The arrival of functionalism in Mexico represented an ideológical disposition about the discovery of national identity and the search for a architectural lenguaje. The twentieth century marked a generation of architects that refers to a characteristic architecture in Mexico who sought to solve the needs to social reality. Today, in the twenty-first century, will the future approach to architecture to be a benchmark as it was functionalism at the time? This essay breaks down the context of functionalism in Mexico, putting it in counterpoint with the current approach of the three main schools of architecture, that emerged during the twentieth century, in order to deduce the future of Mexican architecture from its roots in the academic field.
