society of Mexican Architects , who ruled in favor of the university school
project. Mario Pani and Enrique del Moral were appointed as those in charge of directing the final project.
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